Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts

Discovering Your True Self Through Internal Family Systems Therapy

De: Richard C. Schwartz

Narrado por: Richard C. Schwartz PhD

Explore your multifaceted mind - an invitation to personal healing and spiritual awakening

Inside each of us, there are many distinct selves. “Though we’ve been raised to believe that healthy people have a single ‘self’”, explains Dr. Richard C. Schwartz, “acknowledging our multiplicity gives a far deeper awareness of how our minds actually work.” Dr. Schwartz’s pioneering Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy has become renowned in psychotherapy for its power to help us connect with and heal the many distinct facets - or parts - of our psyche. With Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts, he brings you a practical training course for using this method for your growth, well-being, and especially your spiritual journey.

Embracing your inner diversity as a path to wholeness

One of the key lessons of IFS therapy is that there are no bad parts. “Trauma or life experience can cause our parts to take on burdens”, says Dr. Schwartz. “Yet when we bring the spiritual values of curiosity, gratitude, and kindness to these burdened parts, we discover incredible opportunities for healing and awakening.” Through instruction and guided meditations, Dr. Schwartz shows us how to engage even the most disturbing or unwanted parts of our psyche with openness and love - so we may unlock the hidden gifts and wisdom each part contains.

Many forms of therapy and even spiritual practice inadvertently put us in conflict with ourselves as we try to transcend or reject our parts. With Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts, Dr. Schwartz invites you to embrace each of your many parts with self-compassion - and discover the inclusive greater Self that is your true, divine nature.

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Great practical guide

The model developed by Dick Schwartz is incredibly powerful. And this audiobook provides an easy approach of this model. But what made this book incredibly useful for me is the multitude of guided meditations, which provided practical paths to parts discovery and dialogue. This helped me go from a theoretical understanding of the model to the beginning of its embodiment.

Helpful ways to gain a better relationship with self

Dr Schwartz practices what he preaches and it is evident in his work. These meditations and explanations will help form a foundation of how to engage with parts of yourself in helpful ways, creating healing and harmony within.

Excellent for integration work

Very illuminating and enlightening. What an awesome concept! I love the way the workbook is organized with the therapist as if I am in real sessions. I used it to do integration work for plant medicine.

Transformational

Love IFS! and Dick is a humble and inspiring discoverer and guide of the landscape of our internal world and has enabled life changing transformation in my own and my family's lives...

wonderful book

includes guided sessions I found to be very helpful. excited to continue my own personal evolution with IFS.

Healing my parts

I have inner peace, and harmony is beginning to be expressed between my true self and my parts. It is because of my participation with this process (IFS) combined with ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families) and the ACA Loving Parent Guidebook ACA meetings.

Let the healing begin!

this is the most helpful self improvement course or book I have ever invested my time in :)

Great book, great practice

Dr. Schwartz is deeply connected and understands the inner workings of the human mind and heart. Love the meditations too.

powerful!

The is an amazing book from the beginning. It provides a comprehensive ways to understand the parts of you!

Amazing!!!!

Feeling like I’m getting to know my mind in a way that I have never before. I wish I had found this system decades earlier!