Self-Therapy : A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Wholeness Using IFS, A Cutting-Edge Psychotherapy, 3rd Edition
Jay Earleyamazon.com
Self-Therapy : A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Wholeness Using IFS, A Cutting-Edge Psychotherapy, 3rd Edition
How well we get along with ourselves depends largely on our internal leadership skills—how well we listen to our different parts, make sure they feel taken care of, and keep them from sabotaging one another.
Being primitive and immature, your parts had to protect you in extreme ways because that was all they were capable of. You didn’t have the experience and the inner resources of an adult, so your parts had to do what they could—shut you down completely, throw a tantrum, become overly pleasing—whatever seemed to work. In this way the Self got eclipse
... See moreIn these pages, I hope to help you realize that your emotions and thoughts are much more than they seem—that those emotions and thoughts emanate from inner personalities I call parts of you. I’m suggesting that what seems like your explosive temper, for example, is more than a bundle of anger. If you were to focus on it and ask it questions, you mi
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