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 hard, too fast — that'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 to hold: at the center, intact, lies a fundamental Self — curious, open, capable of welcoming everything else.
You don't erase a wound — you learn to welcome it
Healing in IFS is not a disappearance. It's a relationship — with the dimensions that have been carrying alone what no one else wanted to hold.
Protectors: the parts that watch without rest
Behind every defense mechanism is a part that learned, often very young, that its vigilance was necessary for your survival.
We are not one — we are many
Inner multiplicity is not a symptom. It is the very nature of human experience. IFS makes it not a problem, but a starting point.
Dick Schwartz and the birth of IFS
How a family therapist from Chicago discovered, almost by accident, that his clients spoke of their emotions as if they were distinct people.