The Therapy Spot

This week on the Therapy Spot, I spoke with Mariel Pastor, a licensed marriage and family therapist based out of Portland, OR. She is also a lead trainer in the IFS model and has been training and practicing this method since the 1990s. We discussed the deep listening and gentle curiosity that are key to IFS, as well as Mariel's upcoming retreat which will focus on "the unburdened system."

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From the Disney movies of our youth to the romantic comedies of adulthood, we see the same kind of happy endings: we fall in love, and it all works out. But what nobody ever told us was that falling in love is just the beginning. We do a lot of "on the job" learning when it comes to the skills we need to be adults in intimate relationships.

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Released June 14, 2016

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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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Released May 24, 2016

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Episode 43

Embodied Cognition: In this episode I discuss the important insights we can from listening to the very physicality of our bodies. The body is not a tapped on afterthought to the mind. Our bodies of capable of great intuition and great insight. I discuss how we might learn to listen to our bodies.

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Episode 42

Realsed May 10, 2016

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The nature of being "taken over by a part" of yourself means just that. You lose your bigger perspective and you now have a single-minded dictator running your inner system and consequently your life.

Each part means well and thinks it knows what's best for helping you feel better either in this moment or in the long term.

So without your inner wisdom and Self intervention it will run full speed ahead.

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This week I interviewed Cece Sykes, an IFS trainer and therapist. We discussed what happens when we get "stuck" in behaviors that might feel good in the moment, but which we know don't help us get what we really want out of life.

Feeling conflicted is a normal part of life, and can often lead to the sensation of being "stuck." The polarization can be overwhelming and frustrating, as our "manager" parts struggle to maintain stability and a high level of function, while our "disruptor" parts initiate behaviors that are often misguided attempts to fulfill our unmet needs. Behaviors like this include:

• Overeating
• Drinking too much
• Overspending
• Having an affair

And so on.

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