Safety First for Autism and DID
15 Red Flags In Relationships by Lysa TerKeurst
15 Red Flags In Relationships by Lysa TerKeurst
15 Red Flags In Relationships by Lysa TerKeurst
It might be impossible to recover from DID if you are not safe. Download this guide for help determining whether your relationships are safe enough.
7 Ways to Feel Safe in Your Home
15 Red Flags In Relationships by Lysa TerKeurst
15 Red Flags In Relationships by Lysa TerKeurst
You can "be" safe without "feeling" safe. Feeling safe is known as "felt safety." Read about some ways that you can feel more safe in your home, even if you have autism and DID.
Autistic Nesting
15 Red Flags In Relationships by Lysa TerKeurst
Teach Yourself To Have Glimmers
We created our first experiences of felt safety through autistic nesting. Choosing to decorate our home with things we treasured was an empowering part of recovery since we have both autism and trauma.
Teach Yourself To Have Glimmers
Teach Yourself To Have Glimmers
Teach Yourself To Have Glimmers
Glimmers are the opposite of triggers. Looking for, noticing, and creating glimmers creates a sense of felt safety when you have autism and dissociative identity disorder.
Art Therapy
Teach Yourself To Have Glimmers
Art Therapy
"Fear doesn't understand creativity." (Elizabeth Gilbert) Art is an awesome way to create felt safety and overcome fear, especially if you have autism and trauma.
Boundaries
Teach Yourself To Have Glimmers
Art Therapy
As a part of recovery when you have autism and DID, you can learn how to keep safe boundaries between yourself and others.
10 Healthy Ways to Release Rage
Alternatives to Self-Harm and Distraction Techniques
10 Healthy Ways to Release Rage
When not released in a healthy way, anger and rage can destroy felt safety and hinder the trauma recovery process when you have autism and DID. Mental Health America lists 10 healthy ways to release rage.
Self-Harm and Autism
Alternatives to Self-Harm and Distraction Techniques
10 Healthy Ways to Release Rage
It is difficult to be safe when you are self-harming. Unfortunately, autists are more likely to self-harm than allistics. Learn more about autism and self-harm in order to work towards stabilization if you have autism and trauma.
Alternatives to Self-Harm and Distraction Techniques
Alternatives to Self-Harm and Distraction Techniques
Alternatives to Self-Harm and Distraction Techniques
These are some ideas from the NHS for helping delay or avoid self-harm. Discover which ones best suit you and your parts, as a system with both autism and dissociative identity disorder.
Staying Safer with Self-Harm
Secret Scars: Uncovering and Understanding the Addiction of Self-Injury
Alternatives to Self-Harm and Distraction Techniques
Staying safe is essential for recovery when you have both autism and trauma. If you aren't able to stop, at least follow this guide to stay as safe as possible when you are self-harming.
Secret Scars: Uncovering and Understanding the Addiction of Self-Injury
Secret Scars: Uncovering and Understanding the Addiction of Self-Injury
Secret Scars: Uncovering and Understanding the Addiction of Self-Injury
This book will help you understand an addiction to self-injury. It helped us understand our motivations and uncover coping strategies that are very helpful even if you have both autism and DID.
Psalm 139
Secret Scars: Uncovering and Understanding the Addiction of Self-Injury
Secret Scars: Uncovering and Understanding the Addiction of Self-Injury
When we don't experience felt safety because we have autism and trauma, we turn to the only one who can truly keep us safe, our Creator. Psalm 139 was the first passage we read in the Bible and we still cling to it decades later.