The Art and Neuroscience of Transformational Change: Dr Tori Olds on PYP 553
Channel: Sick to Fit | Plant Yourself Podcast
Date: 2023-04-06

I found Tori Olds, PhD thanks to a fortuitous YouTube algorithm.

I had just discovered IFS (internal family systems), which seemed like a powerful approach to add to my coaching toolbox.

Dr Olds' videos on IFS were informative, wise, concise, well-constructed, and really helpful. So I reached out and asked if she'd be willing to come on the podcast to talk about IFS.

Dr Olds said that IFS wasn't really her expertise; she had studied it and incorporated it into her work and teaching, but her real interest was a physiological and psychological process that underpinned not just IFS, but every single method and technique that produces permanent, pervasive, transformational change.

OK, now I'm intrigued.

After watching her videos on Memory Reconsolidation, my mind was blown. Is such a thing possible? The total erasure of persistent, sometimes decades-long habits and symptoms?

It was like I've been spending my life trying to get better at pull ups and here comes someone telling me that levitation is possible. What the... ?

Between setting up the conversation and having it, I read (the first half of) two books by one of Dr Olds' mentors, Bruce Ecker: Depth Oriented Brief Therapy: How to Be Brief When You Were Trained to Be Deep and Vice Versa (1996), and Unlocking the Emotional Brain (2012).

Plus I read Alun Parry's How to Remove Trauma Response and joined his coaching program.

So I have a bit of a head start on most of my listeners, but not much!

Enjoy this mind-blowing conversation about what's possible in terms of changing old habits, patterns, and symptoms through a compassionate, brief, and reliable process.