Parts
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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.
—Rumi
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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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I am large,
I contain multitudes.
—Walt Whitman
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Without contraries is no progression.
—William James
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
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Live in fragments no longer.
—E.M. Forster
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The unburdened internal system
The 8 C & 5 P qualities of Self energy
The concept of unblending in Internal Family Systems therapy
Inner critic check-in practice
The 6 Fs: parts check-in practice
5-step unblending & check-in practice with a worried part
Parts map: What part wants my attention?
Self to part: If I really knew you, what would I know?
On-the-spot Self-care-for-parts practice
Greater than the sum of our parts
You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For
Healing the fragmented selves of trauma survivors
The puzzling gap between how old you are and how old you think you are