The Revision of the Belief About Feeling Guilty

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The IFS process revises a belief to make it so the exile just isn't in as much pain. It's like if you're dealing with a manager, you might revise the belief of like, oh, whenever this XL is in pain, I need to jump in and save it. The only way I knew how to hold that previously was just by feeling guilty about it. But now, I'm a more mature ego structure and I think I have better ways to handle that.

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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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