#435 Every Part of You is Loveable: Exploring IFS with Dr. Dick Schwartz
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Ever feel like you’re at war with yourself? This might change everything…
In this heartfelt and transformative episode, I had the honor of sitting down with Dr. Richard Schwartz, founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS), to explore how understanding and working with your “parts” can unlock profound healing and self-growth. 🌟
We all have parts of us—the inner critic, the procrastinator, the overachiever. These parts aren’t flaws; they’re doing their best to protect us, even if their methods aren’t helpful. Dr. Schwartz explains how we can connect with these parts, heal the pain behind them, and step into the calm, confident Self that’s been there all along.
Plus, we’ll dive into practical tools from his new workbook, discuss how trauma impacts your inner world, and even demonstrate how to start connecting with your parts. This conversation is packed with insights you don’t want to miss.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction: Why You Feel Stuck
01:15 Meet Dr. Richard Schwartz: Founder of IFS
03:40 What Are “Parts” and Why Do They Matter?
08:20 The Healing Power of Your Self
12:45 Live Demo: Working with Your Parts
20:00 Balancing Inner Conflicts
30:50 When and How to Seek Professional Help
38:15 Insights from IFS
40:56 Final Thoughts and Next Steps
Ready to take the first step? Check out my free What’s Holding You Back? quiz to help you gain personal insights and self-awareness around your inner world. This will shed a light on hidden obstacles within yourself so you can move forward into your best year yet with clairity and confidence. I hope you check it out.
After you listen to this episode, join me LIVE this Thursday at 12 pm MT for an open Q&A on personal growth and Internal Family Systems. Submit your anonymous questions here, and I’ll answer them live on Thursday: https://www.growingself.com/dear-lisa.
Xoxo
P.S. Don’t forget to share this podcast with someone who could use a little encouragement today. Let’s grow together! 💕
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| 0:00.0 | Do you ever feel frustrated with yourself? |
| 0:06.0 | Like you're not quite able to be the person that you want to be. |
| 0:10.0 | Like maybe there's a part of you that is strong, capable, kind, organized, but it gets overshadowed |
| 0:17.0 | by these other parts of you. |
| 0:19.0 | In a sense, we're all multiple personalities that come with us into our lives and all have valuable |
| 0:25.6 | resources and qualities to help us. |
| 0:28.6 | Maybe parts that feel hurt, afraid, angry, numb. |
| 0:33.6 | The part that wants to indulge on the wrong food, and the part that wants to keep you healthy |
| 0:40.4 | and do the right thing all the time. |
| 0:42.3 | We just try to get them to listen to each other and work out a kind of time share. |
| 0:46.6 | This transformational system is called Internal Family Systems, or IFS. |
| 1:00.2 | And today we have the incredible honor of welcoming its founder, Dr. Richard Schwartz. |
| 1:11.0 | And so happy to talk to you today. |
| 1:12.2 | I'm a little starstruck. |
| 1:13.6 | I have to tell you. |
| 1:15.0 | You have a big deal. |
| 1:17.9 | I'm honored by the invitation, Lucy. |
| 1:21.3 | I looked into your podcast and I've enjoyed what I've seen. |
| 1:30.9 | I'm so excited to dive right into internal family systems because it is such a rich, deep, powerful modality that has helped so many people. And you also just recently published a new workbook, which my |
| 1:39.9 | understanding is for the first time ever helps people learn how to do this work on their own |
| 1:47.0 | and certainly doesn't replace therapy, but it's incredible what you've done with this book. |
| 1:52.6 | And so to just set this up for everybody, I would love to create just an overview of what |
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