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No Bad Parts: Individual and Collective Healing with Dick Schwartz

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The Inherent Goodness of Humanity

Inherent to human beings there are no negative. There are little bundles of negative energy that will run into too but they don't seem to have any particular desire other than to cause damage. I think that the fact that IFS recognizes that there are no bad parts it actually lets us effectively a therapist work with parts that we couldn't work with otherwise you were mentioning like racist parts for example or homophobic parts or parts that have abused other people. If all we know how to do is judge them and exile them and shame them and punish them then there's really no hope for positive change at all.

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