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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Alisa Pressman and today I have Dr. Dick Schwartz

who is the founder and brain of internal family systems, which has come to offer a paradigm

for understanding when human psyche, a mental construct for controlling behavior,

in a roadmap for getting in touch with powerful capacities within such as our compassion,

our confidence, our patience, and wisdom. Who doesn't need that when they're raising kids?

Within this IFS framework, Dr. Schwartz is talking to me about in my own parenting,

navigating those moments we used an example for me to work through anger. I can't even say

anger without feeling constricted. So Dr. Schwartz is going to explain internal family systems. He's

going to explain the concepts of parts within the psyche and explain what we can do in our

interactions day to day with our kids and ourselves to become more integrated and to have access

to itself. Now, there's some language in internal family systems that Dr. Schwartz uses that

might be easier to understand if I give you a little bit of background right now. So he talks

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