Fractured Minds
October 12, 2018
Hosted by Annette Smith and Myrna Thatcher
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If you have a marble, put it in some boiling hot water, let it sit and then drop it in ice cold water, the marble will crack. This is a good analogy of how the mind “creates” different personalities as a result of experiencing exorbitant trauma. Last week, we talked about Annette’s traumatic events that created four personalities also called alters: the little girl who was afraid of everyone; the confident one who controlled all the others; the one full of rage and anger and the one who didn’t like to be touched. How can a person’s mind be split and then become whole? What happens with all the trauma that the personalities held? Where do the personalities go? Will they return? How does Annette live without them? These questions will be addressed. In the rest of the show we’ll be talking with someone whose mind is still fragmented- how this happened, how having DID affects her life. Nicale wants to tell her story so that others like her will know there is a way out.
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We give a voice to the voiceless, to those who can't or won't speak out for themselves. We speak up for the rights of all those who are poor and needy. These include people who are and have been sexually abused, who are and have been physically abused, who are suffering with addictions, who are in unhealthy relationships, who are bullied and are the bullies, who are suffering from mental illness, who are deemed by society as unloveable and who feel hopeless. Our social services are overworked and understaffed, so when people are being abused or are in difficult life situations, many times they feel they are not heard. Our program provides a platform for their voices, suggestions for the situations and hope for tomorrow. Often times a person just needs someone to listen. With the right understanding and by opening up to someone who has similar life experiences, one can see there is hope. Life doesn't have to end. You can embrace and trust someone one small step at a time.
Annette Smith and Myrna Thatcher
Myrna Thatcher, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, has been in private practice for 23 years. Seventeen of those years she has partnered with Annette Smith who is Certified in Adlerian Psychology and is a Lay Christian Advisor. Annette's life experiences intertwined with Myrna's professional training create a unique healing experience for clients. Together they authored a book which details Annette's horrendous childhood and the long journey of how God turned her curse into a blessing. When you walk alongside sexually abused children who crawl in your lap, cry and tell you their stories, or you have an adult sit in your office, look in your face, call you a friend, then walk out and shoot himself, it gives you enough experience to know what you are looking at. We have had years of practice of talking to people who are so low, broken and hopeless, that we have to literally reach down and pull them from death's door. Sometimes you take off your professional mask and cry with the client, letting them know you are a human being who cares. The reason we are doing this show is to let everyone know that someone cares. There is a lifeline who they can call. Grab us. We'll listen. We'll talk with you and give you the hope you need. Some of these words are also coming from a person who tried to commit suicide three times, who was on her last hope and also had to reach out and finally found someone who would reach back. We have a Mighty God who will speak the words through us.
