Archive for Child Abuse

Jennifer’s Struggle to Parent with DID

October 27, 2011 / admin / No comments

In this blog post Jennifer Roeder tells her story of not only being a single parent, but having to do this with a Dissociative Identity Disorder. DID was previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder and results from extreme early childhood abuse. The rest of us can only imagine the challenge DID would present in trying to parent a growing girl. Jennifer has the courage and the smarts to seek help in her parenting. She would like to hear from others who have similar experiences. If you have something to offer Jennifer, please comment below.  Read more

Category: Child Abuse, Child Sexual Abuse, Dissociative Identity Disorder /

Vivian Treadwell Shares Her Story

October 21, 2011 / admin / 8 comments

MY LIFE  STORY: SHORT VERSION OF ABUSES AND DREAMS by Vivian Treadwell

The stories you post on your website remind me all to well of mine and my siblings childhoods, sadly, this has taken a huge toll on our family cohesion, it has taken away who we all could have been, our self esteem (if there ever was any in the first place), our joy; i had to deal with bullies at school and then come home to verbal, emotion, physical, and sexual abuses, i’m not discounting any of my siblings here.

Life has been very difficult for me to face, most of my life i hid myself away from most humans because my mind just couldn’t handle facing the possibility of any more abuse coming my way. Read more

Category: Child Abuse, Child Sexual Abuse, Dissociative Identity Disorder /

Repressed Memories—How Can They be True?

August 18, 2011 / admin / No comments

In this blog post Jane Rowan and I compare notes on recovering our lost memories of child sexual abuse. Jane is the author of The River of Forgetting.

Mary: It’s exciting to begin this dialogue with you about our experiences with incest and our paths to healing. We have much in common, along with many differences. We were both successful professionals getting on with our lives (mine as a psychotherapist, yours as a scientist and college teacher) before our memories of incest surfaced.

Let’s start with topic of repressed memories, which is very controversial in some circles. Why were our memories hidden and forgotten for so long? Read more

Category: Child Abuse, Child Sexual Abuse, Incest, Traumatic Memories /

Childhood Trauma: Your Body Can Bear the Burden

August 4, 2011 / admin / One comment

The Body Bears the Burden is the title of neurologist Dr. Robert C. Scaer’s book about trauma and chronic pain. For 20 years Dr. Scaer was the director of a multi-disciplinary programme for treating chronic pain. Physicians referred patients they were unable to help to his service. Many who were on huge doses of narcotics were still in pain despite the medication.

A number of factors caused Dr. Scaer to be curious. Read more

Category: Child Abuse, Dissociation, Trauma Therapy, Traumatic Memories /

Releasing Physical Manifestations of Childhood Trauma Through Mind-Body Therapy

July 24, 2011 / admin / No comments

My psychological mentor, Dr. Eugene Gendlin, first drew my attention by saying that change doesn’t happen unless it happens in the body. As a yoga teacher, I knew this was true. That’s when I began to study Focusing with him. Focusing, as you know, is a sort of inner yoga.

One of the physical ways of releasing trauma held in the body is described below by guest blogger Ramona Ng. Here is what she has to say about her approach to the body. Read more

Category: Child Abuse, Guest Blogger, Trauma Therapy, Traumatic Memories /
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