What Happens During a Brainspotting Intensive?
A plain-language walk through a Brainspotting intensive in Redding: what a session feels like, how the days build, and how you might feel during and after.
Internal Family Systems
Articles on Internal Family Systems (IFS), a gentle way of working with the different parts of yourself. From Yvette Brown, MFT Trainee in Redding.
Signs You Were a Parentified Daughter
Were you the little adult in your family? Here are 8 signs you were a parentified daughter, why it made sense back then, and what helps now.
Tired of Being Fine, Part 5: Caring for the Image of Christ in You
Why self-care isn’t selfish when you see it through the eyes of faith.
Part 4 · You Do Not Have to Gather Them Alone
Part 4 of 4: Unblending, witnessing, and how to begin this week The shift starts with one sentence: “A part of me is terrified.” Not: “I am terror.” Blending and unblending Sometimes one part takes over so completely that it’s all you can see. IFS calls this blending. You’re not just feeling anxious. You are …
Part 3 · Invite the Part to Befriend Christ
Part 3 of 4: The true Self, the fruit of the Spirit, burdens, and the Healer When your protecting parts step back, even a little, something quieter shows up. You don’t feel as overwhelmed. You can look at a part without attacking it. IFS calls this Self Energy. IFS teaches that the Self was never …
Part 2 · The Parts Trauma Made | IFS parts Christians
Part 2 of 4: Exiles, managers, and firefighters. None of them is the foundation. Once you begin to notice your parts, it helps to have names for the ones that keep showing up. IFS uses three main names. You don’t have to love the labels. But it does help to stop mistaking any of these …
Part 1 · You Were Not Created Broken | Christian Internal Family Systems
Part 1 of 4: The image of God, what IFS is, and what trauma does to God’s likeness in us You can love someone and want to leave the room in the same minute. You can want to pray and not be able to sit still long enough to do it. You can believe God …
IFS from a Christian Worldview: Parts, Image, and Who Is Actually God
In short: Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapy model that sees the mind as made up of different parts, like the part that plans ahead to avoid pain, the part that rushes in when pain shows up, and the part that still carries old hurt. Many Christians wonder whether it fits their faith. The …
IFS in Plain Language: Parts, Self, and Why Nothing Inside You Is the Enemy
Internal Family Systems starts with a simple claim that many people feel before they can name it. You are not one single voice. You are a system. There is the part that keeps the calendar tight and the house in order. The part that goes blank in conflict. The part that snaps when it has …
How I Met My Parts (and why this page exists)
I did not come to Internal Family Systems because it was trendy. I came because insight was not enough. I could name the patterns. I could explain the family system. I could even coach other people toward change. Inside, parts of me were still braced, still scanning, still trying to keep the old pain from …