Understanding the Inner Self

Make peace with the difficult parts of your personality.

Dr. Richard Schwartz is a contemporary psychotherapist, PhD in marriage and family therapy. He founded the Internal Family Systems Model (IFS) therapy system and has authored many books, most recently: The Internal Family Systems Workbook. 

In this episode we talk about:

• What Internal Family Systems (IFS) is
• The relationship between buddhism and IFS
• How to make peace with our parts without a therapist in the room 
• Dan volunteers as a guinea pig to show what it’s like to work with your parts
• The definition of love
• The link between IFS and psychedelics

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Additional Resources: 

• The Internal Family Systems Workbook is part of the new Sounds True Inner Workbooks series, which currently includes The Nervous System Workbook by Deb Dana and The Healing Anxiety Workbook by Sheryl Lisa Finn, with more titles planned.