I am the author of 'Becoming One: A Story Of Triumph Over Multiple Personality Disorder', and have maintained an online presence since 1993. Each Friday, I post 'Best Tweets for Trauma and PTSD Survivors', an annotated compilation of links tweeted in the previous week. I also maintain the Dissociation Blog Showcase, an index of ~180 blogs which discuss dissociation primarily from a personal experience perspective. Having survived a violent, secretive childhood, I know the craving for security, love, and hope that is so often missing in adult survivors' lives. I understand feeling crazy and continually misunderstood. I also know how hard it is to find help to move beyond the pain and daily challenges of trying to put a different life together. What I've learned over many years is that there is always hope. Always. My premise is that 'becoming one' is an ongoing process that is always coming into shape and focus. And it always requires diligence, honesty, and integrity to make it real. It's a journey that does not have to be done alone, either. There are hundreds of great resources for trauma survivors and their supporters, many of them organized by category on my website. Be proactive, and be your own best advocate.
Author's posts
Jan 08 2010
Favorite TweetStuff (week ending 1/8/10)
These tweets make me pause to consider meaning, and to appreciate beauty and the wonder of our world around us. Always inspiring. @petapixel Beautiful photographs of Australia welcoming 2010 @MysticFlower14: TO My Twitter Followers: May peace break into your home and may thieves come to steal your debts @dragonheartsong Wow! They really ARE amazing. RT …
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Jan 03 2010
Two Blogs Added to DBS
Every Sunday night, if there are updates made to the Dissociation Blog Showcase (DBS), I will post them here. Tonight, I’ve added two new blogs: Confessions of a Serial Insomniac MANY OF US’S PUBLIC BLOG Please use the DBS link above to access these blogs, and take a look at others already on the list. …
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Dec 31 2009
Best Tweets For Trauma Survivors at Year End
Best Tweets For Trauma Survivors is another new regular feature (in addition to Favorite Tweetstuff, posted yesterday). I am setting up the mechanism by which I can more efficiently collect tweets for inclusion, and will source from a wider sampling than I present here in my first Best Tweets post. My selections are entirely subjective, …
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Dec 30 2009
Favorite TweetStuff At Year End
I’ll be making a Favorite TweetStuff post monthly going forward. I Favorite tweets that speak to me, and sometimes that I speak back to! Not necessarily related to mental health, but always inspiring. Feel free to add any tweets which are meaningful to you in the comments. (My rally cry, and also my first tweet) …
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Dec 11 2009
"Mind Over Body Phenomenon in MPD"
I just found this YouTube video entitled “Mind Over Body Phenomenon in Multiple Personality Disorder”, made by Dr. Laura De Giorgio of Deep Trance Now. It’s fascinating, and I already live most of this stuff. It offers a few well-known names in the field to corroborate certain claims of phenomenon observed in their patients, but …
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Dec 03 2009
Blogging Hiatus Was For A Good Cause
Well, time does fly by, especially if you’re dissociative. But I actually remember most of the last month, so that’s not it. I am oh-so-close to releasing the first draft of my new Dissociation Blog Showcase for which I donated all of my free blogging time (and then some) this last month. I have close …
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