Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind-and healing the many
parts that make you who you are. Is there just one "you"? We've been taught to believe we
have a single identity and to feel fear or shame when we can't control the inner voices that
don't match the ideal of who we think we should be. Yet Dr. Richard Schwartz's research now
challenges this "mono-mind" theory. "All of us are born with many sub-minds-or parts " says Dr.
Schwartz. "These parts are not imaginary or symbolic. They are individuals who exist as an
internal family within us-and the key to health and happiness is to honor understand and love
every part." Dr. Schwartz's Internal Family Systems (IFS) model has been transforming
psychology for decades. With No Bad Parts you'll learn why IFS has been so effective in areas
such as trauma recovery addiction therapy and depression treatment-and how this new
understanding of consciousness has the potential to radically change our lives. Here you'll
explore: ¿ The IFS revolution-how honoring and communicating with our parts changes our
approach to mental wellness ¿ Overturning the cultural scientific and spiritual assumptions
that reinforce an outdated mono-mind model ¿ The ego the inner critic the saboteur-making
these often-maligned parts into powerful allies ¿ Burdens-why our parts become distorted and
stuck in childhood traumas and cultural beliefs ¿ How IFS demonstrates human goodness by
revealing that there are no bad parts ¿ The Self-discover your wise compassionate essence of
goodness that is the source of healing and harmony ¿ Exercises for mapping your parts
accessing the Self working with a challenging protector identifying each part's triggers and
more IFS is a paradigm-changing model because it gives us a powerful approach for healing
ourselves our culture and our planet. As Dr. Schwartz teaches "Our parts can sometimes be
disruptive or harmful but once they're unburdened they return to their essential goodness.
When we learn to love all our parts we can learn to love all people-and that will contribute
to healing the world."
