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Befriending Our Parts in Eating Disorder Recovery with Internal Family Systems

Internal Family Systems (IFS) revolves around the idea that all of us have many “parts” or inner personalities, and that each part has its own individual way of handling various situations to manage the system (ourselves) as a whole, often in well-meaning but self-destructive ways. Through the power of a processes called Self-leadership and showing compassionate curiosity toward our parts, we are able to relate to and understand what each of our parts really needs, so that we can heal as a whole.

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