Internal Family Systems
There is a battle going on in your head.
Conflicting voices have left you confused and unsure how to move forward. It’s challenging to decide because what if it’s the wrong decision?
You find yourself overthinking everything and/or crumbling under the weight of self- criticism.
Striving for perfection makes it hard for you to complete tasks on time.
To distract yourself from the hard things in life, you find yourself turning to food, shopping, media, alcohol, or other substances. It’s become a problem, but you can’t stop.
Internal Individual “parts” are behind these thoughts and feelings.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a model to work with these parts. It shines the light of our awareness (Self-Energy or your loving, healing spiritual energy) upon them, affirming their good intention in trying to help your system.
Through the guided IFS process, these parts can unburden their learned beliefs and feelings, heal, and come out of the past (where they have been stuck) and bring them into the present. Once we befriend the protectors (Anxiety, Judgment, Perfectionism, and Addiction, to name a few), they become ready to take on new roles that feel better to them and the system. They can relax and trust the Self-Energy to handle things and become more willing to work as a team with other parts.
(IFS) Internal Family Systems helps us to identify, listen to, and heal these parts. In our internal system, there is multiplicity. The parts are our system’s brilliant and creative way of helping us survive the experience of being human on this planet. Each part has its own personality and energy. They hold memories, beliefs, and feelings.
When we witness their memories, beliefs, and feelings of the parts with curiosity and compassion, they no longer feel alone, have insight, and share the story of how they have been trapped in time. They then become ready to heal and come into the present time. As they heal, clients have a decrease in the symptoms of anxiety, depression, self-criticism, people pleasing, perfectionism, and addiction.
Call a truce to the battle in your head.
Reach out now. Your parts are waiting to be acknowledged and healed.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a creative and powerful tool to move the needle toward deep internal integration, which allows for the quieting of mental chatter and more peace and calm in your system.