Internal Family Systems - Meet your inner family
What would you say to a conversation with your Inner Critic, The Perfectionist or Inner Child? IFS...
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Types of parts in IFS
We distinguishes 3 types of parts in IFS. Internal Family Systems model calls these types of...
Self-Therapy: working with Exiles
This is the most transformational stage of the IFS therapy work and should only be worked in...
How to work with protectors in IFS therapy?
Therapists who are new to practising Internal Family Systems therapy often make the mistake of not...
Seven types of the Inner Critic
Meet the seven types of Inner Critics, which constitute the most destructive habit of our mind.
Sample IFS session
The following sample IFS session is a transcription of an extract from the session presented in the...
Social programming
How we live and what we think is largely determined by what was drilled into our heads when we were...
Self-Therapy. Working with Internal Family Systems Parts: Protectors
This is a guest post from Kasia Galagus who described working with Protectors. Enjoy! The human...
Procrastination. How to overcome the urge to leave things for later?
Procrastination is a habit of putting things off. Let’s not kid ourselves, we all do this. Such...
Your mind during the psychedelic experience
Psychedelic drugs give us opportunity to experience the world - both external and internal - in a...
Empty chair technique
Imagine yourself sitting next to an empty chair. Now, imagine there is a person sitting there -...
Your ego, your friend
“The ego is bad and you should drop it”. “Our ego brings all the bad things on us and, in...
History of Internal Family Systems therapy
Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., is the face behind IFS, i.e. Internal Family Systems Therapy, which is a...
TRE - trauma release exercises
TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises) is a simple yet innovative series of physical exercise...
How does the television affect your brain?
TV, an apparent source of relaxation, causes a lot more damage to your brain than you think. After...
What are subpersonalities and how they work in IFS therapy?
In our society, the belief that our mind is a single and complete whole is still very common. This...
How to change your way of thinking?
It is obvious that in order to change our lives, we must start by changing our way of thinking....
Shame: how it works, how to release it
Carl Jung once said that shame is an emotion that eats out our soul. Undoubtedly, this is one of...
The Basic Assumptions of NLP
NLP is not only about techniques, but above all, it’s about the way of thinking and looking at...
Is it love or is it addiction
A great deal of relationships are codependent couples who, literally, can't live without each...
10 things you should stop doing to yourself
Route to happiness and emotional freedom does not always require getting new things or skills. Stop...