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The Importance of Internal Family Systems
We are both interested in something called IFS or internal family systems and it has a nice connection to what we've been talking about so what is IFS and how does it connect up with taking children seriously. In this the idea is that we all have parts or aspects of ourselves different aspects and sometimes those parts seem to be in conflict with each other like for example you might have the desire to lose weight and then you another part of you wants you to eat a lot. The thing that is really interesting about iFS is that their approach to all these different parts is that they assume that all the parts are well meaning that they're all trying their best even if what they're doing has effects