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Trigger Warning: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in each episode. Please use appropriate self-care and your own safety plan while exploring this website and during your listening experience. Natural pauses due to dissociation have not been edited out of the podcast, and have been left for authenticity. While some professional material may be referenced for educational purposes, Emma and her system are not your therapist nor offering professional advice. Any informational material shared or referenced is simply part of our own learning process, and not guaranteed to be the latest research or best method for you. Please contact your therapist or nearest emergency room in case of any emergency. This website does not provide any medical, mental health, or social support services.
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Our guest shares their lived experience of integration. They explain how integration and plurality are not exclusive. They share the impact of learning to love themselves. Content note: there is a trigger warning for topic of natural integration (not in context of treatment goals) and a passing reference to suicidality (no details or discussion).
Molly shares an article she read. Content note and trigger warning for reference to religious abuse and scripture stories. She calls for a hard look at ourselves, reminding us we play all the roles in stories and in dreams (Jungian Therapy). She shares bits of an article that reference the Good Samaritan story, and challenges us to apply that both internally and externally in our relationships.
Lost Episode
Kim is back because she had the ovaries to ask a really good question. She discusses her experiences trying to support a loved one with DID. She asks us if what happened with our previous Kelly (therapist) could have just been a misunderstanding. We share our journey of how hard it was and how long it took to actually connect the birthday part experience to what happened when we were little. Content note includes a trigger warning for reference to relational trauma. There is also passing reference to foster care, grief, and Littles.
Kim is back because she had the ovaries to ask a really good question. She discusses her experiences trying to support a loved one with DID. She asks us if what happened with our previous Kelly (therapist) could have just been a misunderstanding. We share our journey of how hard it was and how long it took to actually connect the birthday part experience to what happened when we were little. Content note includes a trigger warning for reference to relational trauma. There is also passing reference to child exploitation/ pornography, but only in passing and not in detail and no disclosures made.
We read and respond to listener emails.
We share our experience going to the doctor for our annual checkup, and discuss other routine care appointments. Trigger warning for discussion of obgyn, annual women’s exams, mammograms, and other routine care such as dentists and eye doctors, as well as discussion of triggers and reference to big feelings in response to those triggers.
We share our experience going to the doctor for our annual checkup, and discuss other routine care appointments. Trigger warning for discussion of obgyn, annual women’s exams, mammograms, and other routine care such as dentists and eye doctors, as well as discussion of triggers and reference to big feelings in response to those triggers.
Our guest is Dr. Joan Turkus, who shares her pioneer history in the field of traumatology. She explains her perspective of trauma and dissociation, including clarifying the importance of the DSM despite its limitations. We discuss psychodynamic and relational approaches to the trauma framework. She shares some of her thoughts about the more pragmatic aspects of advocating for survivors in treatments.
Lost Episode
Our guest shares their experience with Ketamine, MDMA, and therapeutic ruptures. We discuss the devastation from such ruptures. She shares the experience of a therapist as a surrogate mother, and we discuss the impact of those dual relationships. She explains why it doesn’t work and the disenfranchised grief it causes. We explore what healing from these experiences might look like.
Lost Episode
Our guest shares her experience of having to file a complaint against a therapist. She explains the chooses and process for how to do so, and identifies TELL as a resource. She shares her experience with the legal system. We discuss the big feelings resultant from therapy violations.
We continue our discussion with Kirsten Stach. Trigger warning for discussion of historical trauma.
Our guest this week for two-part episodes is Kirsten Stach, MA, Dipl, MIACI. We discussed trauma and dissociation. We explore the neutralizing of shame through cognitive understanding of the brain and how it works. She applies compassion to survivors, distinguishing what they have endured from the label of a diagnosis. (Part 1 of 2).
Lost Episode
We read and respond to emails, letters, and packages. Trigger warning for an email that asks about therapy ruptures and to which we struggle to respond about friendships and relational trauma and therapy ruptures.
We share a dream we had, and what we learned from it in therapy. Trigger warning for discussion of Littles and early neglect and developmental trauma, but no details or in-depth disclosures.
We share what we learned from a workshop by Dolores Mosquera about working with parts. We share what she explained about why trust can be such an issue even when there is a solid therapeutic alliance in therapy. We redefine the “Adult Self” based on her definition of “emerging and not yet defined”. We discuss ideas for increasing awareness and cooperation. Trigger warning for passing reference to parents as abusers, but no details or disclosures.
We read and respond to listener emails.
Lost Episode
Our guest this week is Jackie Burke, PhD, from Australia. She is working on policy and legislation and with organizations and agencies regarding vicarious trauma. She differentiates between vicarious trauma and counter-transference, and normalizes it as happening to anyone exposed to the trauma of others. She gives practical applications for organizations and agencies to empower workers to be human and cared for as humans.
The Nestor System is our guest this week! They share their lives experience with dissociation, including growing up in a family of medical trauma. They also discuss the intersectionality of autism. They introduce the System Speak resource list, and explain how it is specifically from a lived experience perspective.
The Nestor System is our guest this week! They share their lives experience with dissociation, including growing up in a family of medical trauma. They also discuss the intersectionality of autism. They introduce the System Speak resource list, and explain how it is specifically from a lived experience perspective.
We read and respond to listener emails.
We share a therapy update about how we are learning to orient ourselves to time. We explain how and why we added “Kelly Time” and “Pandemic Time” to the list with Memory Time and now time. I talk about why “Now Time” changed to “New Now Time”.