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TW: Healthy Coping - Listening to Music (Mk Survivor w/Polyfragmented DID)

2,431 views · Published 23 October 2018 · 8:43 · Indexed 18 October 2026

Channel: Dylan Groves · 2018 · People & Blogs

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Hi everyone, in this video, Kayvon talks about some of the effects of a trauma we just endured and reintroduces our Healthy Coping Challenge series, which we are now doing in a new way. They then talk about how we are currently using music to cope with our pain. 

Some potentially triggering topics mentioned include: background noise, my eyes looking heavy due to exhaustion and dissociation (incl. splitting), violent trauma (no detail), integration, victim-blaming and unwanted advice as a reaction to learning of other people's traumas, vulnerability, disclosing details to those I trust, our Healthy Coping Challenge series, safely listening to music as a survivor of trauma-based mind control, when dissociative walls form and are encoded by music that plays repetitively in my head, avoiding triggers, the beautiful/joyous/spiritual nature of certain music, the first song listed below, Paganism/Earth-based spirituality, meditation, energy work, love of nature, Norse mythology, holding dual-awareness of trauma and a Higher Power as a mindfulness practice

At 7:44, we apologize for the sound of a siren that was audible to us at the time. The sound doesn't, however, become audible to us in the recording until around 7:58. It stops being audible to us around 8:12. 

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A playlist of all of the Healthy Coping Challenge videos we have made so far: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtLfUhTHFspJl8AmESaevQ9VppC8lSxN6

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The song we are currently focusing on most in order to cope and heal:

Agalloch - Not Unlike the Waves: https://youtu.be/yhFMujUm1zg

Genre: folk/black metal

Possible themes include: aurora, wave-particle duality, Norse mythology

Album cover: black, white and gray pattern with an upside down black bird and black text

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Some other songs we've been focusing on in the last week:

The Sisters of Mercy - Marian: https://youtu.be/d8m1nRzsOJM

Genre: post-punk

Possible themes include: depression, drowning in a sea of despair, reaching out for help

Album cover: red and black pattern with white text

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Agalloch - Falling Snow: https://youtu.be/CNI1sKvJgQc

Genre: folk/black metal

Possible themes include: the cycle of life, decay and death

Album cover: black, white and gray pattern with an upside down black bird and black text

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Yob - Adrift in the Ocean: https://youtu.be/wnijxVBQ1A4

Genre: doom metal

Possible themes include: awakening spiritually while struggling to stay afloat in a sea of suffering

Album cover: a multicolored (orange, beige, blue, black, white, gray and greenish gray) watery and mountainous landscape with the outline of a dripping white moon with orange and white text inside 

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We noticed earlier in preparing for this video that all of the songs we were focusing on most pertain to the element of water. Our birthday is in exactly one week, which makes us a Scorpio (a water sign). We've thusly chosen to take this time to contemplate the element of water, how we can more healthily consume it and better honor it in our spiritual practices.

~ Katy & co.

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Update (11/30/19): In order to honor ourselves and our non-binary gender, we are going back to our former front name Dylan - https://youtu.be/RgTi07WrOH4

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