System Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorders
Diagnosed with Complex Trauma and a Dissociative Disorder, Emma and her system share what they learn along the way about complex trauma, dissociation (CPTSD, OSDD, DID, Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality), etc.), and mental health. Educational, supportive, inclusive, and inspiring, System Speak documents her healing journey through the best and worst of life in recovery through insights, conversations, and collaborations.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 433
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Guest: Kathleen Adams
We speak with Kathleen Adams, PhD, about abject shame and suffering. She shares about dissociative defenses and terror. She explains abject shame and suffering. CONTENT WARNING: She gives numerou…
Attach Cry
We Google search “attach cry”.
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Guest: Larry Ruhl
We chat with Larry, who presented at the 2022 Healing Together conference. We share with each other about our grief over losing therapists, and talk about what healing looks like after. We share ab…
Un-Fawning
We process a therapy session in which we realized we didn’t have to be fawning anymore - and how dysregulating it was not to be fawning.
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Guest: Peter Maves
We chat with guest Peter Maves, a pioneer in the field and a colleague we work with planning conferences and building the professional training program with ISSTD.
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Emails
We read and respond to listener emails.
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Cemetery Revisited
We process parenting and being parented.
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Healing is Mine
We process about letting go of the loss of our therapist and apply it to what we are learning about re-enactments.
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Guest: Eli Somer
Eli Somer, a clinician in Israel, joins us to discuss dissociative absorption, reality shifting, and maladaptive daydreaming. He says the experience of non-traumagenic plurals is entirely valid, but…
Heifer
JohnMark got things to say.
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Out of the Woods
We talk with Nathan.
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Nutritionist
We share about visiting with a nutritionist post-pandemic.
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China Cabinet
We share about processing another move, and reflecting on Memory Time feelings showing up in Now Time.
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Presentation: History of Diagnoses
We share our presentation for ISSTD about the History of Dissociative Diagnoses.
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Design of Human
Nathan shares insights.
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Soul Skin
We reference a chapter from the book Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes.
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More Fairytales
We continue our fairytale project.
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Community Guest: Crystals
We visit with Crystals from the Community.
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Emails
We read and respond to listener emails.
Our website is HERE: System Speak Podcast.
You can submit an email to the podcast HERE.
You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE. Once you are in, you can use a non-Appl…
Molly’s Samaritan
Molly visits the podcast.
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