System Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociation

By Emma SunshawScience Social Sciences Health & Fitness Mental Health

System Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociation episodes

June 17, 2019 Guest: The Adaption System
We welcome the Adaption System from Germany, who have OSDD and are becoming a psychotherapist who helps dissociative clients. They explain what counseling and psychotherapy are like in Germany, and what makes them different. They share about their OSDD System, and how fighting to get diagnosed helped them learn enough to establish internal communication. They share about studying under Ellert Nijenhuis and then apply what they have learned to how to help “acting out” or destructive alters. They share about educating clients and professionals about dissociative disorders. They distinguish between DID and OSDD by explaining one ANP as opposed to several. They share about advocating for proper diagnosis and treatment. They recommend reading “The Trilogy of Trauma” by Ellert Nijenhuis.
59 min
June 13, 2019 Sehr Gut
Sasha shares that the system has been struggling, but we are pulling through without any acting out behaviors. She reads emails from listeners, and shares about teamwork, internal communication, and conflict resolution. She explains why some people do well with EMDR and some don’t. She shares about the trigger of children singing, and how we have tried to turn that around into empowering our outside children. She shares again about why we are not out publicly because of our work and the outside children. She responds to another therapist with Dissociation. They share briefly about how scary it can be to start doing body work. She says again how it’s connection that heals us, together. Trigger warning for reference (without discussion or details) to self-harm, alcohol, pornography, trafficking, and ritual abuse.
47 min
June 12, 2019 Emma Accepts Her Diagnosis
Emma talks about therapy progress: internal communication, getting grounded, memory time, triggers, and accepting diagnosis.
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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 and her system are 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.
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26 min
June 10, 2019 Bat Sleep Crazy
Sasha shares how we learned the hard way that journaling, doing the workbook, and attending therapy consistently really is helping. She shares how watching the (outside) children struggle through the recent storms taught us a lot about what it was like for us to deal with ongoing trauma as children. She shares about what we have been learning about caring for the body, and how to use this as a bridge to considering the body as an ally. She shares about our auto-immune disorder and how learning to eat well specific to our body has helped us. She then goes through what we learned about sleep from the workbook. Trigger warning for reference to avoiding Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, but no direct discussion of it, as well as mention of flashbacks and nightmares and bedtime triggers. One specific example of a trigger is discussed (the sound of a belt coming out), but the memories are not discussed.
48 min
June 10, 2019 Living in a Body
Sasha talks about Mother's Day and Father's Day, and how important it is to care for the body when struggling.
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You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!
You can contact the podcast HERE.
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 and her system are 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.
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47 min
June 06, 2019 Sehr Gut
Sasha reads and responds to listener emails.
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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.
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46 min
June 06, 2019 Tribal Return
Sasha talks with our oldest daughter, who is traveling with us to Africa. She explains what biracial is, and why going to Africa is so important to her. She shares about getting her DNA tested to find what tribe she is from, and how she has prepared to go to Africa after studying her black history for several years. She shares about learning the trauma of her ancestors, and how she has both coped with that and healed that story in herself as she goes “home” to Africa. She shares about dealing with bullies and caring for herself and learning to protect herself and having parents who help keep her safe. Trigger warnings for mention of biological family, foster care and related traumas, body safety, and black history related traumas.
42 min
June 03, 2019 Emma’s Now Time
Emma shares about her therapy session, in which she learned about how now time triggers memory time. She shares what she learned about how this happens through sensory input. Trigger warning for trigger talk, acknowledgment of abuse, and examples of triggers from the therapist’s office (door slamming and footsteps in the hall). These are discussed without any abuse details or disclosures.
27 min
June 03, 2019 Emma Hurts
Emma talks about being afraid she is not strong enough. It's two months after the avoidance episodes and she is struggling with how real the pain is. She briefly mentions outside children having trauma and being okay and pure now without details. She is struggling with internal children being stuck in memory time and feeling responsible for them not feeling better now. She talks about tornados wiping out Kansas city, and how scary it was with trying to protect and comfort children. She also processing cleaning up after a tornado, and how that relates to therapy. She also talks about children maybe being a trigger for her. She mentions that next week is the Africa trip and she talks about how that is triggering and she is worried about it even though she also wants to help the children there. She also talks about needing to take breaks from therapy stuff to breathe.

The website is HERE.
You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!
You can contact the podcast HERE.
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 and her system are 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.
★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
31 min
May 30, 2019 Facing Fear
Emma opens up about feeling afraid as part of trying to face things instead of avoid them. She shares about the difficult experience of realizing that sometimes she is triggered by issues related to her children, and our upcoming trip to Africa. She shares about our night of ten tornadoes, and the destruction around us in Kansas City. She tries to process how to deal with triggers without avoiding. She struggles to remember NTIS. Trigger warning for mention of foster care, adoption, lost childhood grief, trauma-holding Littles, child pregnancy in Africa, and weather trauma with tornadoes and flooding.
31 min

About System Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociation

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Emma shares about complex trauma, deprivation, and dissociation (CPTSD, OSDD, DID). Educational, supportive, and inspiring, System Speak documents the best and worst of life through insights,…