And they talked about these parts as if they had a lot of autonomy-as if they could take over and make them do things they didn’t want to do.” - page 13 When I asked them why, they started talking about these different parts of them. “I did an outcome study with bulimic clients and discovered with alarm that they kept binging and purging, not realizing they’d been cured. If this all sounds bonkers right now, encourage that sceptical, objecting part of yourself (yes, part 😉) to try and have an open mind and keep reading. There are different names for different parts and the roles they have taken on from managers, to firefighters, to inner critics to exiles. “At its core, IFS is a loving way of relating internally to your parts.” - page 4 As a simple example, can you think of a time where you were torn about doing something, where one part of you was urging you to go for it, while another was imploring you not to? That we all have different “parts” inside of us that act in different ways, have different motives and want different needs met. I’m going to invite you to try on this different paradigm of multiplicity that IFS espouses and consider the possibility that you and everybody else is a multiple personality. I want to help you take a look-a second look-at who you really are. That’s the paradigm I believed in, too, until I kept encountering clients who taught me otherwise.
“The idea that you have one mind, out of which different thoughts and emotions and impulses and urges emanate. In general, our culture has this commonly accepted concept of the “mono-mind”: Richard Schwartz, the author of No Bad Parts is also the original founder of this model so we are getting to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth. The entire book is based on the concept of Internal Family Systems, IFS for short.
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