Just to have our listeners be clear as we start.

I'd be happy to.

So IFS is, uh, was developed by Dick Schwartz about 40 years ago, and, um, what he discovered in listening to his clients was his clients were talking about parts of themself, and these parts tended to have a protective nature, and there are also parts of ourselves that get wounded and hold burdens, and these parts aren't their burdens, they're aren- they're aren't their wounds, but they hold onto them, and they get exiled for the, the whole system's safety.

For a person's safety, they get exiled.

And what he found is that we all have a core essence of who we are that's wise and compassionate and loving.

You know, to, to bring in what Leah said is like, "Oh, why aren't we more loving?" Right? And, and the reason is that we have these protective parts that, that block our hearts sometimes.

And, and so what he found is we all have this, this core essence of our self-energy, which is really the healing agent for each of us to work with our system of parts and help those ones that have been exiled.

So...