Healing Without Forgiving: A Hero's Journey for Dissociative Survivors

Life can feel incoherent chaotic and painful when you're first diagnosed with a dissociative disorder due to chronic childhood trauma. The road ahead may seem frightening or uncertain and you may think of yourself as incompetent unworthy or even crazy. But what if instead you pictured yourself as a hero about to embark on the most difficult but rewarding journey of all? What if you focused on forgiving yourself and the trustworthy people in your life rather than following society's common a...