Listen to Your Body-Somatic IFS
Episode 12: Biz Cush on Somatic Internal Family Systems
Are you missing important messages? In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, Elizabeth Cush talks about Internal Family Systems (IFS) and how to hear what your parts are trying to tell you.
“Somatic IFS can help our bodies communicate and heal those wounds without words.”
Show Notes:
Sometimes when things happen to us, parts of ourselves step in to protect us from the pain. Long after the events have past, those parts can feel hidden, cut off from our Self because of those old wounds. In an effort to keep us from hurt, they can drive unhealthy behaviors that negatively affect our relationships and keep us from the full experience of who we really are. So how can we heal wounds that want to stay hidden? In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Biz Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., and a mid-life women’s life coach, talks about the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model and her own experiences with parts work, and she shares insights she gained from a recent retreat focused on Somatic IFS. She explains what Somatic IFS is and how it can work in coaching or counseling to help heal your wounded parts and regain your Self.
Listen and learn:
What is Self or Self energy?
Why we still carry old wounds with us—and what they can drive us to do
How Somatic IFS can help us hear our wounded and hidden parts
Five practices of Somatic IFS and how each helps connect us with our Self energy.
Why connecting with any one part of our body is a helpful first step on our healing journey
The role of conscious breathing, mindful movement and attuned touch in healing old wounds
What radical resonance is and how it can work in counseling or therapy
Why the embodied self is the final piece that pulls the whole process together—and what our lives can look like when we’re fully embodied with our Self
How to get answers to your questions about Internal Family Systems, Somatic IFS and parts work.
Learn more:
Susan McConnell’s Embodied Self website
Guided meditations from Progression Counseling
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