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🗓️ 8 August 2025
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We’re bringing you some of our favorite gems from the archives, as chosen by our staff. This week, we’re hearing from therapist Dick Schwartz, as chosen by Mani Chandy from our Substack team. Schwartz is the founder of Internal Family Systems, a way of looking at all of the various “parts” that we have inside ourselves, and how they can work together or make things harder for us.
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How to Handle Your Demons | Richard Schwartz
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0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
0:07.9 | Hey, hey, happy Friday, everybody. |
0:21.0 | Today we're going to talk about one of my favorite and really most impactful for me personally, |
0:26.9 | theories of the case when it comes to the human mind. |
0:29.5 | I don't know if you ever saw that movie Inside Out or the sequel Inside Out, too. |
0:32.8 | The idea is that it takes you inside the mind of an American girl and shows how she's got these different |
0:38.6 | parts to her. |
0:40.1 | She's got her angry part, jealous part, calm part, happy part, joyous part. |
0:44.1 | This is true of all of us. |
0:46.0 | And learning to understand that we've got these different modes into which we go and then |
0:51.6 | developing a sane relationship with the various parts of your personality. |
0:57.3 | You might call them demons, although not all of them are negative or problematic. |
1:01.5 | But this view of the psyche and how to work with it has been incredibly helpful to me. |
1:08.5 | And, you know, it's not entirely new all the way back to the Buddha. |
1:13.3 | The Buddha was working even after his enlightenment with one of his most problematic parts. He called |
1:20.4 | this part Mara. It's kind of the god of desire and aversion and delusion, a kind of avatar of |
1:26.7 | the most problematic aspects of the human |
1:29.3 | repertoire. There's a lot to this. And like I said, I have found it incredibly helpful and I'm not |
1:33.9 | alone. All this month on Fridays, we're highlighting some of our favorite moments from past |
1:38.3 | episodes, kind of golden nuggets from our vast archive as selected by members of the team here at 10% Happier. |
1:45.5 | Today's episode is built around a selection from Moni Chandy, who works on our substack operation. |
1:51.9 | When we asked Moni, can you think of one of the most impactful things you've heard on the show? |
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