Download Healthcare Guide Download DID Emergency Card April 2020 Violence can have unexpected effects for survivors, even after the violence has stopped. If you’ve survived child sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, or sexual assault, some [...]

For 25 years, I have moved through the world as if I am one by paying attention to my thoughts and feelings and making decisions about what, when and how I do things. During this [...]

Olga Trujillo, JD and Patricia Moen Share Tips (available for download) on Enhancing Victim Advocacy, Legal Advocacy and Access to Justice through Trauma- Informed Approach[...]

Olga shares her story with McLean Hospital's project, Deconstructing Stigma: Changing Attitudes About Mental Health as part of their campaign to change attitudes about mental health through interviews and photographs with people across the [...]

Olga was a guest on the Mindful Things Podcast discussing dissociative identity disorder. She explains how she retreated within her own mind each time she experienced trauma and discusses her dedication to helping others [...]

A few weeks ago I described some of the ways that people helped me talk about what had happened to me as a child and by talking about it, begin the healing process. These people [...]

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Child Abuse Prevention Month. I am reposting this for those who know someone who has been abused. This is how you can help. We all know -- [...]

Now after many years of healing I am happy, and not just on the surface. Despite how difficult it can still be to grieve and remember all I have been through, I am proud [...]

In Latino culture you aren’t supposed to talk about your problems. You aren’t supposed to think about yourself if you are a woman. You are supposed to think about your family and care for [...]

I've been healing from the trauma of Child Sexual Abuse for years off and on. My work both personally and professionally has been to help others understand the impact of trauma and more recently [...]

My upcoming memoir, The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor’s Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder, emphasizes the healing process and the nature of resilience. These installments from Chapter One contain some descriptions of violence [...]

We all know and many of us are close to people who have survived child sexual abuse or rape. Chances are, many of you reading this are survivors yourself. We often encourage survivors to [...]

The more I think about it, the more I marvel at the skill of the psychiatrist who helped me heal from Dissociative Identity Disorder. As I look back on our work together, I can [...]

In order for me to learn how to stop dissociating, I first had to figure out when I was doing it. I had to recognize how it felt and learn to see the difference [...]

After years of healing the abuse I suffered as a child and adolescent, I still found that I was emotionally unavailable at times. I've worked very hard at letting myself go and letting people [...]

One of the things that made my healing so successful was working with a psychiatrist that understood that reaching in could be harmful. He knew that reaching into my mind to pull out  the [...]

The Sum of My Parts is a memoir I have been writing since last February. It's about how I developed Dissociative Identity Disorder, DID, discovered I had it and then details the healing process. [...]

In responding to survivors of sexual and domestic violence in communities of color and immigrant communities a different approach from our traditional models is needed. Survivors for the most part don't call the police, [...]

I've been doing a lot of trainings lately for multidisciplinary audiences on The Impact of Physical and Sexual Violence. The Impact is almost always very traumatic for victim/survivors and we depending the type of [...]

The holidays can be hard for anyone. It can be a time of stress, sadness, mourning and profound disappointment. For me it has been and continues to be a time that I am triggered [...]

Over the past 17 years off and on my psychiatrist used a number of tools that helped me learn about the healing process from Dissociative Identity Disorder. In writing my memoir and in preparing [...]

Survivors of sexual violence often have a hard time going to the doctor or the dentist. Doctors have a job to do and a limited amount of time to do it in. They are [...]

I get a lot of questions about my father when I present on my personal experience. What would make a father hurt their child the way my father hurt me? Its been something I've [...]

I just finished writing two chapters where I describe some of the sessions I had with my psychiatrist in the first couple years of my work with him. He was very skillful in illustrating [...]

When I first found out I had Dissociative Identity Disorder I panicked. I was afraid about people finding out, about losing my job and losing my relationship. I thought it meant I was 'crazy'. [...]

I've started writing about the therapeutic process I went through to heal from the abuse and the Dissociative Identity Disorder I developed. The more I think about it the more I marvel at the [...]

Over the past few months I've been asked what helped me survive when I was growing up. In the book that I've been writing I've been capturing the things people did and also the [...]

My psychiatrist and I have worked well together because of the safe and respectful relationship he set up with me. He was strict with boundaries but only with respect to what we talked about [...]

Over the past few months, I've had a number of people ask me what I do when I'm not training or working on my book. So I thought this holiday weekend would be the [...]