Cath Leith is a Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Trainer, Therapist and Clinical Consultant with the IFS Institute. She has recently completed the Lead Trainer Program with the IFS Institute and helps with the teaching of Level 1 trainings for IFS Australia and New Zealand. 

In this episode of the Parts Party, Cath introduces us to an inner critic- a part I'm sure we can all relate to. Cath shares how this part got a powerful update and was able to transform their role to be much more of a support in her system.

More about Cath: https://www.selfspacecounselling.com/about-cath

Join Cath and Maddy's retreat for IFS therapists in Nov 2025: https://www.selfspacecounselling.com/about-3

IFS Australia: https://mindbeyond.com.au/

IFS Institute: https://ifs-institute.com/ 

Adriana: https://www.instagram.com/adriana_draws_therapy 

Ella: https://ellashannon.com/ 

Life will always have moments that are upsetting and distressing. In these moments, parts of us get activated, and try to do their best to help us cope. They buzz with anxiety, they try to fix, they focus on others or they find ways to numb us out. This meditation might be helpful in moments where you feel blended or taken over by a part. We hope you find it supportive. 

Martin Toré is the creator of IFS Buddy, an AI tool for Internal Family Systems self-therapy that gained traction overnight and now helps thousands of people worldwide, has been showcased at major healthcare conferences, and universities are reaching out to include it in their research.

Martin was previously a physiotherapist, and he talks about how working with people living with chronic pain led him to learn about trauma and the links between trauma and pain. He shares how he learnt to come from his heart when having  difficult and delicate conversations with his patients. Martin said he started working with IFS through video guidance and was able to make profound healing shifts through this self work, and shares his humble gratitude that the tool he created 'IFS Buddy' is granting free access for people worldwide to work with their parts outside of a formal IFS session.

https://www.ifsbuddy.chat

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Derek Scott's Youtube Channel that Martin mentions:

https://www.youtube.com/@IFSCA

IFS Australia: https://mindbeyond.com.au/

IFS Institute: https://ifs-institute.com/

Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/

Ella: https://ellashannon.com/

An Internal Family Systems Meditation to know and connect with parts, shared by Rebecca O'Calloghan.

Rebecca O'Callaghan is a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist based in Ireland. She shares her journey of understanding herself as a system of parts; from being a child who was conflicted with knowing she was both a 'good girl' and a 'bad girl', to studying Gestalt Therapy and being particularly drawn to the chair work and working with parts through this model. Rebecca discusses flow states and her deepening experiences of Self Energy, and how intellectual parts of her have loved the framework of IFS- putting words to what is known internally.

The IFS Trojan horse meme we mentioned: https://imgflip.com/i/9z7cpd

More Information:

Rebecca: https://rebeccaocallaghan.com

IFS Australia: https://mindbeyond.com.au

IFS Institute: https://ifs-institute.com

Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/

Ella: https://ellashannon.com 

This meditation is a lovely taster of the many beautiful meditations and experiential exercises in Laura's book 'Awakening to Love'

Laura Patryas, PhD, is a psycho-spiritual counsellor and IFS practitioner. She utilizes the latest scientific insights alongside embodied nonduality, offering a unique and universal path to healing. With over 20 years of research and personal exploration, Laura brings a deeply transformative perspective to her practice.

Dr Laura Patryas: https://www.drlaurapatryas.org/

IFS Australia: https://mindbeyond.com.au/

IFS Institute: https://ifs-institute.com

Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/

Ella: https://ellashannon.com/

Laura is a spiritual teacher and IFS therapist, as well as a researcher and author with a PhD in psychophysics. She first encountered IFS ten years ago—by accident—when she mistakenly signed up for what she thought was a Family Constellations workshop. Instead, it turned out to be an IFS Constellations workshop, which helped her to powerfully connect with her grieving and anxious parts.

In this episode of the Parts Party, Laura shares some gorgeous examples of Self-Led parenting, the gift of psychedelics as part of her journey of knowing Self and gifts us with an eloquent exploration of Self, parts & ego.

Awakening to Love, by Dr Laura Patryas

About Laura: https://www.drlaurapatryas.org/

IFS Australia: https://mindbeyond.com.au/ 

IFS Institute: https://ifs-institute.com/ 

Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/

Ella: https://ellashannon.com/

This is an IFS meditation to get to know bodily pain or symptoms that have no structural cause. It is based on somatic tracking, a tool in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) that helps us observe pain and symptoms from a place of safety. IFS helps us get to this calm, compassionate place by taking care of the parts that are naturally worried about the pain. We then listen to the sensation and see what it is trying to teach us.

To learn more about IFS and mind-body pain, here is an article by Manya. https://partsandself.org/what-can-physical-pain-teach-us/

More about Manya https://www.meetmanya.com/

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Manya Ronay is a Certified Level 3 IFS Practitioner and Certified Health Education Specialist. Originally from the USA and living in Israel, Manya shares openly about how her inner system has adapted to living in war time. We discuss parts that come up around eating and food, how time with family activates our parts and how chronic illness can show up with a message to slow down when manager parts really take over. Another beautiful conversation about learning to be Self-Led and the gift of IFS. 

To learn more about IFS and mind-body pain, here is an article by Manya: https://partsandself.org/what-can-physical-pain-teach-us/

Manya Ronay: www.meetmanya.com

IFS Australia: https://mindbeyond.com.au/

IFS Institute: https://ifs-institute.com/

Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/

Ella: https://ellashannon.com/

Amitayus Syzygy is an IFS Therapist from Phoenix, Arizona. He joins this episode of the parts party, sharing early experiences of loss, how thousands of hours of spiritual practices brought beautiful insights and experiences but ultimately did not change deep seated patterns in his relationships and how through Internal Family Systems he learnt to look after his own inner children, rather than hoping his partner could be responsible for their wellbeing. 

Amitayus brings a rich discussion about Self and Self-Energy to this episode that I am sure listeners will delight in.

About Amitayus: https://www.b-inghuman.com/about

IFS Australia: https://mindbeyond.com.au/

IFS Institute: https://ifs-institute.com/

Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/

Ella: https://ellashannon.com