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Sharon Begley of Newsweek, attempts to shame therapists into using the form of therapy that she declares is the ONLY evidenced based therapy available for clients suffering from all kinds of problems. Is this true?

Movie producer Tyler Perry broke the silence today. Wouldn't it be great to have him presenting at our conference next year?

The conference was great, everyone who should have been there was there.

One of the hardest areas of healing work in trauma disorders is dealing with shame. This articles discusses dynamics surrounding feeling shame, and offers 12 tips to reduce shame.

What causes someone to black out and not recall their actions? Dissociation of this sort is a direct result of being a victim and being trapped in victim thinking.

Jaycee Dugan had to have developed an alter ego to survive the ordeal she went through over the past 18 years. What will become of "Alyssa"?

Chris Brown's trial ended in punitive actions by the judge. Are we reactively engaging in similar victim thinking?

It has been dificult at times to accept I have parts, now I can see how they helped me all along.

Partners are there when reactivity appears because IT needs to. This is a powerful opportunity for change.

Get beyond the stuff that holds you back!

What happens when we have been exploited by the misuse of power? What do you belief about power and what it means to be powerful?

What is a soul mate, anyway? What is it that makes it feel like a match?

The Partner's role in the life of a Trauma Survivor is unique, powerful, and wonderful.

The prime facility where veterans of the military who have suffered through Military Sexual Trauma are being treated thinks that the Life Beyond Trauma Conference should not be promoted to her patients because their psychiatrist has an absurd idea about what "evidenced based" therapies really are all about.

Reactions driven by trauma formed when your partner's brain was young. The reactions are the remnants of their fight to survive.

Trauma from the Partner's perspective

Craigslist robberies can make us paranoid, but there are things we can do to help ourselves be safe.

Betrayal Recovery...illuminate the light inside of you

The things that set our partner's off are opportunities to enjoy and help them, and ourselves.

In talking with a young lady a couple of weeks ago about her inability to stay on track with healthier lifestyle habits, she not only discussed what and when she ate, but more so why she ate. Her eating was solely based on her emotions, rather than eating to fuel her body. She admitted repeatedly that food has been her way of dealing with uncomfortable situations and bad memories from her past. She, like so many others, is an emotional eater.

Does being deprived of touch, except for sex, sound like trauma to you?

Why is it when we make a mistake or things end up badly we end up beating up on ourselves?

Creating a collage is an effective way of allowing your internal DID system parts to tell more about themselves. Pictures can be a powerful way of communicating. A collage - a collection of pictures - can tell a lifetime of stories. As with any exercise that includes your whole system, it can lead to greater trust, system cooperation, and internal connection.

Silver celebrates the Independence of our country, the good old USA. She is also looking forward to the day of independence from all our trauma.

As an analytically oriented practitioner, I tend to look for symbolism and meaning in everything. I always want to know why. Why what? Why anything, why everything! In that vein, I tend to view analytic thinking as a sort of a prism, refracting the light differently, in beautiful color, from each angle.

Theophostic Prayer is a Christian approach to helping people find complete resolution of the emotional pain associated with trauma and abuse. It was founded by Dr. Ed M. Smith in the mid nineties in the context of helping sexual abuse victims. It is presently being used by mental health professionals, pastors and lay ministers in over 140 countries worldwide with very positive reports. There is continuing research being done to help to establish empirical evidence of its effectiveness.

What starts the dissociative splitting process? Believing the lie that "it didn't happen" is the very foundation of dissociation.