Released: June 7, 2016
An Interview with Nancy Sowell
This week’s podcast is an interview with Nancy Sowell, an Internal Family Therapist (IFS) lead trainer and clinician who worked with Dr. Nancy Shadick, a rheumatologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, to create an IFS intervention program for rheumatoid arthritis patients to be studied in a randomized controlled trial. This research study provides the basis for which IFS has been listed in the National Registry of Empirically Based Programs and Practices (US).
Nancy and I first discuss how IFS significantly helped people with Chronic Pain and then go on to consider what this might mean for others.
In the clinical work Nancy undertook, patients were encouraged to follow IFS’s methodology, working with what she calls “stoic parts”; the parts that have learned to push on through pain, to cope, to isolate the Self from the world around, ignoring their body’s warning signs...
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