Talking to My Selves
A Journey into Awareness
by Betty Hughes
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Betty Hughes, the Author
Dissociative Identity Disorder, Talking to My Selves, childhood trauma, dissociative disorders, religious indoctrination, recurring despair, early childhood trauma, fight/flight mode, meaninglessness, surviving early trauma, personal growth models, expressive art, liberating creativity.
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The Journey into Awareness
Betty Hughes has written a unique, extraordinary and important book. It is a story
showing the devastating effect which religious indoctrination, combined with early
childhood trauma has on the development of the person. The gift of the book is the
way in which Betty, burdened by the crippling weight of guilt and shame and impoverished
by a sense of detachment from her central self, is able to describe the never-
At ninety she is able to say: “I used to live every day as if it was my last but
the crucial need to be constantly poised on red alert, permanently equipped for the
unknown, eternally prepared for an unidentified, life and death, threat lurking round
the corner has ceased. It has been my experience that living frozen in fight/flight
mode deadens life and casts an unending vista of meaninglessness into the future.
Living with the long-
“It is never too late to grow, to change…and this book might inspire others to come forward.” Dr Valerie Sinason