Partial Did Quotes

“All parts need to be honoured for their role in survival and re-framed as helpful before new coping strategies can be developed. The ability to internalise the relationship with the therapist as a caregiver is key to the individuals ability to provide for self-care and management.”
― Sue Richardson, Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder

“Severe [dissociative] symptoms are found mainly in people who have a dissociative disorder, but even at its most extreme this illness is not the catastrophic
affliction that it's often made out to be.”
― Marlene Steinberg

“healing is not about eliminating parts of the self, but about embracing every aspect of who they are with compassion and courage”
― Savannah Gloria Buxton, Beyond the Fragments: A Healing Path for Dissociative Identity Disorder