Dissociation

I’m reading Perspectives of Dissociative Identity Response: Ethical, Historical, and Cultural Issues, and came across this quote by Dr. Alexis Arbuthnott: “People with secure attachment styles feel connected with others and know how to ask for and receive support from appropriate people and in healthy…

As I like to remind my clients who are disappointed that they are late bloomers and lagging behind others, at least you are blooming, not everyone does. I know that healing is hard and there is a natural grief, sadness and anger that can arise around…

This quote comes from Richard Chefetz, MD, and he states, “In the practice of psychotherapy, there is no “fast food,” no short-cut to relatedness, no hyper-link to the creation of intimacy with people who may only have experienced a relationship as a source of pain.”…

This quote is from Judith Herman’s Trauma and Recovery: The aftermath of violence from domestic abuse to political terror. “Survivors of complex trauma have had to deal with a greater cumulative number and severity of adverse life events, experience higher baseline levels of psychological pain,…

As I was reading the young adult series Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend I came across this quote that is a really good descriptor of secure attachment. “It made sense to her now. Jupiter carried himself …like he was surrounded by an invisible bubble that protected…

Friendly reminder: The vast majority of gender affirming surgeries are obtained by cisgender folks. Cisgender women get breast reductions or implants, either of which are gender-affirming for the particular woman. Cisgender adults get face lifts, hair transplants and laser hair removal, which are gender affirming…