What's Blocking Your Potential? IFS Coaching Explained | Janet Livingstone

What if the very patterns holding you back are trying to protect you?

In this conversation we explore how Internal Family Systems or IFS coaching and the practice of holding space can help you deepen your relationship with yourself, so you are more ready to discover your superpower, unlock your potential, and create your impact in the world.

If you’ve ever felt stuck, conflicted, or unsure why certain patterns, inner critics, or emotional reactions keep showing up, this conversation offers a powerful reframe. IFS coaching helps purpose-driven people…
➡️develop more self-leadership
➡️create emotional regulation, and
➡️increase compassion for the parts of themselves that get in the way
…without trying to “fix” them.

For those on the path to discover your superpower, unlock your potential, and create your impact, other guests have shared that improving your understanding of and relationship with yourself is big accelerator.

And today’s guest, Janet Livingstone, helps others develop that deeper understanding of themselves.

Janet is an IFS-informed executive coach, an organizational development consultant, and facilitator.

And in this conversation, she gives one of the best descriptions of what IFS is, and the difference between using IFS in therapy and in coaching.

Her superpower is helping others heal, and she shares her experiences as an IFS coach and a trained integration facilitator for clients who have gone on guided psychedelic journeys and want help in making sense of the new neural pathways they’ve created.

In this episode, Janet answers the following questions:
➡️ What is Internal Family Systems or IFS?
➡️ What is IFS Coaching?
➡️ What is psychedelic journey integration?
➡️ What is IFS Team Coaching?

My favorite quote from the episode:
“It is a spiritual experience to witness someone else’s healing.”

Resources mentioned in the episode:
➡️ Janet’s Website
➡️ Janet’s LinkedIn

Chapters
0:00 Intro & Welcome
2:36 What is Internal Family Systems or IFS Coaching?
6:14 Understanding Parts: Inner Critics, Protectors, and Exiles
12:35 IFS Coaching vs Internal Family Systems Therapy: What’s the Difference?
17:01 How IFS Helps Leaders and Coaches Hold Space
25:50 Psychedelic Integration and Emotional Healing
30:29 Healing PTSD, Depression, and Anxiety: What the Research Says
33:26 What Inspired Janet’s Superpower of Helping Others Heal
37:57 What Janet Knows To Be True About Helping Others Heal
39:45 Bringing IFS Coaching Into Teams and Organizations

Music in this episode by Ian Kastner.

"What Do You Know To Be True?" is an invitation to be inspired to discover your superpower, unlock your potential, and create your impact in the world.

This podcast is for people leaders, coaches, org development practitioners and anyone who is working on their leadership capabilities and personal growth, through coaching or not, in their pursuit of unlocking and living into their possibilities.

For more info about the podcast or to check out more episodes, go to:
https://whatdoyouknowtobetrue.com/episodes

"What Do You Know To Be True?" is hosted by Roger Kastner, is a production of Three Blue Pens, and is recorded on the ancestral lands of the Duwamish and Suquamish people. To discover the ancestral lands of the indigenous people whose land you may be on, go to: https://native-land.ca/

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