The Importance of Self-Love
The topic of self-love often makes survivors cringe as they cannot seem to understand that it is okay to love oneself. Self-love is one of the most important things you can do to overcome the negative effects of dissociative identity disorder (DID). In this article together we will...
Showing Yourself Acceptance and Compassion
Accepting oneself with all your flaws is part of being mentally healthy. However, often survivors are their own worst critics picking themselves apart and holding themselves back from experiencing life to the fullest. This article will focus on self-compassion and how to become more self-accepting. A Refresher:...
Defeating Complex Trauma with Self-compassion
No one is harder on a survivor of complex trauma than the survivor. Survivors feel they are a burden, are unable to have a voice for themselves, or feel shame. Also, survivors often lack trust in who they are and believe no one is trustworthy. This article will...
Self-Advocacy: Self-Care in Trying Times
Since September is suicide awareness month, learning about self-advocacy is the basis of all healing from complex trauma and defeating suicidal ideation in oneself and dealing with it in others. When you stand up for yourself and meet your needs, it is easier to meet life on life’s terms...
The Worst Enemies That Multiples Face
I wanted to write a personal post today about two enemies of multiples that all of us know about, but we tend not to speak about them; denial, and self-doubt. Let’s look at this subject and I’ll enclose some firsthand experiences with denial and self-doubt to show you that...