This exercise is similar to making a personal scrapbook or a souvenir album only it is based around the internal system. You will need a scrapbook, or notebook, or a binder full of paper. All of the system parts will be given a page (or 2 or 3 – you decide) to use for themselves.

The pages are to be used by the individual system parts to introduce and describe themselves, their activities, their interests, their friends, etc. They can each decorate and design their page however they so choose, and can supply as much information about themselves as they can. Use drawings, or photos, or collage, or poems, or lists of facts to describe yourself.

The purpose of this exercise is to assist your system in getting to know each other, to increase system communication, and to lower amnesiac barriers between the different parts. As everybody fills out their personal pages, they are providing a good summary for the others in the system to get to know who they are, what they like, what they don’t like, who they know, etc.

Of course there will be those who are resistant to telling anything at all about themselves to anybody. These parts do not need to be forced to participate. There will be plenty of other folks that find this exercise to be a fun and creative way to meet each other. Encourage as much of your system as possible to participate in making their own page, and in looking through the other pages. Getting to know your system is an absolute essential part to your healing and recovery.

Do not show this book to anyone you do not trust, as there is no need to set yourself up for uncomfortable situations with people who are not open to understanding dissociative disorders. This book is primarily intended for you to get to know you and all your other peoples.

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