March 13, 2012
Introducing Maizy
Hello to Everyone out there in the Blogging World –
Over the past weeks and months, I’ve been bouncing around to a few different places, sometimes with internet connection, and sometimes not. Today, I do have internet connection.
I thought I’d say a quick hello while I could today.
Hello!
(that’s my version of a quick hello, ha ha ha) 
Ok, so with all silliness invited, I also wanted to introduce you to a good friend of mine. Her name is Maizy, and she has been bouncing around with me lately. Not many people have met Maizy yet. She’s a little shy, and she doesn’t really get out much. But Maizy is a kind-hearted Maizy, and maybe with a little encouragement, she just might be willing to spend a little time with you.
I was hoping that maybe just maybe Maizy could share some of her aMaizyng Maizy adventures with you, especially with some of the DID kids of the world. There are always lots of fun things to learn and share with kids who have seen too much pain and sorrow and troubles in their young lives. Maybe Maizy can become a helpful and comforting friend to those kids too?
Would you kids like to meet Maizy and hear stories about how she gets through her tough times in life? Would you like to hear some aMaizyng Maizy stories?
I think I can encourage Maizy to share some of her life experiences with you all.
With the help of Emma. 
Before she comes out here on her own, Maizy wants you to see her with her friend Emma.
Do you remember Emma?
Have a little peek at a few blogs back. Emma has had her picture in here a few times already. Emma Girl is very sweet and enormously precious to me. Emma knows. She isn’t fooled by anyone.
As far as I am concerned, Emma is one of the most beautiful pug dogs in the whole wide world. Anybody that’s ever heard Emma knows that she snorts and sneezes and snitzles and schwizchles with the biggest variety of puggy noises. Emma has a wonderful heart and she is a very very smart puggy with a great big vocabulary, and she can sniff out the very best in anybody and everybody. And Emma knows Maizy.
A picture can show it better than I can, so I’m including some pictures of when Emma first met Maizy. As you can see, Emma gave Maizy a very good look and checked her out carefully. Emma is not easily tricked and she only friends up with those that are safe and good, and have kindness in their hearts. Even when kids don’t know that they have good hearts, Emma can sniff out the good in them. Emma knows. She knows that lots of kids are good kids.
Emma checking out Maizy!
You can see in the pictures that Emma gave Maizy a good thorough check. Emma was not sure at first, but she looked and sniffed and woofed and looked and sniffed and woofed some more. Finally, Emma decided Maizy was a pretty good Maizy, that Maizy.
Emma knows that it is important to check very carefully when you meet someone new. She knows to not rush head-over-heels too quickly when first meeting someone. Good, solid relationships take a lot of time to build and develop, and the super-speed attraction approach is often not so safe, and/or it ends up crashing too quickly with emotional overload and overwhelming intensity. Emma knows to not say too much, and she knows to not disclose too much personal information when first meeting someone. She knows it is important to make sure someone is not pretending to be someone that they are not, and that often takes a fair bit of time to figure all that out.
Emma woofing at Maizy!
Emma says not to rush into building any kind of relationship with anyone! She says it is more important to ask more questions to the other person than it is to tell information about you. The more you know about the other person, the better you can decipher if he or she is a safe person or not.
It’s important to be careful, and to know that there are people out there in the world that are not going to be kind to you. Please protect yourself and guard your little ones carefully while you are getting to know who the other person is.
So with all those self-protection cautions in mind, here’s Maizy.
Hi Maizy!
Copyright © 2008-2012 Kathy Broady and Discussing Dissociation
January 29, 2011
Little Puppy Buddies
Hello everyone,
I am glad that you have been enjoying the puppy pictures. The puppies are 8 weeks old now, and they have all been placed in their new homes. That has been a bittersweet experience, as I really quite enjoyed each of their little tender selves.
I thought I would share a few more puppy moments with you — I picked pictures where the puppies were doing things together.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we all had such good friends we could be this comfortable with?!
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Armani and Vera at 8 weeks of age.
Armani and Vera are both such sweet little gals. Armani is the quieter, gentler one of the two, while Vera has a bit more courage to take on life’s challenges. They both like to be held and they were the first two insist on sleeping right here with me at the computer. And Vera talks! She and I would have rather lengthy girl-friendly conversations about all kinds of things, lol. One of us would start our little chat, and the other would say something back, and back and forth we’d go just chattering away. Such fun!
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Diesel and Diamond at 8 wks
Diesel and Diamond are the two oldest of the litter. You might remembering seeing the two of these puppies back in December 2010 when they were just two days old. Haven’t they grown?!! In the picture of this week, they are each happily chewing small plant stems. It’s great that the puppies are sharing, but oh dear, what about those poor plants!
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Diesel and Fiori at 8 weeks
Diesel and Fiori must be sharing the same dreams! Aren’t they just the cutest, all perfectly matched like that, lol. So precious…
I am going to miss these little ones as they head off to their new homes and their happy new lives. As I get updated information, I’ll be sure to share with you all.
I hope you are having a good day!
Warmly,
Kathy
Copyright © 2008-2011 Kathy Broady LCSW and Discussing Dissociation
January 23, 2011
In Case You Were Wondering….
In case you were wondering why I haven’t made more posts recently, maybe these pictures will answer some of your questions….
It appears that little Miss Vera has other ideas about laptops!
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I guess Miss Vera thinks laptops are comfortable!
We’ll see if she let’s me have time to type on it this week!
Enjoy -
Kathy
January 15, 2011
Because These Little Gals are Just Too Cute!
You might be tired of the puppy pictures, but these little ones are just too cute to not post!
I’ll get back to writing more serious posts at some point in time in the not-so-distant future, but having a little puppy break must be good for healing too, right?! I’m just sure it is!
Here are some of the latest photos.
Which ones do you like?
Little Diamond at six weeks old.
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Little Armani at six weeks old.
Little Armani – such a sweet gentle soul… She really loves to be carried around the house, lol.
Little Vera at six weeks old.
Vera – a feisty, full of energy puppy, but she’s also one of the first ones to want to cuddle close when she’s sleepy.
Diamond and Armani at six weeks old.
Just sooooooooooo adorable!!!
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They are all girls, and they are all beautiful!
I hope these pictures bring a smile to your day!
Warmly,
Kathy
Copyright © 2008-2011 Kathy Broady LCSW and Discussing Dissociation
February 15, 2010
I Knew You Could! – a children’s story
The healing process for survivors of abuse and neglect is very difficult. While it is a rewarding journey, it is a painfully difficult process.
Trauma survivors with dissociative identity disorder typically have lots of child parts in their systems. Sometimes these child parts may seem to outnumber the adults!
Working with the kids is an important part of the healing process. Inside kids often know a lot about your internal system, family dynamics, and trauma memories.
But these inside kids, while very much connected to the rest of your adult self, also have real kid needs. They need to be cared for, kept safe (inside and out), allowed to have healthy daily provisions, given support, comfort, and compassion. These are the parts of you that were frozen in time when your needs were not properly meet during your actual childhood. They are the parts of you that just could not go on any further in life, and had to stay stuck where they were, back in that time. They are often the parts that lived through the horrors that you are remembering.
If you ask me, child parts are little heroes. If you think that working on your trauma issues is hard as an adult — with a therapist and all the current-day resources available to you — imagine how hard it was to be a little child living that trauma, completely on your own, with no help at all. Your little kids have had a rough go of it. It really is important for you to do what you can to soothe their wounds and heal their hurts.
One thing that helps child parts to move forward and to not stay stuck is to meet some of their unmet needs. Between years of abuse and neglect, and many incidents of trauma, your child parts will have oodles of experiences of not having their needs met appropriately. The sooner you and your system can treat your child parts in healthy ways, the sooner they will heal. Having corrective emotional experiences will allow your child parts to experience the positive things that were missing in their development.
If your child parts are not in a place where they can emotionally flourish, it will be important for you to help them reach a place where they can experience creative happy living.
Reading good children’s stories with your child parts are as helpful for your inner kids as they are for outside children.
The book, “I Knew You Could” by Craig Dorfman is a wonderful children’s story about encouragement, support, positive self-belief, and healthy determination. The story is about a little train that goes through different areas of life, questioning his train-abilities and wondering if he can make it through the various stops in life.
If you would like your child parts to hear this story, you may listen to a recording of “I Knew You Could” at the AbuseConsultants.com blogtalkradio show page.
I am not a professional storyteller by any means, but through the years of working with DID / MPD clients, I have been asked by many a child part to read a story. It seemed to me that maybe other child parts out there in the world would also enjoy having a positive, encouraging story read to them.
Please use this story as a way to encourage yourself and comfort your inner kids. Your healing journey is difficult — filled with lots of stops and bumps along the way — but you have already survived the worst of it. You can heal from here, and create a much better life for yourself and your insiders.
When you hear “I Knew You Could”, what are your favorite lines in the story?
Which phrases fit your life right now?
What does this story mean to you?
And whatever difficult things are happening in your life… keep working at it!
You can do it.
I know you can!
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By:
Kathy Broady LCSW
