Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

Richard Schwartz Founder of #internalfamilysystems discusses Trauma and Protector Parts

27 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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This YouTube transcript excerpt captures Richard Schwartz (founder of Internal Family Systems) explaining that engaging the inner critic compassionately—listening, honoring its service, and learning its origin—allows it to reveal what it protects, so therapists can access and unburden parts stuck in past trauma. The excerpt emphasizes opening the heart, gaining permission to approach protected parts, and the possibility of healing through unburdening.

If I had you talk to your.
Critic, the.
Conversation would go in a much different and better.
Way because the.
Critic wouldn't feel so attacked.
And could.
Reveal its secret history.
About why it.
Got into this role and what it's trying to protect you inside of you.
And you.
Would open your heart even more as you listen to it. And you could even honor it for its service as it tried to protect, even if it was totally misguided and screwed up your life. And then it could reveal what it protects, and then we would get permission to go to that.
And get whatever.
Parts are stuck in the past out of there and help them unburden.