Richard Schwartz | The Hidden Reason You Can’t Heal (IFS Explained)

Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

Josh Trent

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Is your drive to achieve, please, or protect coming from a wounded part of you, rather than your true Self?

Josh Trent welcomes Richard Schwartz, Creator of Internal Family Systems, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 767, to reveal why there are no “bad parts” within you, how trauma freezes pieces of your psyche in the past, and how to free yourself from legacy burdens passed down through generations.

In This Episode, Richard C. Schwartz Uncovers:

(01:10) What Is Parts Work?
(07:45) The Difference Between Your Part and Your Self
(13:40) Parts Work Isn't Inner Child Work
(17:20) Passive Vs. Active Parts Work
(22:10) There Are No Bad Parts
(29:35) You Can't Save Your Parents
(32:30) Healing a Legacy Burden (Practical Exercise)
(50:45) Are You a High Achiever? It Could Be Your Wound...
(59:55) The Rise of IFS Therapy
(01:04:50) Evil Entities Don't Lie
(01:08:10) Parts vs. Self
(01:13:15) The Future of IFS

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0:00.0	If we get triggered, these protectors are doing the talking, they're doing the battling.
0:04.0	They're little inner people, little inner personalities who are stuck in these protector roles.
0:09.2	They don't care about the impact to your body, to your relationships.
0:13.2	They just think they've got to get you away from those feelings right now, or you're going to die.
0:18.4	Dr. Richard Schwartz is a family therapist,
0:21.3	creator of the Internal Family Systems Branch of Therapy,
0:23.9	and author of No Bad Parts.
0:25.9	When you say there's no bad parts,
0:27.9	what do you mean by that exactly?
0:29.4	We all are born with these sub-personalities.
0:32.7	I came to call parts that are all valuable.
0:35.6	They all have different roles to help us in our lives. But for most of us,
0:40.0	they get frozen in time during the trauma. They're forced out of their naturally valuable states
0:44.6	into roles that can even destroy your life. The step that IFS takes is to go to these parts and
0:51.5	embrace them and listen to them and help them as you would as if they were your kids.
0:56.0	Because you see them as suffering beings rather than just random thoughts and emotions.
1:00.0	This is grounded in science, but it's deeply spiritual.
1:03.0	How is it much, much different than just inner child work?
1:13.5	What exactly are parts and what does parts work?
1:18.1	So parts are equated to sub-personalities.
1:19.9	It's another name for them.
1:29.9	And my belief now that's been panned out over 40 years of doing this is that we're all multiple personalities,
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