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Dissociative Identity Disorder and Reconnection
Beauty in the Ruins Sometimes I get a comment that is bursting with questions that I just HAVE to talk about in more depth than just a comment back. In my last post “coping methods ~ trying to escape...
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Dysfunctional Relationship with Mental Health Providers
I am pleased and excited to have guest blogger Susan Kingsley-Smith sharing about dysfunctional relationships within the mental health system while I am away on vacation. Susan is my friend and...
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Learning to Feel Feelings isn’t Always Easy by Lynn C. Tolson
This week I am pleased to have Lynn Tolson guest posting here on Emerging from Broken. Many of you know Lynn; she is a frequent commenter and contributor to the conversations here in EFB. Lynn is an...
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EMOTIONAL HEALING DOES NOT DEPEND ON….
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is YOU who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” Les Brown There is a critical fact that I had to DRILL into my brain in order to get the...
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When Mental Health Providers are not Helpful by Kylie Devi
Kylie Devi I am pleased to have guest writer Kylie Devi writing about Unhelpful Mental Health Providers this week at Emerging from Broken. Many of us have been through the mental health system with...
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Smile ~ An Example of Belief System Formation
Darlene Ouimet ~ Smile One of the biggest uncomfortable and reoccurring memories that I have is of constantly being told to smile. It was not encouragement, it was a directive. I didn’t realize it at...
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Choosing Like Minded Friends and the Belief System
Like Minded? I decided to do a search on Google using the key words “belief system” and one of the first things that came up was the instruction to “challenge your belief system” (not much instruction...
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Thanksgiving and Gratitude ~ when the little voice rebels
against all odds It is Thanksgiving weekend in Canada and I have been thinking about gratitude these past few days in relation to the past and the present. I had been in the process of ‘trying’ to...
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A day in the Life of Darlene ~ Recognizing the Origin of Self Blame
“It wasn’t just that I didn’t know what I was feeling; I was also afraid to acknowledge my feelings in case they were wrong. Survival for me had become about making sure that I didn’t do or say the...
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The Reason People don’t Hear what You are Trying to Say
freedom on the other side…. It is very common that when the lights go on and we start to come out of ‘the fog’ that we realize we have been living in for a long time, we are excited to tell others what...
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Difficulty Crying or Feeling Ashamed or Afraid of Crying
on the rocks “I had a lot of trouble crying; sometimes I needed to cry so bad that I would watch a tear jerker movie by myself so I could get a few tears out. I still have trouble in this area but I...
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Are you Having Difficulty with the Emotion of Anger?
I learned that anger was deadly… Recently I read a quote about anger and how everyone should embrace it and all the reasons that anger is useful. I agree that anger is useful and that anger is often...
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My Article has been Published in TILT Magazine!
A couple of months ago I was invited by DeeAnna Nagel and Kate Anthony from Online Therapy Institute to submit an article to TILT magazine (TILT stands for “Therapeutic Innovations in Light of...
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Positional Power ~ When Your Therapist Doesn’t Get It
Child abuse and neglect result in low self-esteem, depression and a whole lot of other issues. Part of the grooming process that occurs in ALL abuse including emotional abuse and psychological abuse is...
View ArticleHealing Trauma, Depression, PTSD and or Domestic Violence
There is a lot going on in May and June and today I am sharing the updates with you here on the Emerging from Broken blog because not everyone is signed up to receive updates from me. (info on how to...
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