Love All Your Parts
Life is a Festival #99: Richard Schwartz (Internal Family Systems)
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Does your inner world sometimes feels like a squabbling family, always reacting to the outside experience and to itself? You’re not alone. In fact there’s an entire style of therapy that specifically seeks to bring harmony to our Internal Family Systems.
As part of the inner work I undertook over this winter, I had the honor of working with IFS founder Richard Schwartz. After a series of sessions, we recorded this podcast to share what we learned together.
On the show Dick explains the Internal Family Systems model, from the way our different “parts” interact, to how our fundamental Self can create harmony and healing within the system. We explore the process of IFS healing and the shamanic experience of unburdening core wounds. We discuss the unique and potent pairing of psychedelics and IFS and why this model is so helpful in intimate relationships.
Trained as a systemic family therapist and academic, Richard Schwartz developed Internal Family systems in the 80s. He is also the founder of the Center for Self Leadership, now called the IFS institute and the author of a number of books and papers. His forthcoming book “No Bad Parts” comes out this year.
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Timestamps
:06 - Dick gives his “parts” a prep talks and describes “parts,” the “Self,” and the “8 Cs of Self Leadership”
:11 - Hindu Mythology, the Odyssey, and inner children
:19 - Three different kinds of parts: exiles, managers, and firefighters
:23 - The process and goals of IFS therapy
:37 - Unburdening wounded parts
:45 - IFS and psychedelics
:56 - IFS in intimate relationships
Graphics Designed by Andy McErlean
Audio Engineering by Trevor Coulter
Theme song ““Peculiar Colors” [Manjumasi]“ by dj atish