Sometimes things happen, and we get shame-triggered. This week, when something happened, we realized almost immediately that it was an attempt to exile us from community and that we were feeling shame and where it originally came from. We were able to work on it and heal it. We share a post-mortem of that exploration and journey as an example of memory reconsolidation. We wrote & recorded that section of this post on Monday (May 22, 2023) & Tuesday (May 23, 2023), respectively. Saturday — we're positive this bit of healing really took. We're good on this issue. It's been put to bed. Start a new chapter. Trigger warning: This episode contains 2 sound effects, talk of bullying, fighting, our ex-husband is in the hospital. We cry a bit (about him), sorry about that. He's doing OK — but that was where we were at that moment. More warnings in the episode. As always, these episodes may not be appropriate while driving. Please mind your triggers, and put our podcasts on broadcast in your internal landscape so anyone who wants to can listen in. Links: Episode TranscriptUnderstanding Memory Reconsolidation Ads: United Front Substack NewsletterLife Coaching for Plurals see https://liberatedlifecoaching.com/

Onboarding is what we call helping stuck residents become more present in the Here & Now, and work on coconsciousness. What does it generally take to help system members who are stuck in PTSD loops or trapped in the There & Then to get free, or become more present in the Here & Now? We give a little history for how we figured it out, and an overview and big picture of the process we use in the United Front Boot Camp and the book United Front: Recruits, with hints on how you can work on freeing your lost headmates. Trigger warning: As always, these episodes may not be appropriate while driving. Please mind your triggers, and put our podcasts on broadcast in your internal landscape so anyone who wants to can listen in. Links: Communication Techniques - https://kinhost.org/Main/CommunicationTechniquesSystem Trust Issues - https://kinhost.org/Main/SystemTrustIssuesRescue Missions - https://kinhost.org/Main/RescueMissions (Ad) More information on 13-week Professional Program https://liberatedlifecoaching.com/GroupCoachingPrograms/UnitedFrontCertification The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm. The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm.

Everyone needs an anchor or a base for exploring life. Some get it from family or friends, and if something shakes it, it can be devastating. Join us for an episode exploring how to have a reliable way to depend on your own internal system for structure, support, and safety so that you limit your reliance on externals for your deepest and most dependent needs. Content Warning: our young folk front, discussing the topic, and we dissociate through a large portion of the episode. We do not consider this content to be appropriate for young folk to listen to and work on. There are mentions of how external folk may be unreliable, or even dangerous, and even when children are speaking, none of this is child's' play. Recorded May 21, 2019, and we finally got housing March 2020. This episode is finally being published July 6, 2020. There will be a related session at the Plural Positivity World Conference called "Building a Reparenting-Focused Community". Links: https://youtu.be/1lObwvgwkMc -  Building a Reparenting-Focused Community from the Plural Positivity World Conference - on YouTubehttps://youtube.com/pluralevents  - Plural Positivity World Conference on YouTubehttps://PluralEvents.org - Conference website

Boundaries and Empathy (011) Important concept for our System Trust Issues series. Do other people's emotions overshadow your own? Do you have a hard time protecting yourself from emotional outbursts? Do you know where you end and other people begin? More on what is separate, and what ought to be. When the world pushes up against us, it can penetrate our defenses and leave us defenseless, or with unmanageable boundaries and leaks inside and out. What are boundaries? How do boundaries relate to empathy and what do we need to fix them? This is part of a series of podcasts leading up to a capstone on System Trust Issues. And this will also tie in to a later episode on Cording & Decording. Trigger warning: Panic attack, crowded subway car. Mentions of anger, emotional manipulation and blackmail. Someone theoretically punching a wall. This is a high-level theoretical episode and should not be specifically triggering, but you still may not want to be operating machinery while listening to it and of course anything can be triggering to someone with a history of abuse. It's always possible others in your head are interested, so a little tip: Listen with the intent for everyone in your system to be able to hear it too: put it on an internal loudspeaker, so that they don't need to front to hear. episode transcript NewAs Inside, So Outside (and vice versa) (010) New - the boundary between internal and external realityHow to Re-Associate with Your Body (007) New - the boundary between ourselves and our bodyTrigger Topics: Conformity (004) New - our social boundariesWelcome to DID: We Are Not Your Enemy (009) New - inappropriate internal boundariesGetting a Feel for EmpathyUnited Front Boot Camp: Barbed Wire or White Picket Fence?United Front Boot Camp: Home Renovations: Intercom or Holodeck?United Front Boot Camp: What are you letting in?United Front Boot Camp (blog)]The Crissing Link Series (books) NewThe Crissing Link Series (books) Newhttps://kinhost.org/Main/United

We happily interrupt our regular podcast to say it's DID Awareness Day! And as such, we're giving you all a special episode — the January 13th recording of our lecture Beyond the Movies: Debunking myths about DID & plural systems. This is long. Just over 1 hour and 20 minutes. You may have heard it before. Feel free to skip it if you don't need it! The original recording is available for download, there's a script/transcript, and a call-in playback phone number which are all here: https://liberatedlifecoaching.com/Events/20190113-BeyondTheMovies-DebunkingMythsDIDPluralSystems Please spread this recording around to your singular contacts, or slip the phone number on their desk, or anything you can to get them to listen in and debunk those awful myths that keep getting foisted about whenever a new movie about someone with DID or who is plural comes out. If you're a singular ally — or are considering becoming one after listening to this — welcome aboard! We are so glad to have you. Keep on spreading the truth about plurality & DID!  Thank you!!

A discussion of how important names and re-naming can be for individuals, both external and within a plural system. Names have power, and what we name our headmates can create harmony or friction within the plural system. Buck of Crisses takes us through several types of hurt we can commit from mis-naming, labeling, and dead-naming. Trigger warning: If you have a problem with a certain nickname of `Richard`, this episode may bother you. As always, these episodes may not be appropriate while driving. Please mind your triggers, and put our podcasts on broadcast in your internal landscape so anyone who wants to can listen in. Links: NamingNames — a mostly-unrelated manual entry that may be expanded. The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm.

United Front: Serenity Two Ways (021) A daily exercise in serenity; one of the many ways to be more present and less dissociated. The opposite of dissociation is presence. Presence is not just one thing going on, it's a collection of subtle arts including being mindful, anchored in the Here & Now, calm or serene, and being aware of one's surroundings. It was during a daily course in self-improvement that we discovered the passage "Serenity" from James Allen's As a Man Thinketh (1903), made a personal recording of it, and for a period of time we listened to it daily. Between the words and our own voice reading it calmly, it instilled in us a sense of safety. Listening mindfully, while breathing and calming down, became one of the ways we reminded ourselves to remain in the Here & Now, and to exercise our presence muscles. At the end of the episode we read the original 1903 "Serenity" passage including it's either (hu)man or male-centric verbiage and pronouns. At the time, it was popular to use "he" as a generic third party singular pronoun, and "man" could well mean "mankind" or any one person on the planet. When we read at the beginning of the episode, we read a version we modified. Both versions are available in prose (linked below) so you may record your own if you like. You do not need to listen to Serenity as your daily reminder to calm yourselves, or to have an anchor within your system who remains a point of serenity inside the system. You may use any other recording you'd like, or a painting on the wall, or look outside at nature, or play with a zen garden, etc. The point of the episode is to find this calmness inside, any one of you or more than one, and build your skill in finding it frequently. Trigger warning: As always, these episodes may not be appropriate while driving. Please mind your triggers, and put our podcasts on broadcast in your internal landscape so anyone who wants to can listen in. Links: Serenity Two Ways at Liberated Life Coaching.comSURRENDER™ to Passion at Amazon.com The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm.

Integration Is Not What Anyone Thinks (020) FULL SHOW NOTES & EPISODE UPDATES!! Important updates here: https://kinhost.org/ManyMinds/ManyMinds020IntegrationIsNotWhatAnyoneThinks If you have to ask what they mean, maybe they should use a different word? Going over the whole lot of confusing words used between psychology and psychoanalysis and while they may think they have their terminology straight, it's quite likely that 2 professionals would use the I-word and not know what each other means exactly by it. If no one knows what anyone else means, then maybe we shouldn't use the damn word in the first place? Self-advocacy episode — just say "No" to using the word "integration." Brief negligible spoiler with mistake about Heroes the TV series. Note to selves: fact check everything. We got a name wrong. It's not Tracy -- it's Gina. Note: We are pro-empowerment. We are not anti-integration nor anti-merging nor anti-unification. When therapists start talking about integration at the first meeting with a new DID client, that's absurd. That makes us upset, and we get very passionate about this. Our "just say no" is not to the idea of unification, but to the word "integration" in itself, and its introduction too soon in the therapeutic process. Trigger warning: Some people find the entire concept of anything using the I-word to be triggering, so obviously this episode wouldn't be for you if that's the case. As always, these episodes may not be appropriate while driving. Please mind your triggers, and put our podcasts on broadcast in your internal landscape so anyone who wants to can listen in. Links: This episode sponsored by United Front - and our Patreon supporters. Get the United Frontbundle at LeanPub!As Inside, So Outside (and vice versa) (010) NewWelcome to DID: We Are Not Your Enemy (009) NewPlease wipe your feet before you come inUnited Front Boot Camp Steps The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm.

United Front: Please Wipe Your Feet Before You Come In (019) Starting with and expanding on the United Front Boot Camp post of the same name: leaving your baggage and triggers outside of your meetings and greetings to form internal community. When you're starting your internal community, it's best to be on your best behavior with one another and leave your mess outside the meeting room. We go into our "As inside, so outside (and vice versa)" metaphor of treating your system like any household, and wiping the slate and starting over again as new acquaintances in your internal "home". Trigger warning: As always, these episodes may not be appropriate while driving. Please mind your triggers, and put our podcasts on broadcast in your internal landscape so anyone who wants to can listen in. Links: Please wipe your feet before you come inUnited Front Boot Camp Steps The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm.

Do Multiples Exist? - 2017 Update (018) The not-ranty version, covering much of the same ground as episode 017 with an update for new developmental models of DID. I had to apologize for the quality of the 2005 recording in episode 017 — and maybe apologize for the rant, too. People with mental health issues get the short end of the stick, but with DID, we often get it from inside the mental health community, and that's just not acceptable. So I can get pretty ranty. In this episode, you get information and less rantiness. Much less cursing, but that's not hard lol. Same topics plus 1 more on Developmental Theory. More organized, more coherent, less ranty. The theory that identities we experience are all "parts" of 1 person. Behaviorism -- and any purely scientific models.The whole idea that multiples may be "making it up" because it's "convenient" in some way.False Memory Syndrome (FMS) -- we don't mention it by name, but we do talk about it a bit. Essentially a group of people attempting to discredit the idea that memories of abuse can be misplaced and later recovered.Developmental theory -- new ideas and thoughts on how people become multiple: you were never 1 person in the first place. Trigger warning: There's a lot less cursing, maybe no cursing here, less vehemence and a much more positive ending with the information on recent developmental theories on DID. This episode is not particluarly triggering but of course, please be careful about your own triggers and if you think others want to hear it, put it on the Public Address System in your head so they don't have to front to listen. Links: The Multiple ManifestoTo Our DetractorsChallenging DID The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm.

Do Multiples Exist? - 2005 Remaster (017) Rant alert!! Dug up an old poor-quality recording, remastered it, and posted it. I recorded many episodes for the original Many Minds series while driving to and from work, then found out the hard way that my audio editing prowess was not up to the task of remastering them after work. This is an episode I think is necessary and powerful, but suffered because I had plugged my iPod into the car charger. It was a total disaster with a very loud electronic hum in the middle of my vocal range. It's now remastered to "somewhat acceptable". I apologize for the quality of this recording. We go into a few different theories of multiplicity, and then it becomes a rant. The theory that identities we experience are all "parts" of 1 person. Behaviorism -- and any purely scientific models.The whole idea that multiples may be "making it up" because it's "convenient" in some way.False Memory Syndrome (FMS) -- we don't mention it by name, but we do talk about it a bit. Essentially a group of people attempting to discredit the idea that memories of abuse can be misplaced and later recovered. Trigger warning: There's quite a lot of cursing in this episode. We're pretty vexed by accusations that we don't exist or that we're faking it, or that it's somehow convenient to forget things or suddenly have a change of religion or dietary preferences. If you're multiple, maybe you'll enjoy us ranting on your behalf. But we do curse a good bit especially towards the end of the episode where we rant about FMS. Links: The Multiple ManifestoTo Our DetractorsChallenging DID The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm.

Trigger Topics: Coffee and Deprogramming Triggers (016) Recording on trigger deprogramming and managing triggers from 2011 when we were triggered by the smell of coffee. Even once you have managed to work on most of your triggers, new ones can come up, ones you didn't expect or new aspects of old triggers. Here's a recording of when we were triggered in May 2011 and some of the ideas we've used to manage and work on triggers. Trigger warning: This discusses an active trigger, having switched between a protector or persecutor and a little, and is recorded by Hart, who is working on managing the trigger and discussing different ways the Crisses manage triggers. There's some minor cursing and discussion of different things that play into our coffee trigger. Links: Emotional Freedom Technique: https://emofree.com/english/eft-tutorial-en/eft-tapping-tutorial-en.htmlImplementation IntentionsDeprogramming Triggers New The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm.

Gaining Time: Developing a Mindfulness Practice (015) What's the opposite of losing time? Does time really go faster as you get older, or are you simply allowing it to rush away from you? Where anxiety is "What if…?" and depression is "If only…" it takes mindfulness to help pull us back into present time and reality. We can become more firmly anchored in the Here & Now, in our surroundings and in the reality of our current circumstances, rather than replaying the past or dreading the future. This episode is for anyone who is not firmly anchored in the present, who watches time go by too quickly, who is uncomfortable in their body, and needs to get reacquainted with true present-tense reality. Trigger warning: Definitely don't listen to this episode while driving. Once you are good at being mindful, you can do it whenever you'd like to — so long as you keep your open eyes on the road and two hands on the wheel. Links: SURRENDER™ to Passion: Worried to Wonderful in 28 Days by Rev. Criss Ittermann (the Crisses) http://surrendertopassion.comUnited Front Boot Camp (blog) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/BootCampThe Crissing Link Series (books) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/BooksUnited Front (the book) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/UnitedFrontUnited Front (ebook, in progress) http://leanpub.com/unitedfront Dissociation | Losing Time | Mindfulness | Presence The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm.

System Trust Issues: Building Trust (014) System Trust Capstone, Part 2: Now that you've stopped the constant eroding your system trust, what can you do to proactively build it up? Part 2 of 2 capstone episodes on System Trust Issues.  Click for the first episode: Compromising Trust. New What are some proactive steps you can take to foster system trust? What changes do you and your headmates need to make to be more trust-worthy? How do you gain trust rather than lose it? Topics include: Locus of Control, Attitude Adjustments, Role-Modeling Behavior, Firm Internal Discipline and Enforcement, How to become more Trustworthy, Ownership (vs. buy-in). Trigger warning: Please don't listen while driving and perhaps listen with a good friend and as usual listening could always trigger something for you. It's always possible others in your head are interested, so a little tip: Listen with the intent for everyone in your system to be able to hear it too: put it on an internal loudspeaker, so that they don't need to front to hear. Click for full episode show notes, links, transcript, etc. The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm.

System Trust Issues: Compromising Trust (013) System Trust Capstone, Part 1: What is happening in your system that erodes trust and makes it so that it's impossible to even tread water? Part 1 of 2 capstone episodes on System Trust Issues.  Click for the second episode: Building Trust. New What are the common issues that systems experience that erode trust? What do you need to change so that you and your headmates can get along better? What might you be doing that sabotages system trust? Topics include: You are probably not "the good guy" (and there is no "bad guy" cf episode 009), Sharing your life, Desire to integrate too soon, Words and names matter, Coercive language and behavior, Internal safety, The company you keep. Trigger warning: Please don't listen while driving and perhaps listen with a good friend and as usual listening could always trigger something for you. It's always possible others in your head are interested, so a little tip: Listen with the intent for everyone in your system to be able to hear it too: put it on an internal loudspeaker, so that they don't need to front to hear. Click for full episode show notes, links, transcript, etc. The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm.

Panic Reactions: 8 Important F-Words (012) Foundational concept for our System Trust Issues series. We've all heard of "fight or flight" reactions. In this episode we outline 8 different panic reactions and how they play out in multiplicity. Why are there predictable roles in a multiple system? We outline 8 "F-Word" panic reactions: Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn, Follow, Fortify, Fabricate and Facilitate, and then tie them into roles we play in our multiple system and why it's important to helping build system trust. This is part of a series of podcasts leading up to a capstone on System Trust Issues. Trigger warning: A few mentions of panic-worthy situations, internal prosecutors, and as usual we could always trigger something. It's always possible others in your head are interested, so a little tip: Listen with the intent for everyone in your system to be able to hear it too: put it on an internal loudspeaker, so that they don't need to front to hear. Links: United Front Boot Camp (blog) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/BootCampThe Crissing Link Series (books) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/BooksUnited Front (the book) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/UnitedFrontUnited Front (ebook, in progress) http://leanpub.com/unitedfront The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm.

As Inside, So Outside (and vice versa) (010) Foundational concept for our System Trust Issues series. The permeable membrane, internal organization, integrity, the cause & effect of being a team player, externalization, acting out, echoes and co-owning your shared life. After about 25 years of knowing I am multiple, hanging out with multiples, working with my system, and so on, I came up with this theory that things correlate across the boundary between our internal landscape or reality and the external, consensual reality. This concept of "as inside, so outside" is something we can use to empower us and inform us. When we are more cautious about this permeable boundary, we can craft our external life to have a positive impact on our internal life (and vice versa). This is part of a series of podcasts leading up to a capstone on System Trust Issues.  Trigger warning: This is a high-level theoretical episode and should not be specifically triggering, but you still may not want to be operating machinery while listening to it and of course anything can be triggering to someone with a history of abuse. It's always possible others in your head are interested, so a little tip: Listen with the intent for everyone in your system to be able to hear it too: put it on an internal loudspeaker, so that they don't need to front to hear. Links: episode transcript NewAs Inside, So OutsideUnited Front Boot Camp (blog) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/BootCampThe Crissing Link Series (books) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/BooksUnited Front (the book) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/UnitedFrontUnited Front (ebook, in progress) http://leanpub.com/unitedfront The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm.

This is an internal persecutor's mini manifesto on behalf of all your headmates, especially those you haven't met, and your potentially intimidating internal prosecutors. Buck of Crisses gives a prosecutor's perspective on internal politics, self-discovery, and a way to help you adjust to your new reality in dealing with DID and when you are experiencing excessive internal chaos. Your headmates are your potential allies, but pushing them away can create more problems for you and your system than you think.  A message for your inner buddies: this is our smack upside the head for the main front(s) of your system. We're trying to change the paradigm in regard to dealing with the unknown or feared portions of your system so that you don't have to focus your energy inwards towards getting room to breathe from your headmates, and you can spend more time protecting the system from things outside your body. This is part of a series of podcasts leading up to a capstone on System Trust Issues.  Trigger warning: This is an episode specifically advocating on behalf of internal unknowns and non-co-conscious people, etc. As such it may cause them to have opinions about it. This episode may be very triggering. You may want to find someone safe to listen to it with, or find a way to stay grounded during this episode. See the message for your inner buddies above, too. Tip: Listen with the intent for everyone in your system to be able to hear it too: put it on an internal loudspeaker, so that they don't need to front to hear. Links: Episode Transcript NewUnited Front Boot Camp (blog) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/BootCampNew: follow-up video/audio: "Recruits, Rebels & Adventurers: How to get on the same page and pitch in to have a better life together" - https://youtu.be/zpPcrfZq7lkThe Crissing Link Series (books) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/BooksUnited Front (the book) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/UnitedFrontUnited Front (ebook, in progress) http://leanpub.com/unitedfront Self - Help The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm.

Hiring Health Consultants: Hiring, Firing & Self-Advocacy (008) You are your own best case manager, and here's how to do it. In today's healthcare climate, it's more important than ever to be in charge of your own care. You live with your body, mind and spirit 24/7/365, and even if the signals your body gives you are muddied by dissociation or medication, no one else lives with you or can tap into your inner wisdom. Whether you choose to use allopathic/Western conventional healthcare, to use alternative or Eastern health care, or any other means of caring for yourself, you should be empowered to be in charge. Your professional team are your consultants, and you should be directing them in how you want your care handled. This is an issue of our times, not a specific DID issue. Every person who requires health care (whether medical, mental, or spiritual) should listen to this episode for tips on controlling who is on your health care team, and what your treatment plans will be. Trigger warning: This episode may not have any specific triggery content. It may not be easy to transition from "patient" to "client" of your health, there's plenty of reason to. Links: United Front Boot Camp (blog) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/BootCamp The Crissing Link Series (books) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/BooksUnited Front (the book) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/UnitedFrontUnited Front (ebook, in progress) http://leanpub.com/unitedfront"How to Re-associate with Your Body" (Episode 007) http://www.kinhost.org/wiki/ManyMinds/ManyMinds007ReassociateWithYourBody Go-to questions for a plan-less session What was your biggest health challenge since the last appointment?Do you have any new symptoms, areas of concern or issues that they need to be appraised of?What progress or realizations have you made since the last appointment? i.e. do your meds need adjusting? did you think of something new they need to know? The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm.

How to Re-Associate with Your Body (007) Do you include your body as an ally for your system? It's actually quite common for people — with or without DID — to "disown" their body and dissociate from it. We may have issues with pain, sex, weight, congenital issues, disability, race, capabilities… (anything associated with our body at all) that cause us to disavow our connection to our body. It's time to re-connect, and to own our body again. Whether or not we want it to change, this is our body today. And our body is an important ally in making decisions, in caring for ourselves, in managing our health, and much more. This issue goes beyond being a DID issue and may play into any body-dismorphic issues you have. If you have body-image issues, or any other reasons you don't have a stellar relationship with your body, you may need this episode. Trigger warning: This episode may not have any specific triggery content but the entire concept can be an issue for persons with DID or other issues. Links: United Front Boot Camp (blog) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/BootCampThe Crissing Link Series (books) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/BooksUnited Front (the book) http://thecrissinglink.com/Main/UnitedFrontUnited Front (ebook, in progress) http://leanpub.com/unitedfront The contents of this podcast are meant for informational purposes only. This podcast is meant only for adults, and listener discretion is strongly advised. By no means are the contents of this podcast series intended to diagnose any illness or replace the treatment or therapy of persons in need. Please seek professional assistance if you are in distress in any way. Music and intro vocals by The Crisses, created in Garageband. All contents © Criss Ittermann. Permission to share. And share again. The production of this podcast is community supported. Please help contribute, and learn more about what we have to offer at https://www.patreon.com/crisses To subscribe to our podcast, please see our page on Anchor.fm.