IFS: Internal Family Systems (parts work) — Tyler Thompson, LMFT, LPCC

IFS: Internal Family Systems (parts work)

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Know thy Self.

—Socrates

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This being human is a guest house,
every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all.

—Jalal al-Din Rumi

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I am not i.
I am This One
Walking beside me
Whom i do not see,
Whom at times i manage to visit,
and Whom at other times i forget;
Who remains calm and silent
while i talk,
and forgives, gently, when i hate;
Who walks where i am not,
Who will remain standing
when i die.

—Juan Ramon Jimenez

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I am large, I contain multitudes.

—Walt Whitman

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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

—Anna Freud

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Drink from the well of your self
and begin again.

—Charles Bukowski

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A system that is integrated is in a flow of harmony. Just as in a choir, with each singer’s voice both differentiated from the other singers’ voices but also linked, harmony emerges with integration. What is important to note is that this linkage does not remove the differences, as in the notion of blending: instead it maintains these unique contributions as it links them together. Integration is more like a fruit salad than a smoothie.

—Dan Siegel

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We are sacred beings—as are our parts, as is the Earth. Too many people die without knowing that.

—Richard Schwartz

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

—Jane Austen

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Without contraries is no progression.

—William James

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The future you
is depending on the current you
to keep the promises
you made to yourself
yesterday.