What is IFS? No Bad Parts Book Summary - Trauma Therapy

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🗓️ 28 November 2025

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Book summary of No Bad Parts written by Richard Schwartz, it's an introduction to Internal Family Systems model aka IFS Therapy. Learn the skills to Regulate your Emotions, join the membership: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/membership Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Support my mission on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyinanutshell Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.therapyinanutshell.com Check out my favorite self-help books: https://kit.co/TherapyinaNutshell/best-self-help-books Therapy in a Nutshell and the information provided by Emma McAdam are solely intended for informational and entertainment purposes and are not a substitute for advice, diagnosis, or treatment regarding medical or mental health conditions. Although Emma McAdam is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the views expressed on this site or any related content should not be taken for medical or psychiatric advice. Always consult your physician before making any decisions related to your physical or mental health. In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger Institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction. And deeper than all of that, the Gospel of Jesus Christ orients my personal worldview and sense of security, peace, hope, and love https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/believe If you are in crisis, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org or 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or your local emergency services. Copyright Therapy in a Nutshell, LLC

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Therapy in a Nutshell podcast. I'm Emma McAdam and I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist.
0:07.0	And this podcast is all about taking the life-changing, but usually kind of complicated topics of therapy and boiling them down into simple, easy to understand concepts that you can use in your daily life.
0:19.0	If you find today's episode as helpful to you,
0:20.9	please pass it on to someone else who could benefit from it as well. Each podcast
0:24.5	episode comes from a corresponding video you can find on the Therapy in a Nutshell YouTube
0:28.6	channel. Also, these podcasts are educational and don't replace the advice or
0:32.7	direction you may be receiving from a therapist or other health professionals. Now please,
0:37.1	enjoy the episode.
0:38.3	I did not expect this book to affect me as much as it did. And now I can see why
0:43.3	internal family systems is such a powerful tool for treating trauma and other mental
0:48.3	health conditions and why they even made a couple of movies based on this approach.
0:52.3	So in this video, I'm going to summarize what I've learned about IFS with you and share some of the exercises that
0:58.8	helped me see myself more clearly and detach a little bit from my parts, some of them
1:04.4	very loud, and feel more compassionate and calm toward myself and others. So let's talk
1:10.2	about no bad parts by Richard Schwartz.
1:17.1	IFS or Internal Family Systems is a therapy approach developed by Richard Schwartz.
1:25.8	And from what I hear, he goes my dick. The main idea is that we're all made up of different parts.
1:31.3	We might have a perfectionistic part, an angry part, and a scared little kid part inside of us.
1:39.3	And there's these cultural approaches from Freudian psychology to religious philosophies to CBT that
1:45.2	have taught us that there are bad parts inside of us that need to be shamed and suppressed. And what I
1:52.3	think is beautiful about IFS is this concept that Schwartz put right here in the title of the book. There
1:57.9	are no bad parts. Dick was trained as a marriage
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