Healing Trauma in IFS Therapy: Unblending from Exiles

Parts work, trauma and IFS therapy, for an in depth discussion of these topics check out the Q&A livestream for this video here:    • IFS Series - Part 4/5 | Healing Traum...  

Welcome to Part 4 of my series: What is IFS? Internal Family Systems Therapy, Explained. In this video I share how IFS Therapy understands trauma through the frame of parts work and uses the techniques of unblending from parts to help heal trauma and gain freedom from "emotional flashbacks." I also discuss the IFS concept of exile parts and describe the relationship between protectors and exiles. I also provide a brief description of the neuroscience of trauma, trauma flashbacks and why traumatic experiences can still feel so present in our bodies, years after the traumatic event. Finally, I explain how once we have been able to connect with our "big S self," our "true self" is able to go beyond managing our emotional reactions to actually healing our trauma by caring for our traumatized exile parts.

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00:00 Understanding Trauma Responses From a “Parts” Perspective
02:01 What are Exiles?
03:00 The Relationship Between Protectors and Exiles
03:31 The Neuroscience of Traumatic Memories
05:54 What are Trauma Flashbacks?
10:14 A Parts Work Approach to Trauma
15:07 IFS Techniques for Unblending From Parts and Healing Trauma
18:24 Discriminating Between Protector Parts and the True Self

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