Jun 25, 2021
My goal is to inspire you to heal by sharing all the different
healing modalities out there and this one is one of a kind. On this
episode, I was super excited to learn all about IFS (Internal
Family Systems) with Heather Smith who a Licensed Professional
Counselor and Certified in IFS and who has been practicing this
modality for years. We talked about the history of IFS, and how it
was developed by Dr. Richard Schwatz as a result of working with a
bulimic patient, what all of our "parts" are, and how IFS works to
access them and slowly and carefully "unburden" them so that they
can go back into harmony and do what they would rather do! We all
have parts, or "voices" whose role is to keep us protected from
accessing our deepest fears or wounds and while these protect us in
the short term and most often helped us survive and even thrive
professionally, these parts don't offer our long-term health and
wellbeing so when we feel unhappy or "stuck" looking at these parts
to heal them, may before extremely beneficial to set us
free.