Good Life Project How IFS is Healing Trauma & Changing Lives (Maybe Yours?) | Tamala Floyd, LCSW
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Aug 18, 2025 In this thought-provoking discussion, Tamala Floyd, a psychotherapist and lead trainer in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, delves into healing trauma through understanding our inner parts. She shares insights from her new book, emphasizing how these components of ourselves can transform feelings of exhaustion into wholeness. Tamala highlights the importance of recognizing protective roles like the people-pleaser, and she connects these concepts to broader themes of self-acceptance and emotional well-being. A must-listen for those exploring their inner selves!
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Self Is Distinct From Parts
- IFS distinguishes many parts from a core Self that remains unhurt and whole.
- When parts unblend, the Self can lead with clarity, calm, curiosity, and courage.
Externalize Parts To Meet Them
- Externalize parts by drawing or using objects to represent them so Self can separate and relate to each part.
- Use that representation to ask parts who they are and what job they took on.
Parts Are Innate Then Adapt
- Parts are present from birth with natural roles that adapt through experience.
- Parts take on extreme protective roles when environments signal their original expression is unsafe.
