num_pages: 216
description:  Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mindand healing the many parts that make you who you are.Is there just one you? Weve been taught to believe we have a single identity and to feel fear or shame when we cant control the inner voices that dont match the ideal of who we think we should be. Yet Dr. Richard Schwartzs research now challenges this mono-mind theory. All of us are born with many sub-mindsor parts says Dr. Schwartz. These parts are not imaginary or symbolic. They are individuals who exist as an internal family within usand the key to health and happiness is to honor understand and love every part.Dr. Schwartzs Internal Family Systems (IFS) model has been transforming psychology for decades. With No Bad Parts youll learn why IFS has been so effective in areas such as trauma recovery addiction therapy and depression treatmentand how this new understanding of consciousness has the potential to radically change our lives. Here youll explore: The IFS revolutionhow honoring and communicating with our parts changes our approach to mental wellness Overturning the cultural scientific and spiritual assumptions that reinforce an outdated mono-mind model The ego the inner critic the saboteurmaking these often-maligned parts into powerful allies Burdenswhy our parts become distorted and stuck in childhood traumas and cultural beliefs How IFS demonstrates human goodness by revealing that there are no bad parts The Selfdiscover your wise compassionate essence of goodness that is the source of healing and harmony Exercises for mapping your parts accessing the Self working with a challenging protector identifying each parts triggers and moreIFS is a paradigm-changing model because it gives us a powerful approach for healing ourselves our culture and our planet. As Dr. Schwartz teaches Our parts can sometimes be disruptive or harmful but once theyre unburdened they return to their essential goodness. When we learn to love all our parts we can learn to love all peopleand that will contribute to healing the world.
language: English
title: No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
publisher: Sounds True