151: What Healing REALLY Looks Like with Dr. Richard Schwartz

The Sabrina Zohar Show

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🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

What if the key to healing is understanding the different parts of yourself? Sabrina Zohar is joined by Dr. Richard Schwartz, the creator of Internal Family Systems (IFS), to explore how IFS therapy can lead to profound emotional healing.

In this video, Sabrina shares her own healing journey, confronting her inner critic, navigating trauma, and embracing personal growth. Together, they reveal how understanding and healing your inner parts can help you find true inner peace and self-compassion.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, hello.
0:02.0	Welcome to another episode of the Sabrina Zohart.
0:04.0	My name is Sabina Zohar, and I am your host. Happy Friday, Babes. I'm so excited. Today we have such a special guest. I'm like coming apart at the seams. We have Dick Schwartz here. We have the creator of IFS, Partswork. What you hear me and all of our guests talk about all the time. We have the person that created it,
0:21.1	and he is here today. And we have live coaching. He coaches me. We go through some inner work, some parts work, and I'm so excited. Guys, thank you so much for everything. As always, if you need anything, everything will be in the link of show notes. If you want to join a coursework one-on-one, whatever you guys need, we are here for you, and I'm just so grateful. Thank you guys, as
0:20.6	always. Don't forget. Rate review the show-one, whatever you guys need. We are here for you, and I'm just so grateful.
0:38.5	Thank you guys, as always.
0:34.7	Don't forget, rate review the show. Please, please leave a comment. Anything at all is so, so helpful. And just remember the language that we speak is the only thing I ask. So without further ado, let's get right on into it, shall we? Well, hello, Dick. Welcome to the Sabrina Zohar Show. I'm so excited to have you.
0:35.6	Thank you, Sabrina.
0:36.9	I've been excited for this.
0:38.4	So I'm really glad to be here.
0:55.1	Me too. And now, okay, so for a lot of the folks that come in,
1:01.1	they listen every week, they have heard me at nauseam's talk about whether it be IFS, internal family
1:06.2	systems or parts work, or having Britt on talking about the inner critic and all the parts, right? But I think before we even dive in, because there's so many things I want to talk to you about, I would love to learn more about you, more about how you came about with everything that you came about, and just a bit more about your background so we can get to know you a little bit better. Okay. Depends on where you want, how far back do you want me to go because I'm very old, but...
1:29.7	Let's go to where we are with professionally in the career and then we can go from there.
1:32.9	Okay.
1:33.7	So I trained as a family therapist, Maryland family therapist.
1:37.9	I have a Ph.D. in that.
1:39.5	And I was all gaga about systems thinking and how to understand a kid and a family who's having a symptom,
1:49.3	not as just an individual entity, but how dynamics of the family were pushing him into this protective role of either the family or himself.
2:00.5	And that that wasn't who he was and that the mistake is to diagnose him and say he's got
2:06.6	some illness.
2:07.3	But what we were finding was as we could shift these family dynamics, he would be freed up
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