“Yesterday, I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am wise so I am changing myself.”
“Beyond the field of right and wrong, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
Richard Schwartz, Founder of IFS
“You are not your parts, and your parts are not your burden.”
“Even the worst impulses and feelings – the urge to drink, the compulsion to cut oneself, the paranoid suspicions, the murderous fantasies – spring from parts of a person that themselves have a story to tell and the capacity to become something positive and helpful to the client’s life. The point of therapy isn’t to get rid of anything, but to help it transform.”
Rudy Francisco
“I’m still learning to love the parts of myself that no one claps for.”
Tanya Markul
“You can’t hide from your inner shit. Nope. You can’t sleep it off. You can’t surgically remove it. You can’t eat/buy/wish/exercise it way. You have to turn towards it and embrace it. Look into its eyes. Be patient and so fucking tender. Then get intimate with it until shows you another way, a different you.”
