Hi everybody. Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things.

In thinking about this episode, I want to say this.

This episode is for anyone who thinks of themselves as a relatively intelligent person, but has things that they do in their life that they don't understand why they do them. I eat every single one of us

listening? Well I don't know. Maybe some people understand themselves completely but

what I will say is I am a person who understood most of myself but had a self-sabbataging, many self-sabbataging actions.

So I'm talking about eating disorder stuff right now.

But I know a lot of people who have parts of themselves

that sabotage themselves, like shut down in relationships, like lash out.

I mean there's a million things that people do and at the end of the day they say,

why do I do that and how do I stop?

And the person who's here today has helped me more than anyone else start to

understand why I do the things I do that are harmful

Actually, that's it. That's as far as I've gotten

Okay, but that in itself has been a revolution. So, Richard C. Schwartz PhD is the

creator of Internal Family Systems systems a freaking celebrity for our pod squatters

a highly effective evidence-based therapeutic model that de-pathologizes the

multi-part personality.

His IFS Institute offers training for professionals and the general public.

He is currently on the faculty of Harvard Medical School,

and has published five books, including No Bad Parts,

Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness

with the Internal Family Systems model. Thank you for your work and thank you for being with us today.

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