Dr. Christine Traxler is a Minnesota-based writer, author, and practicing physician in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. While this mental health memoir has a single author’s name, it was written by “The Fortress.” This dissociative identity disorder book is a ragtag collection of children, teens, and adults who inhabit a single physical body. After a decades-long and ongoing journey of healing from dissociative identity disorder, Dr. Traxler and the rest of the Fortress share their thoughts on their years of torment, self-hatred, and eventually self-love and commitment to a life of recovery and inner peace that is their collective experience today.

Dr. Traxler has practiced medicine since 1986 and specializes in family medicine. Because of her own history of psychological trauma, she often focuses her practice on identifying and managing the physical after-effects of trauma she sees in many of her patients. She has written dozens of medical study guides, a children’s book, and numerous college-level science books. She has proudly raised two daughters and cherishes two grandchildren.