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Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts

Discovering Your True Self Through Internal Family Systems Therapy

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Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts

By: Richard C. Schwartz
Narrated by: Richard C. Schwartz PhD
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Explore your multifaceted mind - an invitation to personal healing and spiritual awakening

Inside each of us, there are many distinct selves. “Though we’ve been raised to believe that healthy people have a single ‘self’”, explains Dr. Richard C. Schwartz, “acknowledging our multiplicity gives a far deeper awareness of how our minds actually work.” Dr. Schwartz’s pioneering Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy has become renowned in psychotherapy for its power to help us connect with and heal the many distinct facets - or parts - of our psyche. With Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts, he brings you a practical training course for using this method for your growth, well-being, and especially your spiritual journey.

Embracing your inner diversity as a path to wholeness

One of the key lessons of IFS therapy is that there are no bad parts. “Trauma or life experience can cause our parts to take on burdens”, says Dr. Schwartz. “Yet when we bring the spiritual values of curiosity, gratitude, and kindness to these burdened parts, we discover incredible opportunities for healing and awakening.” Through instruction and guided meditations, Dr. Schwartz shows us how to engage even the most disturbing or unwanted parts of our psyche with openness and love - so we may unlock the hidden gifts and wisdom each part contains.

Many forms of therapy and even spiritual practice inadvertently put us in conflict with ourselves as we try to transcend or reject our parts. With Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts, Dr. Schwartz invites you to embrace each of your many parts with self-compassion - and discover the inclusive greater Self that is your true, divine nature.

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Let the healing begin!

this is the most helpful self improvement course or book I have ever invested my time in :)

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Great book, great practice

Dr. Schwartz is deeply connected and understands the inner workings of the human mind and heart. Love the meditations too.

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powerful!

The is an amazing book from the beginning. It provides a comprehensive ways to understand the parts of you!

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Amazing!!!!

Feeling like I’m getting to know my mind in a way that I have never before. I wish I had found this system decades earlier!

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Healing my parts

I have inner peace, and harmony is beginning to be expressed between my true self and my parts. It is because of my participation with this process (IFS) combined with ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families) and the ACA Loving Parent Guidebook ACA meetings.

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Truly fascinating and life changing.

I am a psychotherapist and have had the privilege of sitting with Dick to hear the discoveries he has made about the inner world of our internal family system and see him display his approach with others with profound and truly remarkable results. It not only has changed my own understanding of myself and brought clarity and healing to my own exiles but has also done the same for hundreds of my clients over the years as a professional. The thing that about this audible recording is that it has helpful information about how to conceptualize the model, a history of how Dick came to discover his understanding of the model, a conversational approach from Dick which makes it easy to listen to and remain engaged, and some interventions that Dick facilitates that truly mirror an experience you might have in a therapy room with him. I would highly recommend this and have to many of my clients.

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best new therapy out there

As a therapist I'm always looking for new ways to help my clients. This is one of the best therapeutic frameworks for clients to heal childhood trauma that I've found. Can't wait to get trained in IFS myself!

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The tool to bring love & light to your inner & outer world.

The impact of this system is profound. Richard’s experience, kindness and wisdom resonates throughout and is as reassuring as his friendly and open narration.
With concrete, step by step guided techniques IFS offers a ‘handle’ on the important secrets hidden within our inner dialogue. It’s simplicity and directness empowers us to open the door to a more enlightened and compassionate way.
A rallying cry for us to cultivate our highest Self so that we, our communities and our world can be healed into wholeness.

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wow

loved it. I loved the format of mindfulness as the gateway. amazing learning and practice.

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Changed my viewpoint

Very groundbreaking for me on guilt and shame understanding that there are no bad parts.

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