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Healing My Parts: Real Talk on Dissociative Identity Disorder and Complex Trauma

Healing My Parts: Real Talk on Dissociative Identity Disorder and Complex Trauma

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Real talk on Dissociative Identity Disorder and complex trauma—grounded in lived experience and clinical insight. Hosted by a therapist who lives with DID, Healing My Parts explores the complexities of life as a system, from trauma recovery to everyday realities. Through raw conversations, practical tools, and powerful guest interviews, this podcast empowers those living with DID, OSDD, and other dissociative disorders—as well as the professionals, friends, and family who support them. Together, we break stigma, celebrate system strengths, and shed light on one of the most misunderstood areas of mental health.

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  • When Two Systems Fall In Love

    When Two Systems Fall In Love
    Jul 9 2026

    When Two Systems Fall in Love

    Two people fall in love. That’s already complicated enough.

    Now imagine loving someone who is many — and bringing your own crowded room to meet them. Two systems, dozens of parts between them, all figuring out who’s actually dating whom.

    In this episode, we’re joined by Jenn and Naomi, two women living with Dissociative Identity Disorder who met in a DID support group, became close friends, and eventually fell in love. Together they offer a rare, honest, and often funny look at what it means to build a relationship when both partners are systems — down to color-coded triggers, competing playlists, and parts who have entire relationships of their own.

    But this conversation goes further than romance. Jenn and Naomi walk through two completely different roads to diagnosis — one through years of self-research, one through hospitalization — and the real damage that gets done when providers miss what’s actually happening. They talk about raising kids who read switching more fluently than most clinicians do. And they talk about what it’s like to finally be loved by someone who doesn’t need switching explained to them, because they live it too.

    If there’s a thread running through this entire conversation, it’s hope and trust. Trusting your own system. Trusting the process of healing. Trusting that a relationship can become a place where parts don’t have to survive alone anymore.

    Whether you’re a system, love someone who is, or are a clinician trying to understand DID from the inside, this episode offers real access to the complexity, the humor, and the tenderness that live inside all of it.

    In This Episode

    * Two very different roads to a DID diagnosis — and why so many systems still get missed

    * The specific loneliness of diagnosis, and of not being believed before it

    * What it’s actually like when both partners are systems

    * How kids often understand switching better than the adults around them

    * Navigating triggers, attachment, and communication between two systems

    * What good DID therapy looks like — and where even well-meaning therapists get it wrong

    * Why hope and trust keep showing up as the answer

    Timestamps00:01 — Meet Jenn & Naomi, and how two systems fell in love07:35 — Two very different roads to diagnosis — and why so many systems get missed24:05 — When your partner can clock every switch and no one else can31:00 — Parenting with DID: what kids pick up on that adults don’t40:00 — Two systems, dozens of relationships, triggers, and figuring out who’s actually walking down the street48:30 — What good DID therapy actually feels like59:00 — Hope, trust, and what they want every system to hear

    Contact Jenn & Naomi at pluralitysquared@gmail.com

    📣 New Workshop — July 29th

    Building & Using Your Inner World: Practical Tools to Make It Work for You

    Registration opens July 10 on Substack and at HealingMyParts.org.

    Thank you for listening and for being here with us! 🩷🫶💜



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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Forty Years of Showing Up: Dr. David Yeung on What Actually Heals

    Forty Years of Showing Up: Dr. David Yeung on What Actually Heals
    Jun 18 2026
    Show Notes:He trained on three continents. He was board-certified in Hong Kong, Britain, and Canada. And by the time he became a fully qualified psychiatrist — he knew absolutely nothing about Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).That’s not a confession Dr. David Yeung makes lightly. It’s the starting point for forty years of learning, unlearning, and quietly changing lives one session at a time.In this conversation, we sit down with Dr. Yeung and his editor and publisher Lyle Weinstein — the team behind the four-volume Engaging Multiple Personalities series — for a wide-ranging, deeply human conversation about what it actually takes to treat DID well, why so many systems still go unrecognized, and what forty years of listening has taught one psychiatrist about trauma, healing, and hope.This one moves.Dr. Yeung doesn’t talk like a textbook. He talks like someone who has sat with a patient holding a knife, a patient who planned to jump off a bridge after her session ended, a patient who had been hospitalized 28 times before anyone looked past the depression diagnosis. And he talks openly about what he got right, what he got wrong, and what his patients taught him along the way.Whether you’re a system, a clinician, or someone who has spent years wondering why no one ever saw you clearly — there’s something in here for you.Inside This Conversation* Why “treatment-resistant depression” is often a missed DID diagnosis in disguise* What it means that the whole system is evaluating the therapist — long before the therapist knows it* How listening (not technique) became the foundation of Dr. Yeung’s entire approach* What he said to a part who walked into session holding a knife* Why he no longer believes complete fusion is the goal — and what he thinks actually holds* The moment a book chapter got a mother her children back⏱️ Timestamps* 00:01:26 — “I was well-trained in psychiatry. I knew nothing about DID.” — the admission that changed his practice* 00:08:04 — The first time he saw a part front in his office — and what happened when he tried to call one out* 00:22:06 — “She’s not just one single identity” — why the therapist is always being evaluated by the whole system* 00:42:18 — A mother in a tiny village in Wales, a book, and a psychiatrist who finally changed his mind* 00:48:25 — A patient brings a knife into session — what Dr. Yeung said to the part holding it* 01:03:26 — Integration vs. functional multiplicity — his honest answer after four decadesResourcesDr. Yeung's Website Engaging MultiplesEngaging Multiple Personalities, Volume 1: Contextual Case Histories Audible Paperback KindleEngaging Multiple Personalities, Volume 2: Therapeutic Guidelines Audible Paperback KindleEngaging Multiple Personalities, Volume 3: Living in Multiplicity Audible Paperback KindleEngaging Multiple Personalities Volume 4: The Collected Blog Posts Volume 4: The Collected Blog Posts View on Web or download free EPub by scrolling to the bottom of Engaging Multiples WebsiteA Fractured Mind — Robert Oxnam (mentioned and recommended by Dr. Yeung)Man’s Search for Meaning —Viktor FranklFor more resources visit: healingmyparts.orgHealing My Parts Substack@healingmyparts on InstagramWhether you’re a system navigating your own journey or a clinician supporting one, we’d love to connect.Thank you for listening! 🩷🫶💜 Get full access to Healing My Parts at healingmyparts.substack.com/subscribe
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Finding Out at 64

    Finding Out at 64
    Jun 4 2026

    Episode Summary:

    Some people receive a DID diagnosis in their twenties.

    Some in their forties.

    And some spend more than six decades trying to understand themselves before finally finding an answer.

    In this deeply honest conversation, we’re joined by Tom from The Kids Are in Charge, diagnosed just 14 months ago at age 64.

    What began as a frightening wellness check during a period of profound loss ultimately opened the door to understanding a lifetime of experiences that suddenly made sense.

    Together we explore the grief of a late diagnosis, the challenges of being a man with DID, the isolation that can come with aging, and the surprising ways healing emerges when parts finally have room to be seen.

    But this conversation is also about something else:

    What happens when you spend 64 years believing one story about yourself—and then discover there’s another one underneath it?

    Thoughtful, vulnerable, funny, and full of hard-won wisdom, this is a conversation about survival, self-discovery, and learning what it means to finally live with compassion for all the parts that got you here.

    Inside This Conversation

    • Receiving a DID diagnosis later in life

    • Why dissociation is so often missed

    • Reinterpreting a lifetime of memories through a new lens

    • The unique challenges men face when navigating trauma and dissociation

    • Music, creativity, work, and the different parts that show up for each

    • Finding community later in life

    • Learning to care for younger parts

    • Moving from survival mode toward connection, compassion, and genuine relaxation

    A Line That Stays With You

    “I don’t know if I’m tired… or if this is what relaxed feels like.”

    Timestamps

    03:20 — The wellness check that changed everything

    06:50 — Looking back through a dissociative lens

    24:00 — Discovering new parts through video journals

    31:00 — When the wrong part shows up for work

    39:30 — Doubt, denial, and "Holy Moses" moments

    53:30 — Being a man with DID

    Resources

    Find Tom at The Kids Are In Charge on Instagram

    For more resources visit: healingmyparts.org

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    @healingmyparts on Instagram

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    Thank you for listening! 🩷🫶💜



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    1 hr and 7 mins
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