Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. Today, we are back with one of our favorite detectives

of life. Brilliant minds who help us figure out who we are, Dr. Becky, if you did not

listen to the last episode, please go back and listen to our episode about attachment

because it's going to help you understand this one. Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical

psychologist, best-selling author, Mom of Three, has been named the Millennial Parenting

Whisperer by Time Magazine. Dr. Becky is the author of the number one New York Times best-seller

Good Inside to be coming the parent you want to be. And founder of the Good Inside Membership

Platform, a hub with Dr. Becky's complete parenting content collection all in one place.

Her podcast Good Inside with Dr. Becky was one of Apple Podcast's best shows of 2021.

Dr. Becky, thank you so much for being back with us today. So happy to be here.

So I reached out to you a while back and asked you if you would come on the pod to talk to

us about something called Internal Family Systems. This is a theory. It's an approach

to therapy. I'm going to give you my idea of it because I have been interested in Internal

Family Systems since you told me on episode 130 and 131 that it is often used with eating

disorders. And Dr. Becky, as an aside, I have talked to the pod squad already this year about

how I am back in intense therapy because of my recent diagnosis with anorexia. So I am

in this shit right now. I am in the shit. As opposed to all the other times when we haven't

been in the dark. When we've been easy breezy and it's fine and the bad things figured out,

you might be surprised to know. So the idea of Internal Family Systems, the way my therapist

started talking to me and eased me into this is I would say I don't have a problem I'm fine

in a million different ways. And she would say, okay, friend, why don't you talk to me about the

voice inside your head that speaks to you whenever you want to eat or experience food or at

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