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🔸 Camouflaged, a ripple in negative space. 🔹 Parts: P: smooth it out, neutral, wants to stop me knowing too much. It likes “weird laugh” as camouflage. Other parts don’t know about it, doesn’t want to be seen by other parts. Angry after noticing loneliness P: be efficient, make progress E: little angry me, fighting siblings, awful to little sister 🎓 What I'd

🔸 People quietly walking away. 🎓 What I'd like to do differently: One of those days, racing home, have just a minute to catch my breath before getting on a call. But having the convo was just what my parts & I needed. -----🗳 Send anonymous feedback to James: Feedback Form😀Come chat with us: Discord🙏PLEASE help Internal Family Systems reach more people. Subs

🔸 A keyhole. Easy is scary. 🎓 What I'd like to do differently: A lot of this felt familiar, I believe we had already done some witnessing here, so I wanted to see if we could take some shortcuts -----🗳 Send anonymous feedback to James: Feedback Form😀Come chat with us: Discord🙏PLEASE help Internal Family Systems reach more people. Subscribe, give a rating, or comm

🔸 Sit down, shut up, hold on!2️⃣Pod boppins. We’re allowed to have concerns? 🎓 What I'd like to do differently: Must remember to stretch before calls w Clare! We haven't done IFS in ~6 months, so when "This way, not that way" parts show up, I don’t feel like I have much room to challenge them. But I do wonder “how much of this part's role is di

🔸 Step 1: Who’s here? 🔹 Parts: P: Sleepy v judgemental P: Frustrated, an intensity “the universe is coming down on me” P: Holding it together. "I don’t want to be emoting during those challenging time" 🎓 What I'd like to do differently: I could be wrong! I had parts on edge, this being a first time caller, parts saying “jump in now! No now!” Oth

🔸 Teenage angst, impossible heaviness. She didn't think I'd get this far. 2️⃣ Rageful truth of the body. These social games feel like shit. 🎓 What I'd like to do differently: 1️⃣ Low energy today, but it felt right to hit the gas. We don’t meet often, it’s been maybe 2.5 months, and nothing else booked, so that’s another reason I go faster, especial

🔸 Gambling; the game of life. 🎓 What I'd like to do differently: It's been about a year since we talked, and the only intention we set was to chat, not do IFS. So I took this call while walking, and didn't prep much. Presenting with what he called his most significant trauma, at beginning of call I was wanting to offer detours, not make the mistake of going too f

🔸 We don’t live there anymore 2️⃣ Left out of the family picture 🔹 Parts: P: get it perfect or you’ll disappear. tired, wishes someone else was In charge. Works so hard for chance to rest. P: it’s too dangerous to look inside: “Are you crazy? He’ll kill us all”, story has been told, not felt. wants death certificates E: waiting to be seen, in so much pain P:

🔸 Collapse. There’s a lot riding on this. 🔹 Parts: Rage: you never want to work w me Urgency has to be there because motivation and drive are not. Collapse is overwhelm + distraction (the 2) Grief from how time was spent in 20s. Lost, unhappy, alone. Wanted somebody to get her. 21 year old by the river. Wants me to write. The one who wants to hide from responsibility, care

🔸 My dad was a good gardener… 🔹 Parts: P: Shit, might have to go somewhere I've been avoiding P: Until you do this, you’re just pissing around the edges P: “He wasn’t doing anything to me”. I was the problem. P: Self-like part thinks I'm under 10. Needs the proof E: Shock and hugeness. Frustration. Not being understood, heard, seen. 🎓 What I'd lik