David Dastmalchian
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jun
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It's called... Do you know what this is?
Yes, it's called IFS, Internal Family Systems.
That's it, yeah.
It's a model of therapy that I think is so brilliant because...
you've got these exiled parts of yourself.
Most of us had, whether they were like what people in mainstream would consider, like that's true trauma.
To children, trauma is trauma is trauma.
So like just going to get your parents' hand and then turning away at a point when they didn't even realize they were doing that all the way to that moment when you really needed somebody there and maybe they weren't there for you or you got so scared by an event.
All these things,
exiled little parts of our emotional states inside.
And as we grew, we developed these parts, which we call managers within the family system inside of ourselves.
And so we've developed all these different parts of ourselves.
And the process of doing that, that therapy is you developing and working on tools to relax enough to be conscious enough that when those
managers those different parts of yourself the firefighters flare up and they start to try to control because it thinks it's going to keep you safe you become conscious inside and then you try to become the parent to those parts within you and help them relax and it's it's a practice that i use now for managing my own anxiety when i'm in a circumstance where i feel myself wanting to bolt because my anxiety is getting so intense
I've practiced going inside and being like talking to myself the way that like an incredible parent would talk to a child in distress.
I highly I highly if anybody is is listening, I highly recommend Dr. Richard Schwartz wrote a book called No Bad Parts.
And I think it's a really interesting model.
There's so many great therapeutic models.
I'm never going to tell say this is the one that you should do.
I think there's
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