Richard Schwartz — IFS, Psychedelic Experiences Without Drugs, and Finding Inner Peace for Our Many Parts | Brought to you by Helix Sleep premium mattresses, LinkedIn Jobs recruitment platform with 700M+ users, and Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement. More on all three below.Richard Schwartz is on the faculty of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.He began his career as a family therapist and an academic at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he discovered that family therapy alone did not achieve full symptom relief. In asking patients why, he learned that they were plagued by what they called “parts.” These patients became his teachers as they described how their parts formed networks of inner relationships that resembled the families he had been working with. He also found that as they focused on and, thereby, separated from their parts, they would shift into a state characterized by qualities like curiosity, calm, confidence, and compassion. He called that inner essence the Self and was amazed to find it even in severely diagnosed and traumatized patients. From these explorations, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model was born in the early 1980s.IFS is now evidence-based and has become a widely-used form of psychotherapy, particularly with trauma. It provides a non-pathologizing, optimistic, and empowering perspective and a practical and effective set of techniques for working with individuals, couples, families, and—more recently—corporations and classrooms.Please enjoy!This episode is brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs. Whether you are looking to hire now for a critical role or thinking about needs that you may have in the future, LinkedIn Jobs can help. 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This podcast explores methods for organizing your work and personal life to reduce stress and create a sense of control as well as tools for reconciling internal conflicts within oneself.
In this podcast episode, the host discusses a Medium article on a revolutionary method of psychotherapy and talks about his personal experience with trauma and depression with a friend who is also a survivor of sexual abuse.
The podcast explores the concept of "parts" - the idea that we all have different personas within us that are created by a variety of factors, not just trauma. It discusses the Internal Family Systems approach to working with these parts and how it can offer a new perspective on our inner dialogues and self-improvement.
The Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy technique involves identifying the “internal” conflict within a patient’s mind and working through it with the help of a therapist to promote compassion and healing. By working through conflicts between different parts of oneself, patients can learn to recognize how these experiences have influenced their behavior and cope more effectively with their thoughts.
In this podcast, the speaker shares an unusual practice to cope with fear and anxiety by giving it space and getting to know the fear as an adult version of oneself with a child's fearful nature.
The speaker briefly mentions sexual abuse but primarily focuses on the emotional turmoil of their childhood, urging the listener to be compassionate and understanding towards their past self.
Learn about a fire ritual that can help release past traumas and negative beliefs. By inviting someone to a safe place and setting up a fire, they can visualize the fire taking on their emotional baggage.
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Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy can be used as a map for guiding clients during psychedelic experiences, as well as in the aftermath to help them understand what they experienced and integrate the learnings into their lives. The self-energy of the guide is also important in creating a soothing environment and helping the sitters work with themselves.
The practice of speaking to different parts of oneself as a way of processing trauma is gaining popularity. It involves speaking to your parts and allowing them to communicate with each other in order to arrive at a place of healing and self-love.
The audio course "Greater Than the Sum of the Parts" by Sounds True is recommended as a good place to start for individuals who want to learn more about Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS) and how to apply it in their daily lives.
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