About this episode
Similarly to the Pixar movie, INSIDE OUT, where her emotions are portrayed as totally different characters that experience different experiences and roles and access different memories. In IFS therapy, they refer to these characters as parts. A majority of your parts will take on protective roles, he uses the example of managers and firefighters, but other parts carry pain or trauma from past experiences, exiles, but crucially, there are NO BAD PARTS.
In the therapy aspect you tend to work on learning to sit with each of the parts, hearing and respecting their roles, so you can better understand your own system and how to work alongside it.
- centered self: Compassionate, curious, calm, clear, courageous, confident, creative, connected. Present, patient, playful, persistent, and keeps perspective
- Exiles: wounded and carrying pain. Abandonment, fear, loneliness, shame, anxious,
- Protectors: firefighters and managers. Firefighters deal with immediate threats, Distract, avoid, dissociate, Mangers work to keep you from future problems. Hyper-vigilant, avoidant,
- The goal is to access the qualities of the Centered self to work with these wounded parts to
SOURCE:
- https://www.ceangail.ie/blog/tips-for-starting-internal-family-systems
- https://ifs-institute.com/
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/internal-family-systems-therapy
Read Julie's Medium Blog.
Support JULIE (and the show!)
Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON.
Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com
Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK.
Info on War Tax Resistance.
Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund
The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Read Julie's Medium Blog.
Support JULIE (and the show!)
Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON.
Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com
Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Get every episode summarized
Each time Make Your Damn Bed publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.
Email me new episodesFree for 3 shows. No card needed.
Hosts & guests
No transcript yet
This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.
More episodes
More from Make Your Damn Bed
1950 || the mask, the shadow, the animus, the self
Make Your Damn Bed
1849 || you are what you avoid
Make Your Damn Bed
1848 || when intentions aren't enough
Make Your Damn Bed
1847 || being the "good guy" vs. becoming the villain
Make Your Damn Bed