Internal Family Systems Therapy with Dr. Richard Schwartz

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We all have different parts inside of us. This is perfectly normal, not psychotic. But our relationship with some parts is often better than others, and a wonderful path to healing and growth is to repair our relationship with all of our parts. That's the premise of Internal Family Systems Therapy, and today Forrest is exploring this powerful modality with the founder of IFS: Dr. Richard Schwartz. It's a special episode that includes a live demonstration of an IFS session between Forrest and Dr. Schwartz. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Key Topics: 2:00: Internal Family Systems' origin story. 4:30: An introduction to IFS. 12:40: Allowing the Self to help itself. 14:20: Richard and Forrest do a mock IFS session. 17:40: The "Manager" gets in the way. 18:20: "Direct access" to the "Protector" part. 24:00: Integrating the "session." 27:15: Speaking from our parts. 29:15: "No bad parts." 33:00: Working with our exiled parts. 35:10: Anger toward our parts, and self-compassion. 37:30: IFS' de-pathologizing stance, and place in the medical model. 39:40: Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. 42:15: Trauma work, and being with the younger self. 47:45: Recap Sponsors: From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Start a new healthy habit with Seed! Visit seed.com/beingwell and use code BEINGWELL to get 20% off your first month of Seed’s Daily Synbiotic. Connect with the show: Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.
0:10.8	If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of last and
0:15.1	well-being.
0:16.1	And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:18.9	I've really been looking forward to this conversation, which is going to be focused on
0:22.3	one of my current favorite topics.
0:24.3	We usually experience ourselves as being one's self, but we all have different characters,
0:29.4	different kinds of parts running around inside our heads.
0:32.6	Maybe there's a voice in you that helps keep you on track, and keeps you organized, and
0:37.1	maybe even helps you succeed at work.
0:39.5	Maybe there's another part that shows up when you get angry or frightened.
0:42.7	And maybe there's a part that likes knowing a lot, a part that is social and playful,
0:47.3	and another part a bit off to the side that represents a younger version of you.
0:52.0	It can get pretty busy in there, and our relationship with some of those parts tends
0:55.7	to be better than others.
0:57.4	To help us sort through all that and achieve some semblance of unity, I'm joined by
1:01.5	a true pioneer in the field of psychology and the creator of the Internal Family Systems
1:06.1	Model of Therapy, Dr. Richard Schwartz.
1:08.7	Dr. Schwartz began his career as a family systems therapist and created IFS in response to
1:13.7	clients' descriptions of various parts within themselves.
1:18.0	He focused on the relationship among these parts, and noticed that there were some systemic
1:21.6	patterns, to the way that they were organized across clients.
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