Hi EM. Your experience sounds really familiar to me, too. Like Pegasus wrote in the psych forum, I would suggest you go back to basic grounding techniques. Engaging the 'thinking' brain (as opposed to the emotional brain) is a really powerful grounding technique. I think Pegasus' patience trick is a stroke of genius! There are other grounding techniques on a video on youtube - if you search for 'grounding techniques' it should come up with a video clip of a therapist describing some for you.

Soemthing else I read recently gave me food for thought, and I'll give you a link to it. On this page there are several articles about working with child parts and knowing when you ready to delve into memory work.

http://discussingdissociation.wordpress.com/page/2/

Maybe something on there will speak to where you find yourself on your healing journey now.