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How To Get Out Of Paralysis When Making Decisions- The IFS Way
My partner Jeff is facing a lot of big decisions right now. He has two very different job opportunities potentially pulling him into two vastly different lifestyles. He has to decide where he’s going to live once our short term Airbnb in Forestville, CA, which came as...
How To Deepen Your IFS Practice Outside The Therapy Office
I love one-on-one Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work. I am forever indebted to my IFS therapist Nancy Morgan and to IFS founder Dick Schwartz, who I’ve been blessed to do some one-on-one work with from time to time. I highly recommend seeing an IFS therapist if...
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 Neurotypical/ Neurodivergent (ADHD, autism, etc) Caregiver/ Disabled care receiver Falsely empowered/ Disempowered One up/ One...
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, appreciation, nurturing care, safe touch, comfort, and someone to have fun with. All human beings deserve to feel special, chosen,...
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. Practices like meditation, prayer, yoga, reading spiritual books, going to spiritual retreats, or chanting mantras or positive...
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 doctor to pursue an unknown life of God knows what, and I wanted to be Liz Gilbert. I hadn’t published any books of my...