Issues with Body Image after Child Abuse

On my blog entry entitled Battling Self Hate after Child Abuse, a reader posted the following comment: By the way, on a related note, can you write a post about body image after child abuse? I have terrible issues with body image, some stemming from the fact that I have DID (so my alters are [...]

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Can Creating New Alter Parts be a Healthy Thing?

On my blog entry entitled Can an Adult Create an Alter Part?, a reader posted the following comment: But other than to create a helper part or to survive the unbearable, not sure why you’d want to create more parts. Think the only way to really heal is to accept everything that happened and really [...]

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Being Nice to Yourself

On my blog entry entitled Passed the 30-Day Mark with Eating Disorder!, a reader posted the following comment: I was wondering do you struggle to do anything for yourself as a treat? Today I was at the hairdressers and nearly had to leave I felt so evil for trying to make myself look nice and [...]

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What is Normal Memory from Childhood for Trauma Survivors?

On my blog entry entitled “I Don’t Know If I Have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)”, a reader posted the following comment: Do any of you readers or Faith have this experience that you initially did not remember your trauma because it was at too young an age? When I ask non-survivors about their memories before [...]

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Focusing on Something Other Than Healing

I think I have shared before that I am starting a new job. This is a part-time teaching job that I am excited about. The job is part teaching and part coaching, encouraging students to believe in themselves to be successful as they face the next milestone to their dream job. The training for the [...]

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On Spring Break This Week

Hi, everyone! I am going to take the week off for Spring Break while my family heads to the beach. I’ll try to check in on the comments when I can, but I won’t be writing any blog entries this week. I’ll start back on April 25. ~ Faith Photo credit: Lynda Bernhardt

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“I Don’t Know If I Have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)”

On my blog entry entitled How to Move Past Betrayal by a Mother Figure, a reader posted the following comment: I have read and read and read… about this whole “alter” thing and it still confuses me. I read the book Sybil, and I have watched videos of people with MPD changing into someone else. [...]

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Passed the 30-Day Mark with Eating Disorder!

I have written before about reading Geneen Roth’s book Women Food and God. Her book does an excellent job of taking something very complicated (binge eating disorder) and making is simple. As I say repeatedly on this blog, “simple” is not the same thing as “easy.” I had a little success with her methods but [...]

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Can an Adult Create an Alter Part?

On my blog entry entitled How to Move Past Betrayal by a Mother Figure, a reader posted the following question: Question: Are you able to create an alter part as an adult? I’ve never been diagnosed as DID, only have severe PTSD….am I able to create an alter “good mother” part to help comfort me [...]

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Religious Fanaticism as Part of Child Abuse

*** possible religious triggers *** I am reading the book The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff for my Book Club and really enjoying it. The book is about the polygamy in the Church of the Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) and has two storylines. The first storyline takes place in the present day in a [...]

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