I’ve heard so many survivors speak about the need for better resources for healing Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). I’ve written previously about Trauma and Identity: 5 Ways to Practice Integration and how a theory for DID recovery helped me heal what was not DID but was a very fractured and splintered, fragmented and disrupted personality. On today’s show, however, we took the DID conversation to a whole new and very specific DID level.

My guest was Bunny Stevens, DID survivor and author of Unholy Union: A Memoir of Clergy Sexual Abuse Within the Salvation Army. When you hear the quality of her voice (full of energy!) and the clarity of her thoughts (full of hard won wisdom) you’ll understand why I loved this interview. Whether you have DID or are just healing trauma and/or PTSD you’ll benefit from hearing:

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• why Bunny was silent about her trauma for 50 years
  
• how therapy brought “a new dawn”
  
• an overview of Bunnyy’s DID recovery process
  
• what happened when secrecy ended
  
• the success of healing and how it has changed Bunny’s life
  
• 1 process that might help your recovery
  

In her book, Bunny mentions a DID resource that we alluded to but didn’t say the title of on air: Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder, by Frank W. Putnam.

My fave quote:

I was living “in spite of” and then I came to a point when “in spite of” wasn’t working anymore.

In her professional life, Bunny Stevens has been a newspaper columnist, photographer, and director of Christian education and middle school ministries at a large Presbyterian Church. She has participated in life’s more poignant moments as a minister in the Universal Life Church. Now living in a tiny cottage on the Oregon Coast, Bunny participates in the daily activities that make her new home special—giving back by volunteering as chef to the homeless outreach program and at the assisted living facility in her area, and running half-marathons. A  former minister and local community builder Bunny Stevens is the author of a powerful new memoir, Unholy Union: A Memoir of Clergy Sexual Abuse Within the Salvation Army. For more information visit www.unholyunion.com.