For someone hearing about this for the first time, can you explain the idea of having different parts within us?

us?Yeah, and before I do that, I just wanna say how, I wanna normalize your experience.

Like, I, I think that what has happened unfortunately in our culture is that our culture really promotes this construct of mono-minded thinking, which means if we inside of ourselves believe one thing and also believe the polar opposite of that thing, so I wanna go to the party, I don't wanna go to the party, [laughs] um, on the one hand, on the other hand.

We see that across all cultures and all languages, and actually, the interesting thing is you are not either the w- your right hand or your left, you're the one watching them.

And I think that that's a really important component of understanding IFS.

But just more specifically, internal family systems is a, it's a model that was developed by Richard Sh- Schwartz that understands the human mind as really naturally, inherently multiple.

And this concept has been around for thousands of years.

Separate the views we hold of ourselves from the true inner self, since it's easy to identify the characteristics that bring us the most reward.