Living with Split: Maggie Walters on the Journey of Multiple Personality Disorder and the Power of Storytelling

Maggie Walters lives in the Northern Rivers of NSW, where she spends her days developing her writing skills and raising three teenagers. After meeting her husband, she immigrated to Australia from the US, and spent the bulk of her career in various marketing roles before returning to her long-held love of the written word.  Expression through words has become a driving passion in Maggie's life, a tool for healing her own abusive past.  Maggie is an active member of Byron Writers Festival and a member of several writing groups that meet regularly and continue to nurture her craft. As a trauma survivor, she shares her courageous commitment to wholeness, while confronting stereotypes surrounding Multiple Personality Disorder also known as Dissociative Identity Disorder. She educates and encourages others to break down the barriers and stigma around mental health. In the 155th episode of The HYBRID Author Podcast host Joanne Zara Ellen Morrell, author of young adult fiction, women's fiction and short non fiction for authors, chats to Maggie about: what motivated Maggie to write 'Split' and share her story: a very intimate look at living with Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) how she approached writing about such a personal and complex experience balancing being open about her struggles and crafting a narrative that would also educate readers about the realities of this condition feedback she's received from readers who may be dealing with similar experiences and how sharing her story has impacted her own healing journey and much more.  https://www.maggie-walters.com/