No Bad Parts | IFS Series - Part 3 | Q&A Livestream

*If you missed the Q&A livestream for this video, please post your questions in the comments*

It was so fun to get to chat with you guys about IFS and working with protector parts! Part 3 of my IFS series and this livestream are all about how, as Dick Schwartz says, there really are "No Bad Parts." The more that we can understand this as therapists and help our clients to gain more compassion for the parts that protected them from pain or trauma, the more we can gain freedom from unhelpful patterns of behavior and live more from our big S self.
In this Q&A session, I also dive into some of the connections between attachment theory and IFS, as well as Coherence Therapy and Internal Family Systems. We asked discussed how to talk about the concept of parts with clients.

00:00 Further thoughts: Parts work as a tool for untangling the "barbed wire" of our defenses.
09:06 Question 1: How do Attachment Theory and Internal Family Systems fit together?
12:40 Question 2: How do we help our clients to feel safe enough to face the things that traumatized them in the first place?
16:52 Question 3: How does IFS connect with Coherence Therapy and the technique of juxtapositions?
18:00 Question 4: In IFS how does a therapist cultivate greater capacity, address transference and implicit biases?
20:30 Question 5: Do you have any suggestions for some spaces where people can feel resourced enough to heal from trauma?
22:30 Question 6: What is the best way to coax out an exile who does not want to engage with the self?
25:51 Question 7: How do you talk about the idea of having parts with clients?
29:20 Question 8: How do I get more out of therapy and access the parts of me that feel blocked?
32:22 Explaining symptom deprivation in Bruce Ecker's Coherence Therapy
34:24 Question 9: Do you have any advice for people who over-analyze to help them get the more out of therapy?