Dissociation is a common phenomenon that exists along a continuum from normal everyday experiences such as that of daydreaming to disorders that interfere with our ability to function in everyday life. This range of experiences is exemplified in several common situations that many of us encounter. For instance, most of us have had the experience of getting so lost in a book or movie that we lose all sense of time passing and our immediate surroundings. Another common example of normal dissociation is the trancelike state known as highway hypnosis. We can drive for great distances, while responding correctly to other cars, traffic signals and yet afterwards we have little conscious recollection of having done so. Our conscious mind is focused somewhere else, while another part of our mind is processing the information needed to drive safely.

Digital Dissociation

Dissociating is easier than ever before in this age of smartphones, social media and other technological distractions. We can simply pick up our phone or go on our computers, and we’re flooding our senses with multiple never-ending streams of news, social media updates, YouTube videos and other digital candy. We’ve become so addicted to the stimulation that we are in many respects losing ourselves. Our bodies are there in the chair or wherever we happen to be situated, but we’ve managed to disconnect from what’s going on around us and the growing unrest residing within.

Far too many of us are spending enormous amounts of time behind the screens of our smartphones and computers consuming news or scrolling through our Instagram and other social media feeds. Consequently, we’re not as present in our interactions with other people or fully engaged in what’s happening in life here on planet Earth.

Many people prefer texting over voice and other forms of communication. The problem with relying upon texting as our primary means of communication, is that we are stunting our personal and interpersonal development by teaching ourselves to be less present in our interactions.

Texting is an incredibly dissociative form of communication. We cannot observe the facial expressions or other visual cues of the person we’re attempting to communicate with. We cannot hear the sound of their voice or pick up on changes in tone or inflection. When we are not able to rely upon our senses, we’re missing a lot of crucial information needed to understand the other person and get a feeling for what they’re about.

Recognizing Dissociation: Signs and Symptoms

Dissociative experiences such as daydreaming or getting so caught up in a book or movie that we lose track of time and what’s going on in the here and now can provide us with a respite from the stresses of everyday life. Dissociation becomes problematic when it occurs involuntarily and interferes with our ability to function and live our lives.

Dissociative disorders occur when there is an alteration or disruption in the normally integrative functions of identity, memory and our physical bodies. These disorders are characterized by a disconnection or a lack of continuity between the various aspects of ourselves and our actions and surroundings.

Common dissociative symptoms are out-of-body experiences or the sense of being a different person at times. We may feel lightheaded, emotionally numb or become so detached from our bodies that we have a hard time feeling physical sensation and experience little or no pain.

Our Mind’s Way of Protecting Us

Dissociation serves as a protective mechanism to helps us cope with overwhelming trauma. Parts of us disengage from our body and our immediate experience when we are emotionally overwhelmed by traumatic events.

Dissociation is a common, naturally occurring defense against childhood trauma. When faced with overwhelming stress, children tend to dissociate more readily than adults. It makes total sense to dissociate or flee psychologically from the full awareness of a traumatic experience. It’s our mind's way of protecting us when there is no means of escape.

Our coping mechanisms helped us to disconnect and disengage from the trauma living inside of us so that we could survive. Dissociating from or compartmentalizing the painful emotions and other disturbing sensory impressions allowed us to attend school, and later on work at a job and function in other aspects of our lives.

We run into problems when the defense mechanisms meant to protect us from the overwhelming stress of traumatic experiences that we lived through as a child outlive their usefulness and persist into adulthood.

Dissociate Disorders are Largely Trauma-Based

The symptoms of these disorders are the result of habitual dissociation from the frightening, overwhelming and painful emotions, impressions and physiological reactions to trauma that have been internalized. For instance, a victim of sexual assault may have no conscious recollection of the attack. And yet they suffer from depression and numbing. They may also find themselves being triggered by certain individuals or their words and actions and anything else that reminds them of the traumatic event.

Many survivors of trauma may not experience flashbacks and the intrusion of traumatic memories, until many years after the abuse occurred. And yet they feel unreal and experience a sense of distancing or trancing out. They also have a means of disconnecting from their bodies in a way that would enable them to ignore physical pain.

Those of us who were abused as children are far more likely to experience posttraumatic and dissociative disorders combined with depression and anxiety. Common symptoms include reoccurring depression, anxiety, panic and phobias, anger and rage, low self-esteem and feelings of being damaged or worthless and shame.

We’re also far more likely to struggle with substance abuse issues, eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia or compulsive overeating. We often experience considerable difficulty in our relationships and with intimacy. Sexual dysfunction can range from avoidance to sex addiction and indiscriminate choice of partners.

Many of us also experience memory gaps or time loss, along with a sense of unreality. We experience flashbacks and are often flooded with intrusive thoughts. We can be especially hypervigilant and experience disturbances such as nightmares that make it incredibly difficult for us to sleep. We may also experience altered states of consciousness or personalities.

Much of the clinical literature says that dissociative disorders are trauma based. With that being said, I want to point out that not everyone who experiences dissociation does so as a result of trauma.

I have over the years worked with many people suffering from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, and I’ve found a much higher incidence of dissociation among them. Some of these individuals do have histories of trauma and neglect, and others do not.

Depersonalization and Derealization

It’s fairly common to experience elements of both depersonalization and derealization because they are actually two sides of the same coin. We feel detached from our ourselves and we may also experience a sense of disconnection from the world around us.

Depersonalization happens when we experience a sense of being separate or disconnected from ourselves and our bodies. Our memories, feelings and bodily sensations, feel as though they are not our own. Parts of our bodies feel as if they are not real. Or we may experience a sense of being ‘out of body’ as if we are above or behind our bodies. We may also find it difficult to relate to what we’re seeing whenever we look in the mirror.

Derealization is more of a sense of being cut off from reality. We feel disconnected from other people and the world around us. Colors, objects and the entire world can take on a flat or two-dimensional quality. Sounds may also seem distorted. That can leave us feeling as though we are in a dream or watching a movie. Derealization can help us to cope with trauma, by making it seem less real. The mental distancing can help us to survive.

Dissociative Amnesia

Dissociative Amnesia happens when we’re not able to fully integrate traumatic events, the sensory impressions of these experiences and our emotional responses. Dissociative Amnesia with acute loss of memory may result from wartime trauma, a severe accident or sexual assault. Important personal events cannot be recalled because our mind blocks these events from our conscious awareness. For that reason, we can only access vague memories, or we have no recollection of major events or portions of our lives.

Dissociative amnesia can be frightening and disorienting. We sometimes question our sanity, feel embarrassed about it and therefore, try to hide it from others. Dissociative Amnesia can cause us to feel ‘vague’ and ‘spaced out’. We may worry that we’re suffering from some form of cognitive deficit or brain damage.

It’s not that we are any less intelligent. Trauma that becomes internalized can have a hugely disruptive impact upon the development and function of our brain and other organs and systems of the body. Parts of us do not function very well or may not function at all. We may also experience gaps in our ability to function when parts of our brain and psyche have failed to develop.

We forget about tasks that we need to get done. Or maybe we actually do complete an important task such as completing a job interview or making hotel or plane reservations, but we cannot remember. We may forget conversations or interactions that we’ve had or even parts of a day. We find notes we’ve written, and yet we do not remember writing them. We may also misplace items, or we find them in unexpected locations, and yet we have no memory of putting them there.

Dissociative amnesia can and often does perpetuate itself indefinitely. In fact, many people continue to experience dissociative amnesia long after the traumatic events. Without effective treatment, it may continue for the remainder of our lives.

Dissociative Fugue

The word fugue comes from the Latin word for flight. A person in the midst of a dissociative fugue temporarily loses their sense of personal identity and wanders impulsively or travels away from their home or place of employment to a new location. They often become confused about who they are and in some instances create new identities.

Identity Confusion and Alteration

Most of us struggle to form a sense of our own identity as we grow into adulthood. Identity confusion is a more extreme version in which confusion becomes a normal part of our daily lives. When this happens, our beliefs, opinions, tastes, thoughts and sense of ourselves are prone to continual fluctuation.

Identity alteration is the sense that parts of us feel though they are foreign. Our feelings, thoughts, memories, behaviors and actions may even feel as though they are not our own, possibly belonging to someone else. This altered sense of identity further adds to our sense of confusion about who we really are.

We may experience a sense that we are more than one person or feel as though we have someone else living inside of us. We may hear voices or feel that someone or something is taking over us at times. We may also experience confusion around our age, gender or where we are at any given moment.

It’s not that we have another person or persons living on the inside of us. It’s more accurate to say that parts of our consciousness have become fragmented. These fragmented aspects of us contain aspects of the traumas we’ve suffered along with the highly charged emotions that we have not been able to process. These parts of us are at different stages in their development and often experience life through the filter of our past traumas and the highly charged emotions they are holding. They can in some instance, form separate identities.

Disturbances of Movement and Sensation

Trauma-related dissociation can cause a range of perplexing and at times distressing physical symptoms that cannot be explained by a physical disease or disorder. These symptoms can include the loss of senses such as sight, hearing and speech. We may experience numbing or a loss of feeling in parts of our bodies. There may also be a loss of physical mobility.

We may experience an unexplained sense of bodily intrusion that expresses itself as physical pain, involuntary impulses and movements or seizures. These seemingly unexplainable symptoms can cause a great deal of fear and confusion. They may also cause us to seek medical intervention. Misdiagnosed symptoms can result in unnecessary, invasive and costly treatment. Symptoms resulting from trauma when correctly diagnosed can be greatly improved and even healed with effective therapeutic interventions.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is not officially classified a dissociative disorder, and yet it is one of the primary causes of dissociation. Those of us who suffer with PTSD can alternate between recalling or reexperiencing the trauma in the form of flashbacks or we numb out and disconnect. We’re also more inclined to avoid people, situations or anything else that might trigger the feelings and memories associated with past traumatic events.

Divided Identity Disorder

Divided Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, occurs when parts of us assume separate identities. This fragmentation of the self usually begins in childhood or adolescence as a result of severe physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse. The fragmentation tends to be more severe in those who have been either subjected to sadistic abuse or abused by multiple perpetrators and even more so if the abuse occurred over an extended period of time.

Other Causes of Dissociation

We become dissociated for many reasons. Children subjected to neglect do not receive the love and attention needed to thrive and will in many instances learn from an early age to disconnect from their bodies and the unpleasant realities of their daily lives. This dissociative tendency often carries over into adulthood.

Many of us experience varying degrees of dissociation after an automobile accident. Dissociation in this context may involve feeling detached from the experience or our surroundings, having a sense of unreality, or feeling emotionally numb. We might not remember parts of the accident due to dissociative amnesia.

Surgery is in many instances a necessary medical intervention that can improve the quality of and save lives. Radiation and chemotherapy used to treat cancer may also save lives, but they can also have an incredibly devastating impact upon the body. Surgery, radiation and chemotherapy are experienced by the body as an invasive trauma. These invasive medical procedures can disrupt our connection to our physical bodies. That can create a sense of disorientation and leave us feeling disconnected.

I’ve worked with many people over the years suffering from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, and I’ve found a much higher incidence of dissociation among them. Some of these individuals do have histories of trauma and neglect and others do not.

Many of us automatically default to patterns of avoidance coping. Habitually avoiding people, places, situations that we find uncomfortable, issues that need to be addressed and our own emotional responses can reinforce our dissociation.

Substance Abuse

Substance abuse is fairly common among people with dissociative disorders, which makes sense because many of these individuals rely upon alcohol and other recreational drugs to help them cope. Drugs such as crystal meth, ketamine and psychedelics can cause people to become very dissociated. Habitual pot smoking, especially when it’s done to avoid unpleasant emotions or issues that one isn’t willing to address can also cause a person to experience a milder form of dissociation referred to as being spaced out or ungrounded. The use of these substances can exacerbate existing dissociative symptoms such as depersonalization and derealization.

Spiritual Bypassing

The denial of our authentic emotional responses, sexuality and other aspects of our humanity is common among many religious and spiritual traditions. Disconnecting from our feelings, physical bodies and the realities of our everyday lives is a form of dissociation.

Some forms of meditation and other spiritual practice can be incredibly ungrounding. Many people gravitate towards these religious and spiritual traditions and practices because of their discomfort with life here on planet Earth.

Dissociation's Impact on Our Relationships

We nourish one another within the context of our relationships when we are able to show up fully present to one another. That requires a mutual sharing of thoughts and feelings not just about each other, but about our lives and the world around us, our past and our hopes and dreams as we look toward the future.

Dissociation can place enormous stress on our relationships, because it undermines our ability to relate and therefore starves our relationship over time. We all have an unconscious tendency to choose partners who reflect back to us elements of our painful past in order to grow, heal and develop. For those of us who learned to dissociate during our original wounding, the patterns that have become so deeply entrenched have outlived their usefulness.

Others find relationships to be incredibly stifling. The dissociative patterns automatically kick in as the painful memories and feelings start making their way to the surface. At the same time, they see the other person they’re not able to remain present with feeling deeply hurt. They can’t leave and yet they do not have the capacity to remain fully present with their partners. The confusing drama that plays out in these relationships can be agonizingly painful for both partners.

It can be difficult to recognize the stress upon a relationship caused by dissociation, because it is often an unconscious coping process. Dissociation is also easily confused with intentional emotional distancing.

For the partner who checks out by dissociating, it’s not necessarily a lack of interest, but a deeply ingrained survival mechanism. They only want to feel better, not make their partner feel bad. But their maddening ambiguity often leaves their companion feeling abandoned, unheard and unloved.

It’s often a matter of finding new and healthier ways to respond when painful feelings and memories arise. In these situations, it’s important for us to slow down enough when we find ourselves being triggered to observe our dissociation and, over time, feel into the pain held within our bodies that we have numbed ourselves to that has been causing us to check out.

By Not Being Present in My Body…

My friend Eileen asked me to write the chapter you’re now reading. I asked Eileen how dissociation had impacted her life. Here’s her response…

“Not being in my body hindered my ability to care for myself. I disregarded eating, exercise and other health concerns. I did not recognize the damage I was doing to myself and other people too. By not being there, I inadvertently hurt people. I lacked empathy and understanding because I wasn’t connected to myself or present to what was going on.

I was oblivious to the impact that my checking out was having upon my relationship with my children and husband. By not being present as a parent, I wasn’t able to address my children’s needs. I also put them into some dangerous situations.

Not being present prevented me from feeling the pain. I ended up staying in an unhappy marriage far longer than I had to. Why move from a bad situation when I could just go up into my head and spiritualize, fantasize and have affairs? By not being connected to what I was unhappy with, I could escape rather than having to deal with it.”

Dissociation and its Impact upon our Ability to be Sexually Intimate

There are many reasons people dissociate during sex. That can include sexual assault that occurred as an adult, childhood sexual trauma and other forms of abuse. Dissociation often serves as a defense mechanism, in that our mind is attempting to protect us from feeling traumatized all over again. For sexual trauma survivors, dissociation provides us with a means of coping with the reminders of past deeply wounding and even terrifying experiences that arise during moments of physical intimacy.

Dissociation can have an adverse effect upon our ability to connect with our partner, especially if our associations with sexual intimacy are negative. Our mind might wander during sex and in some instances, we lose a sense of awareness of our partner and our surroundings.

Anxiety can also cause us to dissociate. Performance anxiety can cause men to dissociate sexually. Men and women may experience body-image issues, along with feelings of insecurity or inadequacy around sex.

Many of us are so stressed out that it prevents us from switching our minds off during sex. When this happens, we may dissociate despite the fact that we are physically aroused by our partner. Stress can also have a negative impact upon our ability to become and stay aroused during sex.

The emotional disconnection or lack of closeness or intimacy that many of us experience with our partners may lead us to dissociate. Those of us who have experienced trauma in past relationships can be fearful of intimacy. The unhealed traumas living on the inside can leave us feeling especially vulnerable and unsafe. Consequently, we dissociate or check out during sex to escape these horribly unpleasant feelings.

Mindfulness practices can help us to diffuse feelings of anxiety and insecurity that arise in response to being sexually intimate. If we notice our mind beginning to wander, we can purposefully bring our attention back to our experience in the present moment.

Grounding practices can be especially helpful before becoming physically intimate with our partner. We ground into our bodies and immediate experience by drawing our attention deeper into what we’re able to see, hear, smell, taste and touch in any given moment. It’s also important for us to abstain from alcohol and other recreational drugs that impede our ability to be fully present to the experience of being physically intimate with our partner.

My Own Challenges with Dissociation

I never experienced any of the more severe dissociative symptoms such as depersonalization, derealization or amnesia, and yet people have commented on many occasions that I wasn’t fully inhabiting my body. I would often disappear into daydreams. My mind would wander and that made it difficult for me to focus my attention and track on what other people were saying in a conversation. There were also many instances in which I would be reading a book, and yet I couldn’t remember what I had just read.

My mentor Horace, one of the last surviving traditional doctors among the Kiowa Tribe, was especially gifted when it came to facilitating the healing of the physical body. But he didn’t possess much understanding when it came to emotional wounding. Horace sometimes became frustrated with me because I wasn’t all that present in my body.

Horace put me into a number of extraordinarily challenging situations to force me to become more fully present and to rely on my survival instincts. At the age of twenty, he dropped me off in the middle of the Hopi Indian Reservation with thirty dollars and my backpack and then told me to hitchhike to Las Vegas and find whatever work I could. Before driving away he looked at me and said, “Make it the best you can.”

My arrival in Vegas was unsettling to say the least. Homeless people residing further north would descend upon the city during the winter months to escape the cold. Out of necessity, I turned to my instincts to find a place to stay and a means of generating income. Horace showed up a few months after I had passed my test. He looked at me and said, “Ready to go? I quickly packed my belongings, and we were on the road again.

I started to utilize the traditional native healing methods taught to me by Horace in my mid-twenties, but I lacked many of the resources needed to build a thriving practice. My dissociation became most painfully apparent in my intimate and at times not-so-intimate relationships.

I struggled for the longest time with patterns of abandonment and unrequited love and experienced an incredibly painful sense of longing for what I couldn’t have. A few of the women I formed attachments to were also quite abusive. What made it even worse is that I kept holding on in my desperate attempts to make those relationships work. These relationships were in many ways a reenactment of my childhood and adolescent traumas.

It didn’t take me long to figure out that dissociated guys holding lots of trauma and emotional pain in their bodies are not very attractive to women. The steps I took to heal enabled me to diffuse and digest the trauma, let go of the attachments that weren’t working and to transform my dysfunctional patterns. It also enabled me to become much more present in my body. As that happened, it became much easier for me to connect with women, and I gradually began to form healthier attachments.

There were numerous instances such as during my apprenticeship with my mentor Horace, when I left college or moved that I completely lost touch with people who had been a very important part of my life. A few of these individuals died. I wasn’t there for them at the end of their lives, and I never got to say goodbye. There are others that I would love to reconnect with, but I have no idea how to find them.

Looking back, I feel saddened that I ever allowed that to happen, but I realize that it was because I was so disconnected. As I’ve become more present, I’ve come to value the people who are a part of my life.

For many of us, the first steps in the healing journey involve gaining an awareness and understanding of the abuses we suffered and the impact that it’s had upon us. Psychotherapy can be an important part of our healing journey.

Psychotherapy helped me to gain an intellectual understanding of my own emotional wounding. My never-ending fascination and desire to understand more about my own emotional wounding and that of others compelled me to devour all kinds of clinical literature pertaining to anxiety, depression, trauma and attachment issues.

Intellectual understanding only went so far. Out of necessity, I devised an extensive series of meditation practices that awaken the innate healing power residing within the body and mind. Each of these practices has in its own way facilitated a different aspect of grounding.

Breathing with my awareness centered within the abdomen awakened a deeper instinctual consciousness. Another practice enabled me to dissolve the layers of chronic muscular tension. Walking meditation diffused the painful emotions in a way that made them more manageable while rooting me in my body. Breathing with my awareness focused on my hands and feet brought more awareness into my extremities. Breathing into my desires created more momentum by intensifying my passions. I also made a conscientious effort as I went about my day to breathe into any feelings or bodily sensations that I experienced in response to whatever was happening in the moment.

We tend to contract when we find ourselves confronted with situations or people that leave us feeling intimidated or that evoke upsetting emotional responses. But I’m continually teaching myself to remain present in difficult or challenging situations.

Mindfulness practices can be a critically important part of the healing process, and yet they do have their limitations. As I sense into people’s bodies and minds, I can see and feel the trauma and highly charged emotions and the parts of self that have shut down, disconnected or have failed to develop. I’m also able to see and feel the lack of integration between the various aspects of the spirit, intellect, emotions and the physical and subtle bodies.

I came up against these same limitations in my own practice. I therefore had to rely upon the work I did with a number of gifted healers and the vision quest, a traditional Native American practice that involves fasting alone in the mountains for four days and nights without food or water.

The sessions I did with gifted healers were especially helpful, but I rarely had the opportunity to work with them because there are so few people who possess these gifts of healing. I ended up waiting months or years between sessions.

For many years, I felt a tremendous longing for the gifts of healing that the traditional Native American doctors possessed. I began to feel a strong pull to return to the Wichita Mountains around the time I turned thirty. I’ve been returning in the spring and fall for decades now.

It’s during the times that I’ve spent on the mountain that I have felt an incredibly powerful presence working within my body. I felt the deeply wounded parts of me healing and being transformed. I feel a distinct sense of having more of me fully present in my body every time that I go through the vision quest.

I’m also making a concerted effort to find practical application for this process in my everyday life. To the best of my ability, I’m addressing the issues that needed to be dealt with head on as they arise. I’ll breathe into the fear, anxiety, contraction, resistance or anything else I’m feeling any time I feel stressed out or intimidated or find myself confronted with difficult or challenging situations. Taking this approach enables me to become more present in my body while continually expanding my range of motion.

Going through my own healing journey has made it possible for me to facilitate this same kind of transformation within those who have the opportunity to work with me. I can see the transformation taking place as their emotions become much more accessible, and they become more firmly attached to their bodies.

Having trained with a traditional Native American doctor, I work as a conduit. The presence working through me during the individual sessions addresses the underlying cause of dissociation. The highly charged emotions which in many instances arises from some kind of childhood trauma such as emotional, physical or sexual abuse are transformed so that they can be thoroughly digested. The processing of those emotions and calming of the nervous system makes it possible for those who go through this process to stay connected with themselves and the world, to function at much higher levels and to experience a growing sense of wellbeing.

I can see and feel the process taking place within their bodies and minds as the parts of the self that have been in a disconnected or deadened state are brought back to life. An integration of the fragmented parts of self occurs as the deep emotional wounds are healed and transformed. The various facets of the individual comprised of the intellect, emotions, soul and physical body become more deeply integrated.

Merri is a good example of the healing process that I’m describing. She had a very limited memory of portions of her own childhood despite having been in psychotherapy for ten years. Merri began to recover the memories of being physically and sexually abused as a child during our first session. These traumatic wounds healed over time as we continued to work together. You can watch the video interview that I posted on YouTube where Merri describes the healing process she went through.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYF31e1qgSg

Working with the Elderly

I have worked with a number of elderly people over the years who were barely hanging on by a thread. Getting them firmly rooted into their bodies extended their lives. Some of those who indicated to me that they didn’t expect to be around much longer went on to live another five, ten or fifteen or more years.

Healing After an Automobile Accident or Surgery

People have often sought me out after being injured in an automobile accident. And many others have worked with me after undergoing surgery. Physical pain is alleviated, and injuries heal at an accelerated pace. As the trauma resulting from the injuries or invasive medical procedures heal, they become much more focused, reintegrated and grounded in their bodies.

Too Much in Their Heads

Many of the people I’ve worked with over the years have expressed their concerns and frustration over the fact that they’re too much in their heads and disconnected from their feelings and physical bodies. They’re constantly worrying, over-analyzing and replaying the same conversations over and over in their heads. They’re so lacking in self-awareness and are therefore out of touch with their own basic needs.

Every time we do a session, it draws more of them into their bodies. As they become more rooted in their bodies and gain access to their feelings, they develop greater understanding and awareness and are better equipped to care for themselves.

Many are able to let go of their addictions as the deep emotional wounds heal. They start replacing refined sugar and other processed food substitutes with healthier food that nourish and sustain them. Rather than eating compulsively, they’re eating only as much as their bodies need at the appropriate times. Many have also stopped smoking or/and drinking or using other substances.

They’re caring for their bodies by getting more exercise and giving themselves time for adequate time for rest. They’re taking better care of their teeth and attending to other important aspects of their health and physical appearance.

Many are also letting go of abusive relationships and other forms of unhealthy attachments. As they continue to heal from within and relate to their feelings and physical bodies, they’re able to be much more present with their partners.

When you’re dissociated, you’re not all here. That means you’re not fully living your life. You’re probably also doing damage to yourself, other people and the planet that you’re not fully cognizant of. And that’s why it is so imperative for you to heal to be taking the steps necessary to facilitate the healing of your emotional wounding and become fully present in your body. As new resources become available, you’ll find yourself becoming more capable. And not only that, but you’ll also live a more meaningful and deeply fulfilling life.

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