What do you think of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation by Janina Fisher?

[Rumors]

I have read it. My therapist suggested it. It's a parts book but not necessarily only for DID. Reality is that we all work from parts of ourselves, some are just more integrated than others...

 

[tree]

where do u find the audiobook?

 

[Teasel]

I found it on Amazon. Because I belong to audible it cost me 1 credit

 

[mylunareclipse]

I listened to the audio book when I had a free trial. I found it really helpful. I don’t think it’s just for DID but more like a spectrum of how people struggling In various ways can find it useful to think in “parts” term. I would recommend! Hope I can get the physical book at some point

 

[barefoot]

I read the first couple of chapters a couple of nights ago.

I like her description of the parts we accept/‘own’ and other part(s) we ignore or dismiss as ‘not me.’ The ‘me’ and ‘not me’ distinction really resonates with me. This younger, split-off part I’m struggling to connect with (resistant to connecting with) definitely feels like something I want to keep ‘over there’ because it’s not really anything to do with me, la la la…

I was reading the book pretty late and then went to bed. Then had a really, really horrible dream where I was having a really violent, brutal miscarriage. It was awful. I do have a tendency for lairy dreams but don’t think this one was a coincidence!

 

[Teasel]

Good to hear you relate to the book, would love to hear more as you read on.

Good too to know it stirs shit up!

 

[barefoot]

Yes, happy to share more as I go along, and keen to hear your thoughts too. Just to warn you though, I'm quite a slow reader these days!

Good too to know it stirs shit up!

Well...yes and no...

 

[Waterbear]

I bought this book a couple years ago. I got a very small amount in and was triggered so badly by it all. I gave up reading it and actually think I gave the book away, to my T. Looking back I think maybe I just wasn't ready to face what happened to me. I couldn't even think the word trauma, let alone apply it to myself or speak it, so maybe it was all just too early for me.

I'm in a different place now, maybe I should ask if she still has it.