Category Archives: Work with parts

Work with Parts

Posted on August 30, 2025 by jenny

August 29 Therapy session with Erica: She tells me “It’s really OK to just be here with how it is, change happens all by itself, we don’t have to make it happen.  Clarity arises out of giving permission to things … Continue reading →

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Work with Very Young, Non-verbal Parts

Posted on October 30, 2024 by jenny

This is the first post in a while.  I’ve been having a really hard time, had to move to the Health Center where I could be taken care of.  If I hadn’t found this piece of writing, written when I … Continue reading →

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Difficult Grief

Posted on October 11, 2024 by jenny

Written after a session with Erica in April 2015, and posted at that time. So what happened with Erica?  I told her about the pain of spring — the earth waking up and I’m still frozen.  Also told her I … Continue reading →

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Work with a Very Young Part

Posted on October 8, 2024 by jenny

From my journal for October 8: Reading my blog post for February  2015, “Deep Work,” work I did over quite a period of time, January 11 to February 14. It was an attempt to get in touch with a very … Continue reading →

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Intense Work with Parts

Posted on March 22, 2024 by jenny

Intense therapy session with Erica.  We did some parts work which I found very complex and confusing at the time, and I was upset when it ended.  But reading back over my notes, I was able to make a lot … Continue reading →

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The Traumatized Baby

Posted on February 19, 2024 by jenny

This is a repost of something first posted in July 2010.  So amazing.  Here I am working with parts before I had any idea about the Internal Family Systems work. It’s also how I’ve been feeling this week: “I feel … Continue reading →

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Talk with Youngest Part

Posted on February 18, 2024 by jenny

At least I think/feel it’s the youngest. She can’t talk so I have to sense her feelings. I was reading James Hollis’s book What Matters Most, and got to the part where he talks about doing what your soul wants … Continue reading →

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Confusing, Difficult Time

Posted on January 31, 2024 by jenny

I’ve been having a really hard confusing time. Excerpts from some relevant journal entries: Friday, January 26   … this odd realization.  Something to do with if God is in everything, then I “am” God, if god feels my pain then … Continue reading →

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Another Look at “Obstreperous Part”

Posted on January 6, 2024 by jenny

Some of this material was first published in October, in two separate posts. The Daily Good today  (10/22/23) was an essay by Francis Weller on grief. When I first heard about his work from my therapist, I went to a … Continue reading →

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Rescuing the Baby on the Garbage Can

Posted on December 30, 2023 by jenny

from my journal for December 9 Erica said my system is so open that the moment I unbend, and see the part as separate from me, I offer a hug and the exile runs into my arms.  All my life … Continue reading →

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