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Non-Fiction / Self-Help: No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model IFS for short. Written for normal people
by BatteryMountain 4y ago
Non-Fiction / Self-Help:
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
IFS for short.
Written for normal people, not psychologists/psychiatrists. It has a very valuable core philosophy/teaching about who we are underneath all the masks of our personality(s). It closely resembles something I experienced during an Ayahuasca retreat in 2018, about the soul / inner child/god entity.
For something a little more tangible that digs in closer to the mechanism/science, see Dr Tori Olds on youtube, she has 5 videos on the topic that is incredibly powerful in understanding your own behaviours. Will take less than 2 hours of your life but can change it permanently for the better!
- sweetheart 4y agoWhile I haven’t read it, my therapist wife loved No Bad Parts. Giving this one a +1 on her behalf.
- quickthrower2 4y agoUsername checks out!
- RockyMcNuts 4y agoon a similar topic, people might like The Body Keeps The Score, by Bessel van der Kolk. although it's written at a high level for both practitioners and well-educated normies which might fit HN.
- voisin 4y ago+1 for The Body Keeps The Score. This book had a big impact on me and led me to focus on the physical components of past trauma. I started doing yoga daily and after a few months suddenly started having a huge release of emotions during the session. It only lasted for maybe 6-7 consecutive sessions, but left me with less daily anxiety and my panic attacks essentially disappeared. I highly recommend this book.
- andrei_says_ 4y agoDid you experience a permanent shift in body posture, alignment, or chronic tension?
- voisin 4y agoNo I wouldn’t say so. I got stronger but as I started running daily my flexibility has reduced again (lots of hamstring and hip flexor tightness!). I would say it was a permanent shift in that I haven’t had a panic attack since.
- andrei_says_ 4y agoMy experience also with Yoga - it’s a daily practice. An interesting thought passed onto my by my teacher - all body tensions are tensions of the mind. Hatha Ying’s reaches to the mind through the body. With practice you learn to release faster. With regular practice your baseline changes. The habit of letting go, continuously, in the body, brings up the possibility to release aspects that are seen as mind based. Also, the mind insists that body and mind are separate but in practice they are not.