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Working With Dissociation
My frustration boiled over halfway into my third two-week meditation retreat. As training for my mindfulness-based graduate psychology program, I had now been meditating regularly for a year and a half and attended multiple retreats - yet I still felt just as completely flat and disconnected as I did when I started. Disconnected from myself, from my emotions, from the picturesque Rocky Mountain winter landscape that surrounded me. From pretty much everything.
The end of undergrad had brought with it…
What is Internal Family Systems (IFS)? Part II: Self & Self-Leadership
Most of us come to therapy or coaching with the goal of feeling better, reducing negative habits, healing trauma, etc.
The good news is that all of that is possible.
But. It isn’t possible in the ways we usually try to get there, which is some version of waging a war on the parts of us we think are “problems” and trying to control or get rid of them.
That isn’t the goal in IFS.
As I mentioned in the last post, we can’t get rid of parts of us even if we wanted to. And I recommend that you take with a grain of salt any therapy or coaching work that says otherwise.
The really, really good news is that the actual goal of IFS therapy is…
