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Reconciling the past and the present: nostalgia, grief, and Robbie Williams.
This is a long one… We knew we had a lot to say here, and we have tried to cut it down, but, we don’t want to much more. This post...
Astra Ainsworth
Jun 2211 min read


Yeah, But... Life’s Still Hard
After publishing our Learning to Enjoy Life Again? post last month, we had some lovely comments from people saying how pleased they were...
Astra Ainsworth
Jun 183 min read


From Amber to Astra: Our Journey to a Collective Name.
Naming isn’t easy when we have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). For us, names carry layers of meaning and complexity that mirror our...
Astra Ainsworth
Nov 7, 20243 min read


System Discovery: Vir VSys's Journey.
It’s been a while since we’ve shared somebody else’s story, so we were so happy when our recent YouTube video about our system discovery...

Vir VSys
Sep 28, 20245 min read


K - Keeping House with Mental Illness
In my previous post I talked about how my struggle with housekeeping really frustrates me. Even though during my worst moments I use it...
FragmentDID
Apr 29, 20243 min read


The A-Z Blogging Challenge - I: Who is the ‘I’ in DID?
Dive into the complex world of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Explore fragmented identities and the language challenges we face.
Astra Ainsworth
Apr 29, 20249 min read


The A-Z Blogging Challenge - H for Healing and Hiatuses
By Mia and Berlou Healing hiatus A break from the past’s pains pull Moments of respite Just over a week ago we thought we were doing...
Astra Ainsworth
Apr 24, 202412 min read


The A-Z Blogging Challenge - G for Grief
By Mia Grief is a universal human experience and is a complex emotional response to loss, and can encompass a range of emotions such as...
Astra Ainsworth
Apr 15, 20249 min read


The A-Z Blogging Challenge - F for Fronting and Forgetting
By Mia and Berlou The criteria for dissociative identity disorder includes having two or more distinct identity states within one...
Astra Ainsworth
Apr 13, 20246 min read


The A-Z Blogging Challenge - E for Existing
By Berlou We haven’t had loads of ideas for E, we considered emotions but realised we could talk a lot about existing… However, since we...
Astra Ainsworth
Apr 11, 20246 min read


Shared Story: Fictives, Doubts and Acceptance.
We’re honoured to be sharing a submitted story by the iKandi Ravers, here Edgar speaks candidly about their experiences of being a...
Astra Ainsworth
Apr 9, 20243 min read


The A-Z Blogging Challenge - D for Diagnosis
By Mia and Berlou We thought we’d write about dissociation for ‘D’, but as we’ve come to do it we changed our minds and will be writing...
Astra Ainsworth
Apr 9, 20247 min read


The A-Z Blogging Challenge - C for Change.
We’re already really behind with this challenge because we have limited spoons and things keep happening that consume energy and...
Astra Ainsworth
Apr 8, 20249 min read


The A-Z Blogging Challenge - B for Berlou
By Mia. We aren’t just going to write about ourselves, honestly! But it’s starting that way, and C will maybe be Caris, consciousness,...
Astra Ainsworth
Apr 5, 20243 min read


The A-Z Blogging Challenge - A for Amber.
Written by Mia and Berlou. Our plan yesterday was to start doing the online journaling course we signed up for last week to keep our...
Astra Ainsworth
Apr 2, 20243 min read


Our selfs-driven writing challenge: reflection and integration.
Written by Berlou We’ve been feeling stuck about our writing and healing for some time now. After our system was revealed, we descended...
Astra Ainsworth
Mar 31, 20245 min read


Being an artist for us is having the opportunity to let our soul feel...
We're so happy to be sharing art and writing from SomoS TID. They're a partial DID System from Puerto Rico who have been using their art...
Astra Ainsworth
Jul 12, 20234 min read


Chameleon Girl Tribe Art and Story
We are thrilled to be sharing art and writing from the incredibly talented artist, Chameleon Girl Tribe. Chameleon Girl Tribe share their...

Chameleon Girl Tribe
Jun 5, 20233 min read


Processing persecutors - our experiences with Kai.
This is an excerpt from our book, The revelation. We've not found many persecutors in our system, Kai was the main one that we met and...
Astra Ainsworth
Apr 27, 20237 min read


Even the best hospital (UCLA) wasn't really prepared to deal with DID...
We first became aware that we had at least one alter, a syskid, while we were being treated in a partial hospitalization program (PHP)...
Ezri et al
Apr 7, 20232 min read
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