IFS and Starting IFS with Beth Mullen-Houser
Episode description
On today's episode I chat with Beth Mullen-Houser. Beth is a clinical psychologist with a passion for working with providers new to IFS. Her IFS journey includes being an IFS-informed therapist for 4 years, an IFS researcher, speaker and consultant and currently PAing a L1 training. She has presented at the IFS 2023 Annual Conference and the Great Lakes IFS retreat and is a member of the Foundation for Self Leadership's Research Development team including recent collaboration on a research article submitted to a peer-reviewed journal.
We talk about:
- Starting IFS after years of mindfulness practice
- Internal chaos- Where is SELF?!
- "My Breath is always me."
- I am With in, not In it
- Research around mindfulness related adverse events
- Parts of therapists, parts of Supervisiors
- Importance of Noticing in the moment when Blended
- Our (Tammy's!) activated Mom parts
- Talking about parts as a way to unblend
- Witness, Community, and validation
- We are wounded in relationship, we heal in relationship
- Unblending ideas
- Stages of Competence
Find out more about Beth here: Self-Leadership Journeys, LLC (selfleadershipjourneys.com)
Enjoy!
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Tammy is grateful for Jack Reardon who created music for the podcast. Jack is a graduate of Derek Scott's IFS Stepping Stones Program. You can follow Jack at bonzemusic on Instagram.