You & All Your Parts

When You Can’t Make All Your Parts Happy

We can't always do everything our Parts want us to do. This is particularly true when you have two Parts that want diametrically opposed things. Listen in as Laura walks through how she uses her Triple A's of Acknowledge, Accept, and Appreciate to help her listen to her Parts with compassion and then make a choice that is best for her overall system.

You Don’t Have to Act on Every Thought You Have

It wasn't that long ago that Laura learned this truth: you don't have to act on EVERY thought you have. Laura shares this truth but also talks about being hijacked by a Part, because that is a thing that happens. Listen in to learn more.

Inquiring Minds Want to Know: ”How many Parts do I have??”

A common question Laura gets is "How many Parts do I have?" Listen in for Laura's spin and how even though she has identified over 150 of her own Parts, she doesn't see them every day.

Love Languages of your Parts

Laura revisit's Gary Chapman's 1992 best-selling book, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate. She shares that it didn't really resonate with her back then. But now she understands its because her Parts have differing wants and desires and that includes different Love Languages.

Creating a Safe Haven for Your Parts - a Guided Meditation

Laura shares a guided meditation based on Joanne Twombley's work to help you create a safe haven for your Parts.

Potato, Potahto - Getting Schooled on the Word “Blending”

After people clapped back at Laura's use of the word 'blending' with a Part, she looked up the IFS definition in her Training Manual. She discusses how after several conversations with people on the topic, they can agree to disagree about what 'blending' means and if it's "good" or "bad."

Embrace the Blend

Listen in as Laura discusses the magic of blending with your Parts and embracing their energy. Some folks mistakenly think that the whole point of Internal Family Systems (IFS) is to detach from your Parts and live solely in Self-Energy. But that isn’t true. Our Parts, in their unburdened form, have gifts to share with us. Blend with those gifts and enjoy more of your life.

The 9th C of Self-Energy

Did you know that IFS has added a 9th C to the list of Self-Energy Qualities? Exciting, right? Tune in as Laura shares with you the two books that have now added that 9th C and when and how that 9th C evaded her recently in her own life.

Cultivating a Loving Voice for Your Parts

Laura shares how she's been working to create scripts to help people who struggle with speaking to their Parts from a place of love and compassion. She shares how she's faked it until she's made it and wants to help you too! If you have a situation with your Parts that flummoxes you on how to be loving, write her. She'll be glad to help you script out a loving response.

How Do You Feel About Emotions?

Are you overwhelmed by complex emotion charges that splinter out into ever larger circles or are pages and pages long? So was Laura. Tune is as she shares a simplified version of an emotion chart she found in "The Loving Parent Guidebook" by ACA. She hopes it resonates with you and your system like it did with her and her Parts.