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Gabby Bernstein is a spiritual teacher and a #1 New York Times bestselling author. I am obsessed with her new book, which is called Self-Help: This is Your Chance to Change Your Life. In it, Gabby shares what she's learned from the work that she’s done with Richard Schwartz, who founded the therapy model known as Internal Family Systems, or IFS. Which Gabby will explain near the beginning of our conversation.
But I’ll just say now, although many of you already know this—I love IFS and Dick Schwartz. He’s been on Pulling the Thread before, here his episode “Recovering Every Part of Ourselves.”
Dick wrote the foreword to Gabby's book, but what I appreciate about Gabby's book is that it is not trying to replace professional therapy in any way. As the title suggests, it's really about sharing a practice that's safe and effective to do on your own. And that's Gabby's four-step check-in process that she's used to transform the patterns that have held her back. It's an incredible tool, and today, Gabby is going to walk us through it.
After we wrap up, I share a little more from Dick Schwartz himself on IFS and our protector parts.
MORE ON IFS:
Dick Schwartz on Pulling the Thread: “Recovering Every Part of Ourselves”
No Bad Parts, by Dick Schwartz
Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts, by Dick Schwartz
MORE FROM GABBY BERNSTEIN:
Join Gabby on her Change Your Life Tour in New York, L.A., San Francisco or Boston
Gabby’s Podcast: “Dear Gabby”
Follow Gabby on Instagram
Gabby’s Website
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT:
ELISE:
I, like you, am an IFS fan and a Richard Schwartz. Stan. I just learned this word, what's the word? And Stan like super fan. I think it's now passe, but I have a tween.