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Richard Schwartz, PhD Founder of #InternalFamilySystems on the Radical Responsibility Podcast 🎙️

11 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Transcript excerpt from a Radical Responsibility podcast interview with Richard Schwartz (founder of Internal Family Systems). Schwartz critiques the cultural instruction to 'move on' from trauma, explaining that suppressing memories and emotions can 'lock away' inner parts (inner children/exiles), leaving them abandoned and requiring caretaking parts to manage daily function.

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And in this culture, everybody around us tells us to do that. They say, just move on, don't look back, you can't change what happened, just move on. So you're encouraged to move on from what you think are just memories or the emotions of the trauma or sensations. Not realizing you're locking away your juice, you're locking away these precious inner children who now feel abandoned on top of hurt. In the case I just mentioned, that little nine year old became exiled because she was still carrying all those feelings from that time. And the client couldn't function if she stayed in that energy all the time. So her caretaking part had to do its job.