System Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociation

We read and respond to listener emails. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Once y...

We talk about how hard therapy is, and try to define what "safe" means.  We explore "now time is mine". Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non...

We interview Neil Brick about organized abuse. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE ....

We share about a workbook chapter and homework about avoidance, triggers, flashbacks, and memory time. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-...

We read and respond to listener emails. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Once y...

Emma reflects after therapy was so hard that we ran out of our session (which was about getting to know others inside). Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and th...

We open mail and we read and respond to listener emails. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join gro...

We talk with the Plural Association System about the ableist aspect of Structural Dissociation. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple d...

We share what we are learning about structural dissociation. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join...

We interview Kathy Steele. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Once you are set up...

Dr. E speaks with Christine Forner, the current president of the ISSTD.  Christine shares her own trauma journey to healing, and opens up about what that was like professionally.  She explains her clinical perspective of trauma and dissociation and what healing looks like from her own perspective.  She discusses her goals for her presidency, as well as upcoming ISSTD projects related to survivors...

We read and reply to listener emails. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Once you...

Rachel Lewis-Marlow is a somatically integrative psychotherapist and shares with us about the importance of connecting to our bodies.  She explains about the different ways different systems are organized, and different ways facilitating change.  She explains how this “language of sensation and movement” applies to preverbal and nonverbal memory work, to eating disorders specifically, as well as t...

Emma reflects on therapy, learning to sense triggers for memory time and for switching, and learns about the concept of integration. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orient...

We share a partial interview of Bethany Brand, of which the remaining interview was lost due to technology interview and she was unable to reschedule to do another interview. We also talk with Kim about what it is like to be a partner of someone with DID. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HE...

Dr. E interviews Dr. Dan Siegel of the Mindsight Institute, who defines dissociation by defining integration by defining differentiation.  He explains interpersonal neurobiology, and how that has everything to do with DID but is also bigger than that.  He then defines developmental trauma as an assault on integration.  He then explains the science of why and how this is, and what hope it gives for...

We share the processing we have done following the Mother Hunger episode and the interview with Dr. Siegel.  We share how understanding what Dissociation is actually helps us deal with both false beliefs from shame and the protective denial that comes with it.  We explain how Dissociation isn’t just avoidance of what was bad, but avoidance of the realization we couldn’t do anything about it.  This...

We speak with Kelly McDaniel, who coined the term Mother Hunger.  She explains what this means, and how it is the earliest trauma and a disenfranchised grief.  We discuss not having “permission” to talk about our mothers, much less work out mother trauma, which leaves us isolated from mothering and healing.  In this, she is able to explain how and why dissociation starts in infancy - and what it i...

We read and respond to listener emails. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Once y...

Dr. E explains about attachment theory. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Once y...

Emma talks about the Cycle of Anxiety, panic, avoidance, and dissociation. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari b...

Prior to airing this episode, we explain some issues and terminology related to the interview.  Dr. Roger Solomon shares with us about the loss of Francine Shapiro, as well as the history and work of the EMDR Institute.  He defines trauma as that which is overwhelming and impactful, as well as stored maladaptively in the brain (different aspects of the memory stored in different parts of the brain...

We read and respond to listener emails after our Africa trip. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to joi...

We talk with Mary and Nathan about what happened in Africa. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join...

Dr. E interviews special guest Susan Pease Banitt, LCSW, author of “The Trauma Toolkit” (for survivors) and “Wisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy” (for clinicians).  They talk about attachment.  They also talk about ritual abuse. Due to the nature and content of the interview, some triggering topics are referenced, such as types of abuse including ritual abuse.  However, no detailed stor...