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The Gathering Room Podcast

Listen Again: Martha with Dr. Dick Schwartz

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5656 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

For this special “Listen Again” episode of The Gathering Room, Martha is sharing her conversation with Dr. Richard Schwartz, the brilliant creator of Internal Family Systems (IFS), a wonderful therapeutic model that Martha loves using! IFS provides an optimistic, empowering framework to help us focus on the different “parts” of our personalities so that we can shift into a state characterized by curiosity, calm, confidence, and compassion. Tune in for their conversation about Richard’s latest book, YOU ARE THE ONE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR: APPLYING INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS TO INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS, which is available at all major retailers.  If you’re interested in learning more about IFS, you won’t want to miss this one!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck.

0:09.1

Hi, everyone. I am here today with one of my heroes. There are not many scientists, therapists, psychologists, who not only create powerful strides forward in theory and in

0:25.1

practice, but also somehow become rock stars of their profession, especially when they don't have

0:33.1

any egoic investment in being that. Dick Schwartz started out in the 80s, and I'll let him talk more

0:42.3

about it, but he began to create and teach a form of therapy called Internal Family Systems

0:50.0

therapy that has revolutionized the way therapy is done. I heard about it maybe 10 years ago.

0:56.9

By five years ago, I said, I got to get me some of that. Sign myself up with an IFS therapist.

1:01.8

Still doing it. She's amazing. And I started reading more and more. And here's the thing, Dick,

1:07.9

people don't just talk about how brilliantly IFS works,

1:14.0

and they don't just talk about how amazing you are.

1:18.6

They love you.

1:21.6

Like, I've never seen anything like it.

1:24.1

In the forwards to these very academic books or papers online people say i've got to

1:31.0

acknowledge dick schwartz and it feels like they step out of their academic or scientific persona

1:38.3

and just say oh my god this man i love this man so i mean i feel the same way and uh i'm i'm here to

1:52.4

to praise loudly your latest book you are the one you've been waiting for which is about

1:56.9

relationships and i do want to talk about it. But I also, before we started recording,

2:03.4

was just talking to Dick about how he kind of slogged along out there in the world

2:08.3

with these incredible ideas for decades before suddenly it just went absolutely supersonic.

2:19.4

So for those of us who are out in the world plugging away and, you know,

2:25.1

grinding toward what we hope, what we feel is most true, but it hasn't worked yet or

2:30.1

hasn't kicked in yet, I'd love to hear a little bit of your story

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