Sunday, June 23, 2024

Healing Trauma in IFS Therapy: Unblending from Exiles

This is one part in a series that is powerful, illuminating, compassionate and wise, and deeply healing and transformative. Again and again I am growing so clear on the crucial missing pieces to many years on my own path of sobriety, inner child work, and seeking to break the generational cycles of addictions and pain and trauma for myself and my children. This is among many other links which nails what I needed and what my family needed and what was tragically lacking. I am also incredibly heartened and grateful today for how it is that addressing and treating addictions and depression and anxiety and all of the many faces of trauma is expanding and evolving. There is great hope for us all. — Molly 

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.

#toriolds #partswork #ifs #trauma

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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