Publications — Max Littman Psychotherapy Practice

- JUNE 15, 2026
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Embodied Self of the Therapist
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- JUNE 7, 2026
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The Embarrassment of Liking Recognition
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- MAY 22, 2026
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Inception and the Psyche’s Security System
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- MAY 17, 2026
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Beyond Connection: When Attachment Is Not the Only Focus and Healing Force in Therapy
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- MAY 6, 2026
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Right-Sized Responses: A Practical Frame for IFS Therapy
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- MAY 2, 2026
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The Vulnerability of Being Earnest: Gullibility, Shame, and the Default to Trust
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- MAY 1, 2026
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Protection Through Imperfection
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- APRIL 29, 2026
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IFS Obsession and Fatigue
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- APRIL 28, 2026
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Delight: A Dimension and Marker of Self Energy
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- APRIL 22, 2026
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The Definition of Insanity
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- APRIL 19, 2026
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At Capacity: Saying No to Good Offerings
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- APRIL 17, 2026
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Limitless: Non Ordinary States, Self, and Brain Power
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- APRIL 14, 2026
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The Allure of a Golden Past
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- APRIL 12, 2026
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When There is No Resonance
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- MARCH 14, 2026
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Fond Over Bond: Longing for Bonds in a Season of Fondness
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- MARCH 10, 2026
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The Friction of Growth: A Polarization Between Challenge and Autonomy
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- MARCH 5, 2026
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The Trickiness of Consent in IFS Therapy
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- MARCH 2, 2026
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Bids for Connection in the Comment Section
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- FEBRUARY 27, 2026
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The Therapist’s Dissociation: An Invisible Consultant in the Therapy Room
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- FEBRUARY 19, 2026
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Race, Gender, Rupture, and Repair: The Exile of White Cis Men in Healing Spaces
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- FEBRUARY 17, 2026
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Why Self Is Easier to Access in Session Than Outside It
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- FEBRUARY 11, 2026
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The Mystic and the Magician
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- FEBRUARY 6, 2026
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Giving Our Parts the Benefit of the Doubt
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- FEBRUARY 5, 2026
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Shame about Not Doing IFS Insight: When Insight Becomes a Substitute for Contact
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- FEBRUARY 4, 2026
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The Vertical and Horizontal Planes: Points of Reference for Connectedness
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- JANUARY 28, 2026
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Why Be Self Led?
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- JANUARY 25, 2026
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Disembodied Authenticity and Connection
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- JANUARY 23, 2026
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Outsourcing Guidance
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- JANUARY 16, 2026
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Concerns About IFS Being a Morally Relative Model
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- JANUARY 9, 2026
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Non-Duality, Detachment, Attunement, and Love
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- DECEMBER 31, 2025
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Living in a House Full of Words
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- NOVEMBER 26, 2025
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Identity as a Verb
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- NOVEMBER 24, 2025
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The Inner Recalibration of Becoming a Parent
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- OCTOBER 22, 2025
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Potty Parts
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- OCTOBER 21, 2025
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A Critical Mass of Self Energy
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- OCTOBER 20, 2025
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Disentangling Our Wounding from Others: Using IFIO Principles in Individual Therapy
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- OCTOBER 19, 2025
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A Container for Spirits
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- OCTOBER 18, 2025
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The Parts Triangle: Complimenting IFS with the Enneagram, Personality, Needs, and Neurobiology
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- OCTOBER 15, 2025
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Gifts Beneath Burdens: The True Identity of Our Exiles
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- SEPTEMBER 30, 2025
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The Difference Between Clarity and the Search for Coherence
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- SEPTEMBER 25, 2025
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Finding and Focusing: The Neural Roots of IFS
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- SEPTEMBER 21, 2025
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Transference in IFS: The Missing Half of the Relational Conversation
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- SEPTEMBER 19, 2025
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Therapy as a Pinball Machine
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- SEPTEMBER 10, 2025
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The Complexity of “You Can Only Take Clients as Far as You’ve Gone”
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- SEPTEMBER 9, 2025
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Reimagining the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Survey: Adding Oppression-Based, Intergenerational, and Prenatal Trauma
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- AUGUST 23, 2025
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Transception: Expanding the Science of Human Perception Beyond Interoception and Neuroception
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- AUGUST 12, 2025
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The Burden of Being “A Loser”
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- AUGUST 11, 2025
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From Alienation of Labor to Alienation of Being: Technology’s Slow Unweaving of Embodied Community and How Grief Can Bring Us Back
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- AUGUST 8, 2025
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Curiosity Interrupted: Trauma, Protection, and the System’s Return to Discovery
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- JULY 25, 2025
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When Credentials Become a Proxy for Competence: The Hidden Risks in Only Seeking Certified or Level 2+ IFS Practitioners
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- JULY 24, 2025
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Finding My Corner: Writing Toward Unpopular Truths with Warmth and Attunement
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- JULY 24, 2025
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The Spell of Groupthink: Naming and Navigating Collective Echo Chambers in the IFS Community
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- JULY 22, 2025
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The Deeper We Go, the More Mysterious It Can Get: When Traditional IFS Stops Working
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- JULY 21, 2025
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The Spectrum of Embodied Self Energy: Respecting Disembodiment
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- JULY 18, 2025
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What No Training Can Teach Us
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- JULY 17, 2025
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The Meaninglessness Burden
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- JULY 15, 2025
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The Possibilities of Self and Wholeness: Imagining Systems Beyond Burdens
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- JULY 8, 2025
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When Access Lags Behind an Inclusive Model: Reimagining IFS for More of Us
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- JULY 7, 2025
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When Seeing Becomes Too Much: The Risk of Naming Parts That Aren’t Ready to Be Seen
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- JULY 6, 2025
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The Full Arc of Healing: What Demos Leave Out
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- JULY 4, 2025
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Rooted in Truth
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- JUNE 30, 2025
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The U-Turn: A Radical Move Toward Inner and Outer Leadership
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- JUNE 11, 2025
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Community Gathers, Culture Grounds: Why Both Matter
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- MAY 25, 2025
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Stupendous Screw Ups: Self-Led Responses to Missteps in Clinical Practice
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- MAY 25, 2025
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Killing Your Ego: Unwise and Impossible
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- MAY 13, 2025
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The Embodiment of Authenticity
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- MAY 8, 2025
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The Sense of Direction Within: Navigating Your Inner Map
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- MAY 3, 2025
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Interrupting the Great Man Theory in Mental Health
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- APRIL 28, 2025
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Custody of the Mind: The Bitter Divorce Between the Masculine and Feminine, Control and Surrender
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- APRIL 23, 2025
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Highly Sensitive Parts: Exploring Highly Sensitive Persons (HSP) Through an IFS Lens
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- APRIL 20, 2025
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Our Body is Hardware, Our Parts Are Software: A Somatic IFS Take on Our Inner Operating System
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- APRIL 14, 2025
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Like Smoke in a Pensieve: What Morning Meditation with Parts Feels Like
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- APRIL 10, 2025
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If the U.S. Were an Internal System: Understanding Trump, Our Collective Parts, and the Fractured Psyche of a Nation
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- APRIL 9, 2025
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When Healing Is Marketed and Wholeness Is Bought
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- APRIL 1, 2025
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Attuned Consultation: Cultivating Self Leadership in IFS Supervision
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- APRIL 1, 2025
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The Tension Between Process and Interruption
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- MARCH 22, 2025
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The Intersection of AI and IFS: A Human-Intelligence Partnership or a Risky Overdependence?
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- MARCH 19, 2025
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The Integrity Debate within the IFS Community
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- MARCH 11, 2025
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A Shared Legacy: The Collective Burden of Survival Across Time
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- MARCH 6, 2025
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The Porous Mind, Ancestral Protection, and Schizophrenia Through an IFS Lens
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- MARCH 4, 2025
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Living Beings Within: A Mind-Body-Spiritual Approach to Parts Work
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- MARCH 1, 2025
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The Cultural Burden of Extraction and Its Influence on Discernment in IFS Therapy
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- FEBRUARY 28, 2025
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When I’m Not Self-Led in Meditation (And How I Relate to That)
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- FEBRUARY 21, 2025
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Understanding DSM Diagnoses Through an IFS Lens
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- FEBRUARY 9, 2025
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From Trauma to Trust: How Training Our Rescue Dog Lucy Taught Me About Healing
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- FEBRUARY 8, 2025
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How Do We Not Lose OurSelves in the Chaos?
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- FEBRUARY 6, 2025
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Perfect Bodies, Hidden Burdens: How Gay Instagram Influencer Culture Can Contribute to the Burdens of Gay and Queer Men
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- JANUARY 30, 2025
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Navigating Challenges in IFS Trainings: Compassion for Self, Trainers, Support Staff, Peers, and the Process
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- JANUARY 23, 2025
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Healing in the Shadow of Mount Doom: An IFS Perspective on The Lord of the Rings
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- JANUARY 19, 2025
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The Weaponization of Self in the IFS Community: Reconnecting to the Heart of IFS
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- JANUARY 10, 2025
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Mastering the Art of Contracting in IFS Therapy and Consultation: A Guide for Therapists and Consultants
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- DECEMBER 29, 2024
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Turning Shame into Joy and Connection: Neuroscience and IFS
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- OCTOBER 26, 2024
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From Sapiens to Self: Unburdening Legacy and Cultural Burdens through IFS and Harari’s Insights
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- SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
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Dancing in the Relational Field: When and How to Balance Between Direct Access and Insight
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- SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
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Mate Assessor Parts
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- SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
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Gifts and Losses
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- JUNE 30, 2024
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Attunement: A Way of Understanding and Accessing Self Energy
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- JUNE 20, 2024
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Unlocking the Potential of Your Private Practice Through IFS
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- JUNE 13, 2024
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A Conversation with My Writer/Editor Part
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- JUNE 4, 2024
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Trump: America’s Unattached Burden
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- MAY 26, 2024
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The Hope of Inner Physics
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- OCTOBER 29, 2023
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A Method For Identifying, Extracting, and Releasing Burdens
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- SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
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Music as a Trailhead: How Parts are Affected by and Use Music
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- SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
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Working with Parts Affected by Organic Bipolar and Psychotic Disorders
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