How to Untangle Internal Conflict

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People usually have some sort of trailhead that's like something they can tell they're really sort of stuck on or where they have internal conflict about it. And then there's kind of an iterative process where the idea is that you want to do kind of like a depth first, go into one part and really kind of untangle things from there. The way that you can get this sort of actually full emotional picture of what's going on is if you can get all the other parts to step aside.

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What is the Internal Family Systems model? What kinds of information do our emotions give us? How many agents live in our heads? And, if there's more than one, how well do those agents cooperate? What is operant conditioning? What is attachment theory? How does parenting differ from animal training? Is decision theory able to unify many different psychological theories?

Divia Eden has always been interested in understanding how minds work, and she currently spends most of her time unschooling her three kids. You can find out more about her at becomingeden.com or follow her on Twitter at @diviacaroline.

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