TWN Podcast
Exploring IFS: Parts & Presence
Chalene and Mechelle are currently in IFS coaching training and we invited our practice group partner Julie Davis to join us for a conversation about parts work and the wisdom of Richard Schwartz’s No Bad Parts. We share real experiences, challenges, and “aha” moments from both studying and practicing IFS together.
Mechelle Wingle and Chalene are training as IFS (Internal Family Systems) coaches. Here they invite their practice group partner, coach and musician Julie Davis, to talk about parts work and Richard Schwartz's No Bad Parts. In this video: • How each of them first met the idea of "parts," and why it can feel like such a relief. • What a part is, and how to notice one in everyday moments, like the voice that says "let's just sleep in." • The Self and its qualities, like calm, curiosity, and confidence, and the idea that you're already whole. • How protectors and exiles form from small, everyday hurts, not just big traumas. • Meeting firefighter parts with curiosity instead of shame, and Gabor Maté's question: not why the addiction, but why the pain. • Books that helped them get here, including Running on Empty and The Tao of Fully Feeling. Good for anyone curious about IFS or learning to be kinder to every part of themselves.
