Resources for Parts Work/Reparenting your Inner Child

• IFS meditations (also check out others by the same facilitators on Insight Timer)

  • Connecting to your Core Self (Emma Donovan)

  • Calming Triggers with IFS (Jenna Riemersma)

  • "The path" from "No Bad Parts" for connecting with Self https://insighttimer.com/drrichardschwartz/guided-meditations/ifs-the-path

  • A guide to briefly connect with each part to let it know you're there with them (embodiment) which may be soothing https://insighttimer.com/drrichardschwartz/guided-meditations/ifs-embodiment

  • A guide for connecting with one part https://insighttimer.com/drrichardschwartz/guided-meditations/ifs-one-part

  • A guide to gently connecting with parts while not pushing past protectors (heart) https://insighttimer.com/drrichardschwartz/guided-meditations/ifs-heart

• Parts graphic

• Unburdened parts graphic

• “6 Fs” process for connecting with parts

• App: IFS Chatbot “Buddy”

• You can learn self-parenting skills by modeling after respectful parenting resources like these:

  • visiblechild.com/graphics-and-memes/

  • instagram.com/drbeckyatgoodinside/

• Books:

  • No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Dr. Richard Schwartz (audio format recommended to guide the exercises)

  • Self-Therapy: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Wholeness and Healing Your Inner Child Using IFS, A New, Cutting-Edge Psychotherapy (2nd ed) by Dr. Jay Earley

  • You Are the One You've Been Waiting For: Applying Internal Family Systems to Intimate Relationships by Dr. Richard Schwartz (great discussion of attachment wounds)