The One Inside: An Internal Family Systems (IFS) podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

On today's episode I chat with Certified IFS Therapist Joanne Twombly. This episode, which premiered in Season 3, is one of the most popular and most downloaded of the entire series. 

We discuss:

• Why we still need coping skills
• The "Fire Drill" exercise to quickly unblend from parts
• Integrating IFS into Phase Oriented Treatment 
• Why diagnosis is helpful - Burdens (and Self!) in Managers, Firefighters, and Exiles 
• Safe spaces - Hypnosis and trance states

TW: We discuss trauma in this episode. There is discussion about 49 minutes into the episode that may be upsetting to some.

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Get Joanna's book here: Trauma and Dissociation Informed Internal Family Systems: How to Successfully Treat C-PTSD, and Dissociative Disorders: https://a.co/d/icIF2ja

Joanne wrote a chapter entitled "Integrating Phase Oriented Treatment of Clients with Dissociative Disorders" in the IFS: New Dimensions book, found here: https://a.co/d/aMQWiMJ

Learn more about Joanne here: https://joannetwombly.net/

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Watch video Clips from select episodes on  The One Inside Podcast - YouTube

Follow Tammy on Instagram @ifstammy: Tammy Sollenberger (@ifs.tammy) • Instagram photos and videos and on Facebook at The One Inside with Tammy Sollenberger: The One Inside: Internal Family Systems with Tammy Sollenberger | Facebook.

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Jeff Schrum co-produces The One Inside Podcast. He is an IFS Level 1 Practitioner.

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Are you new to IFS or want a simple way to get to know yourself? Tammy's book, "The One Inside: Thirty Days to your Authentic Self" is a PERFECT place to start. You can purchase it here: The One Inside: 30 Days To Your Authentic Self: Sollenberger, Tammy: 9780967688756: Amazon.com: Books or wherever books are sold.

Sign up for Tammy's email list and get a free "Get to know a Should part of you" meditation on her website

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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.

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If you are interested in sponsoring an episode or two of The One Inside Podcast please contact Tammy at [email protected]

 

This episode is sponsored by Pisgah Coaching Institute founded by IFS-trained Master Coach, Brian Jaudon. Enrollment is now open for 2025 season! To learn more go to:  Pisgah Coaching

 

This episode is sponsored by Pisgah Coaching Institute founded by IFS-trained Master Coach, Brian Jaudon. Enrollment is now open for 2025 season! To learn more go to: Landing Page | Pisgah Coaching

This episode is a re-release from November 2020.

On today's episode I speak with lead trainer with the IFS Institute, Susan McConnell. Her book, Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy: Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement and Touch in Practice is one of my all-time favorites. 

In this episode we cover:

Reconnecting Mind and Body: what disconnects us?

Importance of Embodying for Self energy

Witnessing through the body

Body systems and what they may teach us

The elements' connection to the body

Susan also offered a somatic IFS embodying meditation to begin the episode, which you can find on The One Inside Youtube channel: Somatic IFS embodiment meditation with Susan McConnell (youtube.com)

You can visit Susan's website here : Home | embodiedself

Enjoy!

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Watch video Clips from select episodes on  The One Inside Podcast - YouTube

Follow Tammy on Instagram @ifstammy: Tammy Sollenberger (@ifs.tammy) • Instagram photos and videos and on Facebook at The One Inside with Tammy Sollenberger: The One Inside: Internal Family Systems with Tammy Sollenberger | Facebook.

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Jeff Schrum co-produces The One Inside Podcast. He is an IFS Level 1 Practitioner.

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Are you new to IFS or want a simple way to get to know yourself? Tammy's book, "The One Inside: Thirty Days to your Authentic Self" is a PERFECT place to start. You can purchase it here: The One Inside: 30 Days To Your Authentic Self: Sollenberger, Tammy: 9780967688756: Amazon.com: Books or wherever books are sold.

Sign up for Tammy's email list and get a free "Get to know a Should part of you" meditation on her website

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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.

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If you are interested in sponsoring an episode or two of The One Inside Podcast please contact Tammy at [email protected]

On today's episode I chat with David Eckel, an accredited mental health social worker and IFS Level 2 therapist in Australia. He is currently completing his Ph.D. focused on Internal Family Systems Therapy and Adult Attachment. As part of his Ph.D. thesis, he conducted qualitative research asking the question: “How might Internal Family Systems Therapy conceptualise and treat adults with attachment avoidance and attachment anxiety?” He shares some of his findings and insights. 

In this episode we discuss:

• The significance of attachment patterns and how they can change across relationships and contexts
• Attachment defintion and history of the theory
• Understanding attachment patterns in repairing ruptures (repair is key)
• Intersections between attachment theory and IFS 
• Can we call IFS an attachment-based therapy?
• "The Controversy" around internal vs. external attachment
• His research process
• Can parts have different attachment styles?
• The role of Self in healing attachment wounds
• Ruptures and negotiating separation and togetherness are normal and can be modeled in therapy
• Anxious attachment may involve reactivity, helplessness, and pulling others in
• Avoidant attachment may involve deactivation, caretaking, and self reliance
• How attachment relates to parts

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Visit David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-eckel-46958232/

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Watch video Clips from select episodes on The One Inside's YouTube channel:  The One Inside Podcast - YouTube

Follow Tammy on Instagram @ifstammy: Tammy Sollenberger (@ifs.tammy) • Instagram photos and videos and on Facebook at The One Inside with Tammy Sollenberger: The One Inside: Internal Family Systems with Tammy Sollenberger | Facebook.

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Jeff Schrum co-produces The One Inside Podcast. He is currently enrolled in an IFS Level 1 training. 

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Are you new to IFS or want a simple way to get to know yourself? Tammy's book, "The One Inside: Thirty Days to your Authentic Self" is a PERFECT place to start. You can purchase it here: The One Inside: 30 Days To Your Authentic Self: Sollenberger, Tammy: 9780967688756: Amazon.com: Books or wherever books are sold.

Sign up for Tammy's email list and get a free "Get to know a Should part of you" meditation on her website

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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

On today's episode I connect with Dr. Virginia Seewaldt.

Virginia and I talk about (in order):

- Living in NYC and coping with Covid

- Her experience with IFS and her passion for racial justice

- Whiteness as the 'norm'

- Pantsuit Nation Facebook Story and 'centering the voices of color'

- Listening and learning about our own Prejudices

- White Fragility

- Whiteness and Privilege

- Worry about 'saying it wrong' is still centering 'me'

- What we do from here and having compassion for all of our parts

It is a bit long, but it is good! It was a connected, warm and engaging conversation.

For more information about Virginia:

https://racialliteracygroups.com/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/virginia-seewaldt-new-york-ny/61162

To register for the Heirloom Summit on Feb 24-26 and get a special discount as a listener of the podcast:

http://bit.ly/theoneinside

I'd love to connect with you at ifs.tammy on Instagram and Twitter and on The One Inside Facebook page.

Enjoy!

On today's episode, I chat with Steve Spitzer and Glenn Williams. Steve, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University in Boston, has taught, researched, and written on crime, justice and social control for three decades.

He is Level 2 IFS trained and has presented his use of the IFS model inside prisons at multiple IFS annual conferences and has written articles in the IFS newsletter, The Outlook.

In 2002, he founded the Jericho Circle Project, a non-profit organization that seeks to 'bring down the walls' by creating men's support groups in correctional facilities. 

Since the project began, almost 1000 incarcerated men have sat in Jericho Circles in county, state, and federal correctional institutions in Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island.

Glenn participated in the Jericho groups when he was incarcerated for 21 years and later met Steve in a different context. Glenn now 'pays it forward' with his organization, Our House Boston.

Glenn is Level One IFS trained and is passionate about spreading the word about our True Essence, especially to black men in urban settings.

Glenn is a reentry advocate and community investor who works with various individuals, families, organizations and businesses to raise awareness about and create solutions to the challenges of incarceration and prisoner reintegration.

This conversation is AMAZING. I cannot convey this in words. Here are some themes:

'Self' Discovery

Masculinity

Men's work inside prisons, power of vulnerability, and speaking for parts

'Climbing out of the man box'/Taking off masks

The importance of power in manliness for Black Men

Glenn states, "Who I pretend to be (what my community and society says I need to be in order to survive) and my Essence are not the same thing."

And, "IFS offers the opportunity for Self Discovery and Self Exploration (inside and outside of prison). Discovering that my shame and guilt are parts of me and do not have to define who I am at my core."

To find more about Jericho circle go to https://jerichocircle.org/

Check out this 90 minute documentary on the nature of their group work that was filmed at California State Prison Sacramento. That film, produced by the group that initially mentored them in the work (Inside Circle), will give you a taste of the kind of work done (albeit at a somewhat higher level of intensity than is typical of Jericho Circle’s groups) on their weekends. Video is found here: https://www.topic.com/the-work

To register for the Heirloom Summit on Feb 24-26 and get a special discount as a listener of the podcast:

http://bit.ly/theoneinside

I'd love to connect with you at ifs.tammy on Instagram and Twitter and on The One Inside Facebook page.

Enjoy!

On today's episode, I chat with Dr. Frank Anderson, a superstar in the IFS and Trauma world. You may know him as a lead trainer at the IFS Institute, by his PESI workshops, or as the co-author of the IFS Skills Training Manual.

He is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and I assumed we would talk about meds and neurotransmitters.

I was wrong.

Frank is personal, engaging, and hilarious. He shares a lot of his own story and is vulnerable and real.  I decided to leave in our entire conversation (instead of cutting out some of the beginning bits) because you get a feel for him right from the start.

We talk about Spirituality and the integration with Science and Research. We talk about LGBTQ plus, lots about complex trauma, and we touch on parenting and substance use. We talk about psychedelics, mediums, and ascended masters (I had to look that up afterwards).

It is a wild ride. 

Frank's website is here

To register for the Heirloom Summit on Feb 24-26 and get a special discount as a listener of the podcast:

https://www.blacktherapistsrock.com/Products/Products.aspx

I'd love to connect with you at ifstammy on Instagram and Twitter and on The One Inside Facebook page.

Please take care... and enjoy!

 

On today's episode I chat with Heidi Lindeman, a level 3 trained IFS therapist who is passionate about helping others transform their relationship with suicidal parts.

Heidi shares her own incredible story of suffering with suicidal thoughts, obsessions, and images for years and the healing transformation she made when she began to listen to these parts and relate to them differently.

Heidi's website is here

Heidi's YouTube channel is here

To register for the Heirloom Summit on Feb 24-26 and get a special discount as a listener of the podcast:

https://www.blacktherapistsrock.com/Products/Products.aspx

I'd love to connect with you at ifs.tammy on Instagram and Twitter and at The One Inside Facebook Page.

Enjoy!

On today's episode I chat with Jay Earley, a popular IFS teacher who authored the book, "Self Therapy" and who leads ongoing IFS courses and groups.

Our chat can be broken up into 3 sections-

1. His story, and similarities and differences between what he teaches and what Dick teaches. He shares his take on unblending and inner critics. He shares his 'GPS of the mind' program.

He states, "I am not competing with IFS."

2.  Capacity Development- What are the 'capacities of Self' to be developed and discovered?

3. "The Great Turning"--- "Inner work for the world"

Here is the website to ALL the things Jay offers:

https://personal-growth-programs.com/

This is the online tool we discussed:

https://selftherapyjourney.com/

I would love to hear what you think the 'Capacity' is for the word I am trying to find in the middle of the episode. The word was 'Scarcity,' and I MEANT to ask Jay what he thought the capacity was but got lost in trying to find the word! Let me know if you can help me out on this one @ifs.tammy on Instagram and Twitter and The One Inside Facebook Page. 

I will see you there.

Enjoy!

On today's episode, I chat with Dorothea Hrossowyc and Ingrid Helander.  Ingrid and Dorothea along with Tyler Haaren, Joya Lonsdale, Julia Sullivan, and Paula Shulman led a workshop on "Healing Racism From the Inside Out, Unburdening our Parts around Race and Racism", at the 2016 IFS Annual Conference,  and were a part of the plenary session, along with Tyler, Joya and Donna Dellal-Ferme at the 2017 IFS Annual Conference titled Self-Led Activism. Releasing Your Inner Change Agent. 

I encourage you to listen and observe your own parts' reactions. Use these as trailheads to do your own work and meet the younger parts of you who hold pain.

We talk about this book a lot-- check out this article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-author-speaks/201709/my-grandmother-s-hands

They share their own personal stories and their experiences working with their racist parts.

What is said over and over is the power of the model to heal, and the importance of following the trailheads of our own racism to get to our exiles and our own ancestors and legacy burdens.

We talk about so much- indigenous peoples, polyvagal theory, classism, capitalism, grief and shame. And, we laugh... I promise. 

Read about The Dakota 38 here

Ingrid has an ebook/workbook that uses IFS and Polyvagel theory to help people with chronic worry. It is found at www.calmyourworries.com 

She also will be offering a mastermind membership in 2021 to help people move from worry and self-doubt to calm self-confidence. For more information, sign up for her newsletter at Ingrid's website

Dorothea is available to work with you around Unburdening our Racists Parts or Parts Affected by Racism.

She also offers workshops on Working with Anxiety to Release Unconscious Limiting Thoughts, Working with Anger or Angry Parts as a Powerful Tool, Setting your Internal GPS... Your I-GPS, and Healing Parts around Boundaries. Find out more about Dorothea and her offerings at her website here

We talk about several handouts which you can get by contacting her. Email her to receive "The Concrete Work of Eliminating Your Racism" which is a list of trailheads at [email protected].

And, as always, come say Hi to me @ifstammy on Instagram and Twitter or at The One Inside Facebook page. I love hearing from you.

Enjoy.

On today's episode, I chat with Joan Ryan, an internationally recognized Enneagram expert and Leadership coach. Fortunately for our community, Joan is also Level One Trained in IFS. 

I have been looking for someone to talk to me about IFS and the Enneagram and was beyond thrilled when I found Joan. 

Joan is a type 9 and I am a type 3 so we talk about these types a lot. We also talk a bit about type 8s.

Whether you are new to the enneagram or not, I think you will find our conversation interesting and informative. Like me, you may walk away with a desire to know more!

Find out more about Joan and get her amazing "Help me find my enneagram type' card set on her website here

Email Joan at [email protected]

Join her Facebook page Enneagram Learning with Joan Ryan

I'd love to hear what your type is and chat with you about the enneagram and IFS- thoughts, ideas, wonderings, etc. on Instagram and Twitter @ifstammy and The One Inside Facebook Page.

Enjoy!