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System Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersAnnouncement: EmmaS Presenting for ISSTDA Safety Belt for Staying Afloat in the Turbulence of Organized and Extreme AbusePresenters: Valerie Sinason, Emma Sunshaw, Faige Flakser & Susan HykesDate: September 18, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 8:00 PM US Eastern TimeEmmaS Portion: High Demand Religion (Noon Pacific / 3pm Eastern)Register HERE... or as part of the 2025 Webinar Pass.
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2025-06-2300 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersBaby EmmaWe talk about processing in therapy, little Littles, and why (it feels like) shiny happy God can’t be not-real. (I do not say God isn’t real, but hear a quote that references trauma in the connection between spiritual and earthly parents).NPR Interview referenced HERE. The author interviewed is Shalom Auslander.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Co...
2024-11-0425 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersKetchupEmma shares about a panic attack in response to Dante and emotional flashbacks regarding parallels between now time and memory time.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally giv...
2024-04-2240 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersFoundationsEmma shares about not starting over in therapy.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in each episode. Specific trigger warnings are not given due to research repo...
2020-02-1331 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersNew TherapistEmma updates about meeting her new therapist.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in each episode. Specific trigger warnings are not given due to research reporting this...
2020-01-2320 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersFacing the FireWe share about the "facing the fire" at a women's retreat, as well as deployment updates.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in each episode. Specific trig...
2019-10-2849 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersOrganized AbuseSasha explains terms about organized abuse, and also educates about self-care. The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in each episode. Specific trigger warnings are not given due t...
2019-10-2146 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersEmailsWe read and respond to listener emails.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in each episode. Specific trigger warnings are not given due to research reporting this...
2019-10-1736 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersEmailsWe read and respond to listener emails.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in each episode. Specific trigger warnings are not given due to research reporting this...
2019-10-1444 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersNow Time Is Mine (Rose)We talk about how hard therapy is, and try to define what "safe" means. We explore "now time is mine".The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in e...
2019-10-1035 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersGuest: Neil BrickWe interview Neil Brick about organized abuse.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in each episode. Specific trigger warnings are not given due to research reporting this...
2019-10-0743 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersTriggersWe share about a workbook chapter and homework about avoidance, triggers, flashbacks, and memory time.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in each episode. Specific trigger warn...
2019-10-0352 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersEmailsWe read and respond to listener emails.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in each episode. Specific trigger warnings are not given due to research reporting this...
2019-09-3029 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersThe Duck PondEmma reflects after therapy was so hard that we ran out of our session (which was about getting to know others inside). The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are gene...
2019-09-2630 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersEmailsWe open mail and we read and respond to listener emails.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in each episode. Specific trigger warnings are not given due...
2019-09-2339 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersGuest: Sarah Clark - The Plural AssociationWe talk with the Plural Association System about the ableist aspect of Structural Dissociation.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in each episode. Specific trigger warnings are...
2019-09-1959 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersStructural DissociationWe share what we are learning about structural dissociation.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in each episode. Specific trigger warnings are not given due to rese...
2019-09-1624 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersThe Beginning of GriefSasha processes what happened with JohnMark's "Nachos" episode, including recognizing grief both in now time (with therapist and friends), and in memory time (dead parents), and tries to remind us that now time is still safe - but it is not feeling like it.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to...
2019-09-0925 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersNachosJohnMark grieves, talking about leaving therapy and missing friends.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in each episode. Specific trigger warnings are not given due to rese...
2019-09-0522 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersGuest: Kathy SteeleWe interview Kathy Steele.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in each episode. Specific trigger warnings are not given due to research reporting this makes triggers wors...
2019-09-0243 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersGuest: Christine Forner (ISSTD)Dr. E speaks with Christine Forner, the current president of the ISSTD. Christine shares her own trauma journey to healing, and opens up about what that was like professionally. She explains her clinical perspective of trauma and dissociation and what healing looks like from her own perspective. She discusses her goals for her presidency, as well as upcoming ISSTD projects related to survivors and updated treatment guidelines. Domestic violence and trafficking and other “genres” of abuse are referenced, but nothing is disclosed or discussed in detail.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. R...
2019-08-2953 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersEmailsWe read and reply to listener emails.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally given in each episode. Specific trigger warnings are not given due to research reporting this...
2019-08-2640 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersGuest: Rachel Lewis-MarlowRachel Lewis-Marlow is a somatically integrative psychotherapist and shares with us about the importance of connecting to our bodies. She explains about the different ways different systems are organized, and different ways facilitating change. She explains how this “language of sensation and movement” applies to preverbal and nonverbal memory work, to eating disorders specifically, as well as to dissociation. She defines embodiment, so as to define dissociation as disembodiment.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can he...
2019-08-2250 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersEmma Lets the Walls DownEmma reflects on therapy, learning to sense triggers for memory time and for switching, and learns about the concept of integration.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general. Content descriptors are generally giv...
2019-08-1536 minSystem Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative DisordersBethany Brand & KimWe share a partial interview of Bethany Brand, of which the remaining interview was lost due to technology interview and she was unable to reschedule to do another interview.We also talk with Kim about what it is like to be a partner of someone with DID.The website is HERE.You can join the Community HERE. Remember that you will not be able to see much until joining groups. Message us if we can help!You can contact the podcast HERE.Content Note: Content on this website and in...
2019-08-1250 min