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How To Discern Whether Your Unbalanced Relationship Is Fixable- Or Not
Pop psychology uses a lot of lingo to describe various imbalances in relationship: Overfunctioning/ Underfunctioning Narcissist/ Codependent...
How To Love A Trauma Survivor
Everyone deserves to be loved, especially the people who didn’t get love growing up. We all deserve companionship, affection, attention,...
What If You Want To Practice IFS But You Can’t Afford Or Access A Therapist?
For many of us on a healing journey or a spiritual path, the pursuit of peace, love, and transcendence has been both a refuge and a compass....
Is Liz Gilbert’s Latest Memoir Vulnerable DIsclosure Or TMI Overdisclosure?
Like almost everyone else I know, I loved Liz Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love. I read it right after I blew up my own life by quitting my stable job as a...
Want To Learn Peer To Peer IFS Parts Processing?
In 2019 at the IFS conference in Denver where I taught a workshop with Dick Schwartz about using IFS for treatment of medical conditions, I saw a...
Am I The Only One Feeling Helpless To Stop The Wreckage Of My Country?
I haven’t written about politics for a while, not because people send me hate mail and unsubscribe from my newsletter list every time I do, not...
The Antidote To “Spiritual Bypassing”
When I first learned about the idea of “spiritual bypassing,” it was shattering to my parts. I felt busted, lost, ashamed, scared, embarrassed, and...
Don’t Be Tricked By What You Think Is Intuition, Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we explored how, to use IFS language, our “parts” can trick us into thinking we’re being guided by intuition or spirit,...
Don’t Be Tricked By What You Think Is Intuition, Part 1
I was talking to a friend who gave me permission to share her story in my upcoming book Relationsick about how over-giving, fawning, and people...
You Can Heal Your “Parts” & Be The Good Enough Primary Attachment Figure You Never Had
I’m new in town, so I’m trying to make new friends and I met someone today who had never heard of IFS. She was a longtime seeker with a tough past...
How To Heal When Your Perpetrator Expects A Hall Pass: A Step By Step Process
You know the drill. You go to the person who hurt you. You say “When you did x, y, and z, I felt hurt, abandoned, neglected, tortured, betrayed,...
Need A Peer To Peer IFS Parts Processing Partner?
On Monday, August 11, we’ll be teaching our LOVE SCHOOL participants how to do peer to peer parts processing with Internal Family Systems, as a way...