Meeting Your Internal Family with Susan McConnell

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

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🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We usually experience ourselves as being one "self," but we all have different characters, different "parts," running around inside our heads. And our relationship with some parts is better than others. Today's guest, Susan McConnell, joins Forrest to explore Somatic Internal Family Systems, a powerful form of therapy that helps us bring those parts together as a unified self. About Our Guest: Susan is a senior trainer for the IFS Institute, and has taught Internal Family Systems both in the United States and around the world since 1997. She developed the Somatic IFS approach, which is a synthesis of Susan’s forty years of study, teaching, and clinical practice. Her new book Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy, came out late last year. Life After COVID Summit: Join Dr. Rick Hanson, Forrest Hanson, and a roster of world-class experts during this FREE three-day online event to explore our life after COVID. Click here to learn more about the Summit and register now. Key Topics: 3:50: The Internal Family Systems model. 8:00: The Self, and relationships between our parts. 14:30: Common parts that people tend to have. 18:30: The “spiritual bypass.” 22:45: Using the body to become aware of our parts. 30:15: The benefits of somatic psychotherapy. 33:40: The five practices of somatic IFS. 39:15: Unifying the parts. 41:20: The Six F’s for finding protector parts. Forrest has a new YouTube channel! Subscribe to the channel, and watch his newest video over there. 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.
0:10.6	If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of lasting
0:14.7	well-being.
0:15.7	And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:18.3	If you've been listening for long, you're probably aware that there are many different
0:21.3	ways to do therapy.
0:23.1	Learning about these different methods is often, at least for me, both conceptually
0:26.4	interesting and practically useful.
0:29.0	They often have these actionable insights into our minds or our behavior, and can provide
0:34.2	a kind of roadmap for understanding ourselves and working with our material.
0:39.0	One of the forms of therapy that I've been the most interested in since learning about
0:42.5	it is Internal Family Systems Therapy, or IFS.
0:46.1	IFS is a model of therapy that recognizes that while we might experience ourselves as
0:51.5	being one unified self most of the time, we all have these different characters or different
0:56.2	parts that kind of run around inside our heads.
0:59.7	Maybe there's a part of you that keeps the trains running on time and helps you stick
1:02.9	to your commitments.
1:04.5	Maybe there's another part or an aspect of you that's extremely self-critical, a kind
1:09.0	of negative voice inside of the head.
1:11.3	Then maybe countering it, there's this more nurturing part, this aspect that helps you
1:15.0	fill yourself up when you're not feeling so great.
1:18.8	We're all constellations of parts, and this can sound a little cognitive, but there's
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