Your Moving Parts- A Brief Intro to the IFS Therapy Model

Episode 12 is about the Internal Family Systems psychotherapy model that is powerfully transformative. This model of therapy highlights that our "inner parts" contain valuable qualities and our core Self knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole. 

In this episode you’ll learn more about : 

• How parts of ourselves learn to adapt and react to certain environments to survive. 
• How certain behaviors are formed at an early age as a way to protect ourselves from our deepest vulnerabilities. 
• The 8 C’s of Self - a blueprint than can bring healing to all of our parts

More Thoughts: 

The more I work with therapy models such as Bowen Family Therapy and Internal Family Systems  the more I see how patterns and conditioned behaviors are REAL. 

️If you’re not acknowledging your family patterns , stress responses, learned behaviors, pain points, and especially generational trauma …then you’re  most likely projecting them onto someone else. Most likely your romantic partner, kids, friends or coworkers. 

Acknowledging generational trauma doesn’t mean your blaming your parents, elders, or any other family member. Nor is it condoning abuse or hurtful interactions.

 It’s about validating the pain you’ve experienced  and everything you've been through—especially the hurt that you most likely tried to push down. Acknowledging the pain is not about getting stuck in a victim mentality, it's more about creating space to feel, deal and heal so that eventually you can unburden yourself and your internal family system. 

The IFS model is not about what's "wrong" with you, it's about what happened to you. We can honor certain behaviors or parts that were self-create to protect ourselves inside our own family systems and environments. 

We often push things away or suppress them to “move on.” It’s a survival response. However that pattern can often turn into projection or transmission of the very pain that come sometimes turn into violence and hate. We can own our parts, heal them, and discover compassion for ourselves and others. 

I invite you to take a moment and scan your physical and emotional body. What have your pushed down or blocked out so that you could survive ?

Is it possible that what you couldn’t process in your childhood or adolescence is starting to come up years later?  

Maybe the stored trauma that’s been passed down your ancestral line is showing up as re-occurring  body aches,  back spasms, chronic pain, inflammation, or intense/irrational  emotions ?  Have you noticed any heavy moods that just don’t seem to go away?

Perhaps your inner child is begging you for attention waiting for you to acknowledge what others in your family ignored, denied, dismissed, or minimized. 

I’m inviting you to grow with me. To acknowledge that pain you’ve held inside and unburden yourself from the weight of it all. Whatever you’re going through, or went through, you CAN GROW through it. We can grow through it- together. Let’s turn our growing pains into growth spurts. 

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