Suritaplus is a multi-faceted woman who, at the age of 17, left her unsafe family home for a college 600 miles away to get a degree in education. At age 43, she was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder and began the discovery, acceptance, and ultimate embrace of her internal system of personality parts. She has spent most of her life in the classroom as both a student and a teacher. She has continued to embrace the arts, participating in dissociative writer's workshops, taking adult ballet classes, sewing, singing, and has resumed her study of the cello. She lives by the ocean and continues to embrace learning to thrive.