Happy Birthday!
You can claim any day you wish as your birthday, as often as you like during the year!
The world is built on relationships.
For people with dissociative disorders, remembering is a conundrum.
Trauma is passed epigenetically from one generation to another.
Letting down and having fun is important. (Artwork credit: Beach Party by Sheri Salin.)
If the difference between shame and guilt is, ‘I am bad’ versus ‘I did something bad,’ then my whole existence was grounded in shame.
A diagnosis of DID is both a death warrant and an invitation to new life.
You can claim any day you wish as your birthday, as often as you like during the year!
Becoming real doesn’t come easily. It takes a long time.
I thought I was good at relationships but it was all a fake.
We are a beautiful tapestry of belief and non-belief, faith and lack of faith, clarity and confusion, and everything along those continuums.
Forgiveness is not a requirement, but grieving is.
We are more than our pain, even when we think we aren’t.
People with DID face unique existential questions.
After suffering and death, comes new life.