IFS Reflections
Articles
Writings on IFS, the Self, and inner parts — for those who want to understand deeply.
What your intense reactions are trying to tell you
When an emotion surges too strongly, too quickly — it's not a flaw. It's a part of you doing its job, with the tools it has.
The dimension of you that was never wounded
IFS rests on an idea few models dare propose: at the center, intact, lies a fundamental Self — curious, open, capable of holding everything else.
You don't erase a wound — you learn to hold it
Healing in IFS isn't a disappearance. It's a relationship — with the parts that carried alone what no one else wanted to hold.
Protectors: the parts that watch without rest
Behind every defense mechanism lies a part that learned, often very young, that its vigilance was necessary for your survival.
We are not one — we are many
Inner multiplicity isn't a symptom. It's the very nature of human experience. IFS treats it not as a problem, but as a starting point.
Dick Schwartz and the birth of IFS
How a Chicago family therapist discovered, almost by accident, that his clients described their emotions as if they were distinct people.