Oct 11, 2021
Living in Alignment 43
Internal Family Systems with Jen Patterson
“Our parts that respond to trauma are in extreme roles, but what’s beautiful about this is that they can heal from the extreme-ness but we don’t have to get rid of them”
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We all have different parts inside of us. This is perfectly normal, not psychotic. There are no bad parts, from exiles to protectors to managers and firefighters. But our relationship with some parts is often better than others, and a wonderful path to healing and growth is to repair our relationship with all of our parts.
In today’s episode we are going to explore the wonderful path of the internal family system with guest expert Jennifer Patterson. Jen will give us a quick introduction to basic internal family system concepts, what it's like to experience different parts of us, and practice IFS for healing and restoring wholeness. Jennifer is an Internal Family Systems Practitioner, a PhD biologist and a co-parent to a lovely, growing teen. She’s committed to helping people both find self-compassion and healing within themselves and to spreading that self-compassion and healing power to others.
“I always like to notice the parallels between IFS and shamanic healing, they talk about part of our souls will orbit around trauma ”
The origin story of IFS
Introduction of the Internal Family Systems model
The many common parts including the Self and relationships between our parts.
Learn about managers, protectors , exiles and firefighters
Why do we become reactive when we’re triggered ? and why we turn into addictive behavior?
The SELF energy
How does the IFS model help us to work with all parts of who we are ?
How does it impact our wellbeing and parenting ?
A practice to start unraveling your self parts
“My Self is not different from your Self, but my self parts are different from your parts”