Have you ever echoed the musing of the Apostle Paul, “For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do”? You’re not alone! Many of us have this experience–feeling like there are different parts of us that want different things. Those feelings are not abnormal. On today’s episode, we talked with Jenna Riemersma about Internal Family Systems–a revolutionary approach to understanding why we do things we don’t want to do and have such a hard time doing what we want to do.
Is the approach Jenna is illustrating basically just a different explanation/vocabulary for the PTSI we do in Betrayal & Beyond? Like the “God Image – Self” is your prefrontal cortex, the “managers/controllers” are your trauma categories/survival responses/amygdala reactions, and the exiles are the feelings or core beliefs developed from trauma?
Is the approach Jenna is illustrating basically just a different explanation/vocabulary for the PTSI we do in Betrayal & Beyond? Like the “God Image – Self” is your prefrontal cortex, the “managers/controllers” are your trauma categories/survival responses/amygdala reactions, and the exiles are the feelings or core beliefs developed from trauma?