So I decided to make a creative writing journal prompt.  I thought it might help me to talk about other parts of myself if I could place them as characters of a story. The prompt is: You have

A lot has been coming up for me that is forcing me to deal with my dissociative processes more than usual.  I have known about them for years, but sometimes I feel like I have found a successful way

When I was younger, I remember someone saying something about how being a teenager was about finding your own identity. I don't know why this stuck out to me so much, but it was what I used to justify

"Programming" is one of the words used to describe the abuse I experienced in the aftermath that has always made me feel crazy.  I know the rationale for this, and it makes sense to me.

I remember when I read about memory contamination in Kathleen Sullivan's book Unshackled.  She suggested that when a person was in the process of recovery, which is also called deprogramming

What does it mean to have privacy?  I don't know that I always have the answer to this question.  Sometimes I feel guilty if I am not sharing every minor detail about myself.  I guess this

Journaling has been one of the most effective ways to overcome the abuse I experienced in the past.  Things that I still can't say out loud, I can say on paper.  Although, even then it has been