Anger and boundaries in the IFS Informed Parent

As parents, not knowing our own healthy anger and boundaries, parenting becomes difficult. Especially women have not been allowed to have their anger, their boundary, their truth and through their core relationships to their caregivers and the society at large, many learn to people-please and fawn.

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Your Nervous System Leads the Way

Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn are deep survival responses from your nervous system that not only give you the best chances of survival in acute and prolonged stressful — or even life and death — situations, they also form your life and your way of being in the world more broadly and creatively than you may be aware of.

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Shame Protects: Shame and love in an age of shamelessness

Many therapy modalities and superficial views on human behavior are only seeing the crime of shame, the outcome of shame, the symptoms and the top layer pain, and therefore wish to banish shame altogether, thinking it is hurtful and unnecessary to modern day (wo)man.

But shame is not the problem. Shame protects in the absence of love.

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What I want Parents to know about Attachment

Attachment is about the relationship the child establishes to the caregiver or parent. This relationship will be on a continuum between very secure and very insecure. And the more secure — or safe — this relationship is, the safer the child feels on the inside as well.

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What I want parents to know about IFS

Here’s 5 things I want parents to know about Internal Family Systems (IFS) and 5 simples steps towards a more balanced relationship inside and out. In this article you also find the link to my podcast “Parenting from the Inside”.

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