The Power of Parts Work in Therapy

Sometimes there can be, I'm going to use a kind of loaded term here, but an almost performative wantang of something. There are a lot of social forces or cultural forces or internal forces that tell us that we're supposed to want certain kinds of things. Then there's this other thing, which is what you're describing, which is like maybe a part of us is talking, but the whole isn't talking. Parts work is something that's done in therapy. Sometimes it's an interesting form of therapy. And sometimes it's really useful in healing to have a part of you speak that you know is not all of you. But it's like this little voice inside of your

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