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I've had two therapists (both formally trained in IFS) guide me through these exact processes. Honestly, it felt too bizarre and contrived for me. I was actually making things up just to please the therapist and get it over with.
Thank you both for this great content! Highly appreciate the work of Dr. Fisher, whom I have recently discovered. Seems like most people are walking pains with cooping mechanisms . The understanding of trauma is vital in order to be more compassionate towards ourselves and others and heal. I've just ordered a number of her books and IFS. Thank you again!
It would be so great to hear any updates from Liam of how this might've helped or changed him in any way. As with any modality, people spend the time and money to do the "work", but it's the results people seek. Is it possible to get any updates or feedback from Liam?
Amazing! Thank you Liam for being so brave and demonstrating to us your parts with courage. I found this so helpful to watch especially with my own healing journey. IFS is such an amazing and brilliant approach and the deep healing it allows. I just hope as a Counsellor, I can train in this fully soon! Thank you 😊
I have a question about NARM. I have cptsd, abuse amnesia/dissociation, anxiety, and depression. I've been in sessions for 2 months. My therapist starts out by asking what I want for myself, then has me talk about what I'm going through, with the pauses to sit with the feelings. Just when I am the most emotional and upset and at the topmost branch of the trauma tree, the session ends, he recaps what happened and it's over. I'm left with all the feelings and flooding and no way to get back down, no direction or guidance. Then I take a shower and nap, disdociate and forget details of the session, and am very sensitive and extra reliant on my service dog for a few days. Is that how NARM is supposed to go? I don't know what to do with all the emotions. I didn't know at the time, and still don't know.
Great work, I felt like I was watching an exorcism. The only space I thought he needed more was when he wanted to stay with his mother a little longer. His system was rushed at this point. Thank you, Dick.
I struggle with feeling seperate from the parts so I feel like as each part comes forward or is asked that part is myself. When asked how old it thinks I am I felt young too and when I said im not young and said my age I instantly began to cry and feel sad like wow a sense of grief and like I didnt know that so much time has gone by that you've been through all this for so long or this has gone on so long and I can't gtell if that was the part I asked reacting or a new part..
I experienced a vicarious therapy session when I listened to this... which is great, except now I feel like I need some follow up? Any suggestions? Thanks!
Yes. Very intense! Also shows true courage to share this in the public domain, especially when there were so many fears about judgements and retributions.
Thank you again for this beautiful sharing. I know it is two years old so from 2024 I send you love and gratitude for the great work you did. I am starting the course with Deb, Dana Online, this March, and I’m so thrilled about it, as I am a curious human being, who would love to speak polyvagal one day …. I find it so enlightening as it feels like it is a path/ approach/ journey that allows to step out of all the judgments and reaching into a space where we meet with ourselves, and we are with others, and from where we can access, resilience, healing, more love ❤
Minute 7 welcome the part that wants to kill him? 8:40 it says it’s dangerous 9:30 people will laugh, hate him, biological grandmother expressed vulnerability and ended up in an asylum. He might also be locked up. 11:30 RS welcomes him. 13:30 just wants to heal the part, but only with the threatened part’s permission. 15 part fears being killed 16:50 your only a f-ing baby 17:20 tell it how old you really are and that you were in danger as a baby but you are not now 18:30 permission to heal it? 19:20 another part that will kill us, babies chopped up, thrown into a fire 20:00 ask where images come from 20:30 from hell 20:40 did it get images from church? 21:20 uses images to control other parts 22:10 feels more open to healing threatened part 22:50 what area of body? Mouth, legs… 23:45 feels it taking him over a trance? 24:10 let it come. Tell me how you feel toward it. Welcome it. 24:35 tells me how afraid it feels. 25:15 why so afraid? Because it feels people hate ? Feels in danger all the time. 26:00 has reasons but it doesn’t have to live back there. We’re going to get it out of there. 27:00 it feels more safe I experience him differently now. 27:30 my heart feels more open towards him. 28 hard for him to trust? 28:20 keep letting him know how much you love him
Hello Dr. Schwartz. I recently read your book on IFS and found this new approch very pertinent. Thinking about the parts I had the intuition that they can also influence the organic systems such as respiratory, digestive etc. What do you think about?
