So, you got your “starter pack” from last week’s article and you’re ready to navigate the healing journey? Well, grab your compass because healing complex trauma is never straight and narrow. What sort of compass, you may ask, because surely we aren’t going on a literal hike or something? And you’re right. We are embarking …
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One night on Instagram, a beautiful soul from my Complex-PTSD community asked, How do I heal from this? It was a humbling moment because the answer can’t be summed up in a single comment. It was also a reminder that I asked the same question when I began my healing journey. We all ask this …
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Death of a loved one, a relationship ending, or loss of a job are life-changing events that can be devastating. When grieving a major loss, we tend to feel more than just sad. We may also feel fear, anger, shame, guilt, abandonment, or we may even get defensive. But in times like these, there is …
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Last week’s heal-along was my example of how to heal our parts when access to the Exile is denied. This one is my IFS work on freeing one of my Exiles. And so, it’s a companion piece to our third article in this IFS series, which is on healing the Exile (here). Interestingly enough, the …
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This is a companion article to this week’s topic in our IFS therapy series. That article is on Polarized Parts, what they are and how you can mediate your own. Now I’m sharing the work I’ve done with my own Polarized Parts. From how I discovered them, to how I got to know them, to …
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Check out our featured image for a moment, because it’s a great analogy. We have all seen the classic angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other. Both being polar opposites of the ethereal realm, they naturally despise each other. And they are fighting for the owner of those shoulders to “Pick me!” …
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Once we get the Protectors’ permission to examine the Exile, we need to know what we should expect. Healing the Exile is a process of first Witnessing its pain, then three R’s: Reparent, Retrieve, and Release its burdens. But before we start, we must be mindful of IFS rule #1: always be in Self when …
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So, you’re ready to accept the unique weirdness of IFS therapy so that you can understand yourself on the deepest level imaginable. You’re in the right place because that’s what we will be covering here. How to open up a dialogue with our parts and understand each part’s positive intent. This is a continuation of …
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Where trauma informed therapies are concerned, there tends to be an unspoken rule. That the weirder the therapy, the more highly effective. So, when I say that IFS therapy is so weird, it’s downright woo, I’m also saying how effective it is. If you’ve ever wondered “Why do I do some of the things that …
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As I’ve said before, whenever I have a personal experience that goes with a topic we are covering, I share. It’s a great way to connect with my readers on a personal level. And since we tend to learn from each other’s stories, I like to think that my heal-alongs can do that. Since we …
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