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House of Honesty © 2009 “It’s a beautiful day today. Is everyone here? Cathie, Katie, Baby, Tina, Cat? Where’s Cat?” Everyone but Cat spoke up and I felt a tug of worry. I wondered where she was. I searched inside myself, …
ANNIVERSARY: AUGUST 22
Fifty sounds like such a lot of years, and it is. I recall that ten years married seemed a lot, too—so full of deeply held feelings, and all the unknowns that are mostly all ordinary now. I consider the meaning …
ConversationsLIVE with Cyrus Webb
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Review: Intima, A Journal of Narrative Medicine
Photo by Morgane Le Breton on Unsplash “In unpacking precarious relationships, deaths, and more, Klatzker’s relationship with her psychotherapist is one that models seeing her as a whole person and not just the sum of her parts…” The Intima is a literary journal …
Review from Trauma Professional
Dissociative Identity Disorder is the result of a child growing up with pain and conflict, abuse and neglect, an environment that prevents the natural integration of experiences into a single consciousness. Not integrating in this manner is an adaptation, keeping …
PUB DAY!
Mental Health Awareness Month
YOU WILL NEVER BE NORMAL on display for Mental Health Awareness Month at Village Well Books, Culver City. Today my first book, YOU WILL NEVER BE NORMAL, meets the world. I put my whole self into this memoir and I’m …
Counting Down
(Photo by Aram Sabah on Unsplash) The waiting is large as we count down to the book release date of May 4, silence in a void of stilled voices, anticipation and apprehension together, delicious and harsh, awaiting the launch of …
Invisible Grounding
A good friend forwarded a NY Times story to me about the complicated grief following the death of abusive family members. She thought of me because of my book, You Will Never Be Normal, about living and healing with dissociative …
Interview with Author: Catherine Klatzker (from Medium)
Photo by Biegun Wschodni on Unsplash PTSD, DID, all those acronyms First, what is Dissociative Identity Disorder, or DID? Dissociative disorder used to be known as Multiple Personality Disorder and that’s how many people still think of it. To dissociate …
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The Good Stuff
My books have arrived! The long-awaited happy day. I have carefully printed, cut out, and affixed address labels to padded envelopes, written notes, and signed copies of gift books to send as thank you to a few champion supporters and …