Know, Embrace, and Love Yourself
All parts are welcome!
Do you feel unmoored, ungrounded, restless, like there’s no safe space to feel at ease with yourself? Are you constantly running, moving, avoiding, distracting, giving yourself more tasks, more responsibilities—anything to keep you from connecting with you. Are there parts of yourself that you suppress, that you’re scared to know, that you were told were bad, shameful, annoying, sensitive, impolite, parts that needed to be tamed or modified or forgotten about altogether?
There are no bad parts….
Humans contain multitudes, and at certain times in our lives, primarily during childhood, we’re told that some of these sides are less desirable than others. We’re shamed into altering our personalities to meet an impossible societal standard instead of embracing who we truly are in all of our wonderful complexity. If you’re ready to heal, to take a journey toward radical self-love and acceptance, to get to know and embrace all of the wonderful sides that make up who you are, Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) is the right therapy for you.
How Does IFS work?
Internal Family Systems Therapy is an evidence-based treatment that’s quickly becoming one of the most used treatments in the United States. It’s a therapeutic approach that allows one to know, embrace, and connect with all of the different sides of themselves. During an IFS session, you’ll work with a compassionate therapist who will help you uncover the facets of your personality that have always been in you, but that have either been pushed down or have been a part of a harmful self narrative. Once all of the different parts of yourself are brought to the surface, accepted, and cared for, true healing and growth will occur from the inside out.
In IFS therapy, you are healing yourself through radical self-acceptance, self-compassion, and self-love. This yields long-lasting results that are transformative and life-altering. In IFS, there are no bad sides of the self. Each facet of a personality is a worthwhile thread in the tapestry of a human being. IFS helps you explore those moving parts so that you can connect with the core of who you are—a core that’s creative, curious, grounded, and capable, a core that can thrive.
Benefits of IFS:
Empowers you through self-initiative and choice
Creates a foundation for overcoming future challenges
Sees depression as a symptom of trauma that can be overcome, rather than a chronic diagnosis
Allows you to know and love all of the sides of yourself
Reverses years of shame and negative messaging
Helps you move past barriers that are holding you back so that you can fulfill your goals
Rewires self-beliefs and eliminates destructive behaviors
Promotes self-reliance and self-trust
Leads to long-term healing and growth
The more self-led you become, the less afraid you are to act in a way that's going to actually bring more harmony.