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Working with shame requires working with the somatic experience of shame. In IFS protective parts generate body constriction, tension and tightness to keep younger parts holding shame hidden and small. This post explores this polarisation in some detail through the IFS Therapy Lens.

Embodied curiosity is the quiet superpower in IFS. Discover one of the key 8c's of IFS can transform your relationship with your parts.

A hard truth most people don't get is that people learn to be abused at home. They learn in their family-of-origin through caregiver interactions who has power, who must submit, who is allowed needs, and whose needs are forbidden. Here, we look at victim/perpetrator dynamics through the healing lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy.

Protective parts in IFS Therapy are driven by fear. Find out what the 10 most common protective fears are, and how to negotiate effectively with protective parts so they will relax and trust.

This post examines people pleasing through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy. Learn how people pleasers come to be prominent parts of the psyche and how you can befriend and help them transform through the IFS Therapy process.

Suffer from Perfectionism, or get called a Perfectionist? Here's an IFS Understanding of Perfectionism and Perfectionists and how to connect to this systems of parts.

In Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, distinguishing between parts and their burdens is essential in understanding the change process. Here I write about this important difference.

The Inner Critic protects against a range of Exiles in IFS. Learn about the specific types of Exiles that Inner Critics Protect in Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy

Gaining permission from protective parts before working with Exiles in IFS is essential. Here's why, and how to go about it.

Proactive manager parts are extremely active in shame-prone systems. Find out what they look like here and start to notice them.

In Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, working with protective parts is key, as these parts have survival strategies from early life.

The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model holds that each of us has a Self - who each of us is at our core with our parts separate. In this post, discover what the Self is in IFS, and why it's important to the change process.

Harsh Inner Critics are some of the most challenging parts to deal with both in therapy and in life. Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy doesn't try and shut the Inner Critic down or push it away; instead we turn toward it with curiosity and ask it how it is trying to help us? This sets the scene for a new relationship to build, and change to happen.

What are trailheads in Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, and how are they different from what is commonly known as a "trigger"? Find out why the trailhead is a more useful concept for therapy and the change process by reading more.

In Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, shame is a two-part problem: critics that shame, and exiles that hold that shame. In this post found out more about how we can help the parts involved in the shame process, and transform them back into their original state.