System Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociation

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Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general.  Content descriptors are generally given in each episode.  Specific trigger warnings are not given due to research reporting this makes triggers worse.  Please use appropriate self-care and your own safety plan while exploring this website and during your listening experience.  Natural pauses due to dissociation have not been edited out of the podcast, and have been left for authenticity.  While some professional material may be referenced for educational purposes, Emma is not your therapist nor offering professional advice.  Any informational material shared or referenced is simply part of our own learning process, and not guaranteed to be the latest research or best method for you.  Please contact your therapist or nearest emergency room in case of any emergency.  This website does not provide any medical, mental health, or social support services.

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 to dissociation.  She defines embodiment, so as to define dissociation as disembodiment.

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, then the website and app work on any device just fine.  We have peer check-in groups, an art group, recovery groups, social events, and classes.  Additional zoom groups are optional, but only available by joining the groups. Join us!

Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general.  Content descriptors are generally given in each episode.  Specific trigger warnings are not given due to research reporting this makes triggers worse.  Please use appropriate self-care and your own safety plan while exploring this website and during your listening experience.  Natural pauses due to dissociation have not been edited out of the podcast, and have been left for authenticity.  While some professional material may be referenced for educational purposes, Emma is not your therapist nor offering professional advice.  Any informational material shared or referenced is simply part of our own learning process, and not guaranteed to be the latest research or best method for you.  Please contact your therapist or nearest emergency room in case of any emergency.  This website does not provide any medical, mental health, or social support services.

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 orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE. Once you are set up, then the website and app work on any device just fine.  We have peer check-in groups, an art group, recovery groups, social events, and classes.  Additional zoom groups are optional, but only available by joining the groups. Join us!

Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general.  Content descriptors are generally given in each episode.  Specific trigger warnings are not given due to research reporting this makes triggers worse.  Please use appropriate self-care and your own safety plan while exploring this website and during your listening experience.  Natural pauses due to dissociation have not been edited out of the podcast, and have been left for authenticity.  While some professional material may be referenced for educational purposes, Emma is not your therapist nor offering professional advice.  Any informational material shared or referenced is simply part of our own learning process, and not guaranteed to be the latest research or best method for you.  Please contact your therapist or nearest emergency room in case of any emergency.  This website does not provide any medical, mental health, or social support services.

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 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, then the website and app work on any device just fine.  We have peer check-in groups, an art group, recovery groups, social events, and classes.  Additional zoom groups are optional, but only available by joining the groups. Join us!

Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general.  Content descriptors are generally given in each episode.  Specific trigger warnings are not given due to research reporting this makes triggers worse.  Please use appropriate self-care and your own safety plan while exploring this website and during your listening experience.  Natural pauses due to dissociation have not been edited out of the podcast, and have been left for authenticity.  While some professional material may be referenced for educational purposes, Emma is not your therapist nor offering professional advice.  Any informational material shared or referenced is simply part of our own learning process, and not guaranteed to be the latest research or best method for you.  Please contact your therapist or nearest emergency room in case of any emergency.  This website does not provide any medical, mental health, or social support services.

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 healing.

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, then the website and app work on any device just fine.  We have peer check-in groups, an art group, recovery groups, social events, and classes.  Additional zoom groups are optional, but only available by joining the groups. Join us!

Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general.  Content descriptors are generally given in each episode.  Specific trigger warnings are not given due to research reporting this makes triggers worse.  Please use appropriate self-care and your own safety plan while exploring this website and during your listening experience.  Natural pauses due to dissociation have not been edited out of the podcast, and have been left for authenticity.  While some professional material may be referenced for educational purposes, Emma is not your therapist nor offering professional advice.  Any informational material shared or referenced is simply part of our own learning process, and not guaranteed to be the latest research or best method for you.  Please contact your therapist or nearest emergency room in case of any emergency.  This website does not provide any medical, mental health, or social support services.

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 tells us, we learned, what the wall of terror is and how to get through it.

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, then the website and app work on any device just fine.  We have peer check-in groups, an art group, recovery groups, social events, and classes.  Additional zoom groups are optional, but only available by joining the groups. Join us!

Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general.  Content descriptors are generally given in each episode.  Specific trigger warnings are not given due to research reporting this makes triggers worse.  Please use appropriate self-care and your own safety plan while exploring this website and during your listening experience.  Natural pauses due to dissociation have not been edited out of the podcast, and have been left for authenticity.  While some professional material may be referenced for educational purposes, Emma is not your therapist nor offering professional advice.  Any informational material shared or referenced is simply part of our own learning process, and not guaranteed to be the latest research or best method for you.  Please contact your therapist or nearest emergency room in case of any emergency.  This website does not provide any medical, mental health, or social support services.