Quick Check-in
Checking In with My Body Today I sat down for a quick internal check-in, and started with a body check: noticing what was happening in my body. I felt some …
My Parts Blog
Cross Purposed Trailheads
Trigger and Trailheads. In a recent self-led IFS session, I worked on an activation after a conversation and subsequent communication that left me feeling as though I had made a …
Hope, Don’t Hope
Beginnings. During a recent IFS session, I first focused on several protectors, and I noted how much diligence and work they have done over the years, and how easy it …
Unconscious Hypervigilance
Beginning My Session. I sat down to do some solo IFS work, initially tracking prominent physical sensations—a headache, tension around my neck and shoulders, and occasional weakness in my lower …
Transparency & Judgment
Opening My Inner World In today’s self-session, I began by tuning into my body and noticing a familiar sense of openness, feeling a thinner boundary between my outer and inner …
Surfacy Inner World
Inner Connecting In my session today, I felt a noticeable sense of excitement from a part that is celebrating the shrinking boundary between my inner world and my outer world. …
Shame-Based
A Morning of Mixed Signals. A recent inner session began with physical sensations—a lingering cough and a slight headache—accompanied by a part holding shame around still being sick. I also …
Chi Nei Tsang
Visiting Hurt. In yesterday’s self-IFS session, I self-conducted a Chi Nei Tsang abdominal massage—I learned this method years ago from a masseuse in Tucson. Working manually around my navel, I …
Jay Ex (Justice Executor)
A Vulnerable Exchange and Some Triggering In yesterday’s session, I recalled a recent conversation with a friend that triggered deep and scary reactions to my new levels of authenticity, which …
My 33-Year-Old
Reconnecting with My 33-Year-Old Self. In today’s IFS session, I spent some time revisiting a significant moment from my past: my 33-year-old self at the time I left my job …