living the dream with author and dissociative disorder expert Lyn Barrett

Send us a text

Lyn is an author and a facilitator of Writers’ Workshops and Memoir Classes for People with Dissociative Disorders. Her memoir, Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory, follows her discovery of and recovery from multiple personality disorder, now called dissociative identity disorder (publication date January 3, 2022 with Koehler Books). Her free eBook DID Unpacked: A Parable is available on her website. She has been interviewed by public radio stations around the country and by Safe Communities Survivors’ Voices series. A retired teacher, school principal, and pastor, Lyn was diagnosed with DID in 1992 while climbing up the career ladder. After considerable therapeutic work, she now lives a happily integrated life with her husband in the Adirondacks. You can connect with Lyn on her website at www.lynbarrett.com. I offer hope to those who suffer from dissociative disorders, present accurate information about the causes of and presentation of the disorder, dispel misinformation, educate the wider community about DID which is (contrary to popular opinion) not rare, share reasons why writing can be critical for recovery from dissociative disorders and ways to begin the writing process, and offer reflections on a variety of issues people with dissociative disorders cope with such as shame, unreality, memory, multiple parts, anger, personal boundaries, relationships, and more.