In this meditation, I guide therapists through an Internal Family Systems meditation focused on connecting with inner parts related to client work. The meditation encourages tuning into the body, reflecting on the therapist’s journey, and engaging with any fears or protective parts that might arise when working with clients.

Meditation For Therapists:

1. Hands to heart and belly.
2. Notice any sensations in your body.
3. Generate heart energy.
4. Send it to parts of you that need it.
5. Reflect on your client list: those that are doing well and those that are suffering the most.
6. Do you and your parts all agree to work with this client?
7. What fears do you and your parts hold around being unable to help everyone?
8. Notice what parts of you come up.
9. Be with their fears, send them love.
10. What do they need from you before, during, or after the next session with this client?
11. What do they need from you as a follow-up after today?
12. Wrap up mindfully.

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In this episode of Going Inside, I sit down with Natalie Deering, an IFS therapist and wellness expert, to explore the polyvagal theory and its connection to anxiety. Natalie breaks down how understanding our nervous system responses can help us navigate anxiety, and we discuss practical tools for fostering safety and calm in our bodies.

Key Takeaways:

1. Understanding the Polyvagal Theory: The polyvagal theory explains how our nervous system responds to stress, anxiety, and safety cues, helping us recognize why we may feel anxious in certain situations.
2. Fight, Flight, Freeze Responses: Anxiety can trigger various survival responses like fight, flight, or freeze. Learning to identify these reactions helps us become more aware of our body's needs and responses to stress.
3. Regulating Through Breath and Connection: Techniques like deep breathing, grounding, and engaging in safe relationships can help regulate our nervous system, shifting us from anxiety to a state of calm.

Learn more about Natalie Deering at https://www.ndwellnessservices.com/

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In this episode of Going Inside, I sit down with Elia Mrak, a trauma informed educator and Qigong practitioner, to explore the deep connection between movement,healing, and aliveness. We dive into how dance and Qigong can be powerful tools for transforming trauma, re-energizing the body, and finding vitality.

Key Takeaways:

1. Movement, even for 30 seconds, is a powerful way to reconnect with your aliveness and build vitality.
2. Trauma isn’t something to get rid of but a stored resource that can be transformed into energy and life force through movement.
3. Qigong and dance can offer fun and deeply pleasurable ways to access our emotional energy and heal.

Learn more about Elia Mrak at www.eliamrak.com

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In this impromptu consultation with Monica Cavalcante, I answer her questions about incorporating Internal Family Systems (IFS) into therapeutic practice. We explore essential topics, including how to introduce IFS to clients, the nuances of self and self-energy, and navigating clients' intuitive responses during sessions.

If you’re a therapist curious about integrating IFS into your work, this episode is filled with insights and practical tips to enhance your practice. For those who are not therapists but are interested in understanding more about IFS and its transformative potential for self-exploration and healing, this episode offers valuable insights that can enhance your healing journey.

Key Takeaways:

1. Personalized Understanding of Self-Energy: Encourage clients to define their concept of self and self-energy in ways that resonate with their beliefs and experiences, fostering a deeper connection to their healing journey.
2. Honoring Intuition in Therapy: Be mindful of the client's intuition throughout the therapeutic process, ensuring that they feel safe and empowered to voice any discomfort with the IFS approach.
3. Therapist's Role: Acknowledge the inherent power dynamics in therapy, and strive to foster an environment where clients feel free to express their needs and boundaries.

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In this episode of Going Inside: Healing Trauma From The Inside Out, I sit down with Dr. Nathalie Edmond to explore the intersection of race and trauma. We discuss how understanding racial dynamics can help us navigate difficult conversations and promote healing. Dr. Edmond also shares insights from her new book Mindful Race Talk on approaching race-related topics with curiosity and compassion.

Key Takeaways:

1. Curiosity Over Defensiveness
   Approaching conversations about race with curiosity helps reduce defensiveness and fosters meaningful dialogue.
2. Building Capacity for Discomfort
   Learning to sit with discomfort is essential for addressing difficult topics like race and trauma.
3. The Role of Repair in Relationships
   Repairing ruptures in relationships, especially around race, is crucial for healthy, ongoing connection.

Learn more about Dr. Nathalie Edmond at https://www.drnatedmond.com/

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In this episode of Going Inside, I sit down with Sara Avant Stover, a women’s leadership coach and author who blends Internal Family Systems (IFS) with entrepreneurship. We dive deep into how IFS can help entrepreneurs find balance between work and life, explore the motivations behind our drive to be productive, and discuss how tapping into our inner resources can enhance our work and overall well-being.

Key Takeaways:

1. IFS as a Tool for Slowing Down:
   IFS helps us tap into our inner resources, slowing down workaholic tendencies and fostering curiosity about the parts of us driving over productivity.
2. Balancing Business with Self-Care:
   Sara shares her experience of taking a month-long sabbatical each year to recharge, explaining how stepping away from work brings fresh clarity and helps create a more sustainable, simplified approach to business.
3. Listening to Our Higher Self:
   IFS encourages us to hold "inner family meetings," where we bring our parts to the table and tap into our innate confidence and clarity as leaders, finding new ways to approach entrepreneurship.

Learn more about Sara Avant Stover at https://saraavantstover.com/
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In this episode of Going Inside: Healing Trauma From the Inside Out, I’m joined by Dr. Laura Patryas, an expert in the intersection of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and non-duality. Together, we explore how these two approaches can deepen our understanding of healing from the inside out.

Below are the 8 F’s of Dr. Laura's Nondual IFS:

1. Feel—Tune into the bodily felt sense of your inner parts, energies, thoughts and emotions with tenderness. Naming them can help. Stay here as long as feels natural.

2. Feel-through—Inquire "Am I this part, thought, emotion, sensation?" Sense the presence that remains when each part is felt-through deeply. This helps uncover your true Self.

3. Field—Open to all parts from the spacious field of Self's awareness that underlies all experiences, thoughts, and sensations.

4. Friend—With unconditional friendship, attune to and embrace even extreme parts, listening to their stories and core beliefs.

5. Flow—Sense the Self harmonizing and flowing with different energies, allowing the paradox of individuality and oneness.

6. Fluid—Notice the fluid boundaries and lack of separation between Self and parts, inner and outer.

7. Freedom—As integration unfolds, feel the freedom of open, peaceful flow within the universal field.

8. Fulfilment/Fullness—Experience the richness of this present moment without craving any other state

• Learn more about Dr. Laura Patryas at https://www.drlaurapatryas.org/
• Tune into Dr. Laura's IFS Nondual Meditation

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In this episode of Going Inside: Healing Trauma from the Inside Out, I’m joined once again by Bob Falconer to dive into the intersection of trauma, Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, and spirit-based work. Bob shares his personal journey into embracing spirituality within therapy, despite initial resistance within the IFS community. We dive into profound topics about connection to Spirit Guides, working with Unattached Burdens, and much more.

Key Takeaways:

1. Spirituality in Therapy - Bob shares how his work increasingly focuses on spirit-based therapy, emphasizing the importance of a spiritual connection that remains present even during intense suffering.

2. Thoughts on Other Therapeutic Models - We reflect on the damage caused by certain therapeutic models, especially those emphasizing therapist authority and disempowering clients. It’s important to question the roots of these models, including IFS, and maintain humility in their application.

3. Humility as Therapists - It’s important to have humility in therapy, recognizing that while we have tools and knowledge as therapists, there is still much we don’t know. We must honor clients’ systems and maintain an open, questioning attitude toward therapeutic models.

Learn more about Bob Falconer at https://robertfalconer.us/

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