Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts that make you who you are. Is there just one “you”? We’ve been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can’t control the inner voices that don’t match the ideal of who we think we should be. Yet Dr. Richard Schwartz’s research now challenges this “mono-mind” theory. “All of us are born with many sub-minds—or parts,” says Dr. Schwartz. “These parts are not imaginary or symbolic. They are individuals who exist as an internal family within us—and the key to health and happiness is to honor, understand, and love every part.” Dr. Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems (IFS) model has been transforming psychology for decades. With No Bad Parts, you’ll learn why IFS has been so effective in areas such as trauma recovery, addiction therapy, and depression treatment—and how this new understanding of consciousness has the potential to radically change our lives. Here you’ll explore: • The IFS revolution—how honoring and communicating with our parts changes our approach to mental wellness • Overturning the cultural, scientific, and spiritual assumptions that reinforce an outdated mono-mind model • The ego, the inner critic, the saboteur—making these often-maligned parts into powerful allies • Burdens—why our parts become distorted and stuck in childhood traumas and cultural beliefs • How IFS demonstrates human goodness by revealing that there are no bad parts • The Self—discover your wise, compassionate essence of goodness that is the source of healing and harmony • Exercises for mapping your parts, accessing the Self, working with a challenging protector, identifying each part’s triggers, and more IFS is a paradigm-changing model because it gives us a powerful approach for healing ourselves, our culture, and our planet. As Dr. Schwartz teaches, “Our parts can sometimes be disruptive or harmful, but once they’re unburdened, they return to their essential goodness. When we learn to love all our parts, we can learn to love all people—and that will contribute to healing the world.”

Covered with the cloak of love, neither seen nor heard. The trauma that we do not call trauma often costs us the most and above all makes us lose the connection with our 'Self'. This book is for anyone who struggles and gets increasingly stuck within themselves, sometimes even without knowing why. The book describes all facets of surviving in short stories. The collected stories give hope, off er insight into (intergenerational) trauma and give an introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) in a personal and understandable way. "Very brave and clear how, based on your own experiences, you depict your healing process so beautifully and make a large amount of knowledge accessible to others. People will certainly recognize themselves in your book and will be able to use it to learn from and thus better understand and trust their own process! Practitioners and therapists with an interest in parts work will certainly be fascinated by your book and it will give them more insight in the complex system of parts. Sincerely: 'Chapeau!'" Annechien Scholte-van der Veen MSc now has a successful practice as a coach and trainer. Her mission is to put IFS on the map in the Netherlands. because there is still so much to gain in recognizing (the impact) of complex trauma and treating it with respect for all parts.

A short illustrated guide for survivors of childhood trauma and neglect. With simple language and lots of illustrations, this little book will orient you to your symptoms and your inner system of sub-personalities or parts. The format is like a kid's book, but it's for adults. Full color, 38 pages, 8.5" by 6.8", with pictures to clarify concepts and make the material more easily digestible. Colleen West, Marriage & Family Therapist, EMDR International Association Consultant, psychotherapist, consultant, trainer, and trauma-survivor herself, has stuffed a ton of psychoeducation and practical guidance into these pages. Includes: Window of tolerance, autonomic defenses, flashbacks, a simple and practical understanding of dissociation, parts mapping, and more. Designed for people with Complex PTSD, or histories of trauma and/or neglect, who are doing Internal Family Systems, Structural Dissociation, Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor, EMDR & Ego State Therapy. Includes psychoeducation for symptoms of PTSD, and soothing for overwhelming feelings for clients between sessions. Appropriate for adults and adolescents. If you like the trauma-informed work of Richard Schwartz, Bessel van der Kolk, and Janina Fisher, you (or your clients) will find the information here both useful and reassuring.

An illustrated IFS Psychoeducational Tool for Survivors of Childhood Trauma and Neglect. With simple language and illustrations, this little book will help teach your adult and adolescent clients how to understand their trauma symptoms and how Internal Family Systems (IFS) works to heal them. This powerful therapeutic tool translates complex ideas about trauma and parts work into material that is accessible and easy to understand. Practical guidance and illustrations for clarifying and discussing: - Dissociation - Parts mapping - Complex PTSD - Coping strategies - Window of tolerance - Somatic experiencing

Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.

This book adopts a novel, even revolutionary, approach to healing a wide range of psychological problems in therapy. The premise is that all of us have a number of multiple personalities within us who powerfully influence every aspect of our lives. By locating these internal parts and neutralizing the effects of the high-energy, often traumatic, experiences that created them, Parts Psychology demonstrates that patients can heal rapidly and completely from long-held emotional issues. The core of the book contains the healing narratives for 12 patients who, except for the problems that brought them to therapy, lead relatively normal lives. Several chapters describe the treatment process for such problems of emotional intimacy as lost love, low sexual desire, jealousy, and sexual swinging. Others describe issues of compulsion such as binge eating, porn addiction and bulimia. Several chapters detail success stories in the treatment of anger and rage, depression, grief and anxiety. Child abuse appears in the history of a number of patients. Each story begins with the first meeting with the therapist and concludes when the patient graduates from therapy. A first look at patients inner worlds might suggest to some the presence of multiple personality disorder (dissociative identity disorder). And many patients are shocked to find that they can have conversations with themselves. However, the case studies illustrate that having unconscious parts (subpersonalities), represented by a range of images, is normal. Although people may use fascinating images to represent their internal worlds, the more important content of a part of the self is its unique set of memories. Life experiences recorded in memory are the subject matter for therapy. Adult issues always have to do with the painful or novel life experiences that created the parts and the problems in a person s life, especially the adaptations and experiences of childhood.

We’ve been led to believe that when we get sick, it’s our genetics. Or it’s just bad luck—and doctors alone hold the keys to optimal health. For years, Lissa Rankin, M.D., believed the same. But when her own health started to suffer, and she turned to Western medical treatments, she found that they not only failed to help; they made her worse. So she decided to take matters into her own hands. Through her research, Dr. Rankin discovered that the health care she had been taught to practice was missing something crucial: a recognition of the body’s innate ability to self-repair and an appreciation for how we can control these self-healing mechanisms with the power of the mind. In an attempt to better understand this phenomenon, she explored peer-reviewed medical literature and found evidence that the medical establishment had been proving that the body can heal itself for over 50 years. Using extraordinary cases of spontaneous healing, Dr. Rankin shows how thoughts, feelings, and beliefs can alter the body’s physiology. She lays out the scientific data proving that loneliness, pessimism, depression, fear, and anxiety damage the body, while intimate relationships, gratitude, meditation, sex, and authentic self-expression flip on the body’s self-healing processes. In the final section of the book, you’ll be introduced to a radical new wellness model based on Dr. Rankin’s scientific findings. Her unique six-step program will help you uncover where things might be out of whack in your life—spiritually, creatively, environmentally, nutritionally, and in your professional and personal relationships—so that you can create a customized treatment plan aimed at bolstering these health-promoting pieces of your life. You’ll learn how to listen to your body’s "whispers" before they turn to life-threatening "screams" that can be prevented with proper self-care, and you’ll learn how to trust your inner guidance when making decisions about your health and your life. By the time you finish Mind Over Medicine, you’ll have made your own Diagnosis, written your own Prescription, and created a clear action plan designed to help you make your body ripe for miracles.