Bethany Russell IFS Therapist

Bethany Russell IFS Therapist For all inquiries please refer to bethanyrussell.com * Social media messages may not receive timely responses. ✦

Licensed Counselor | Self Sovereign Method
♦ Parts Work | Virtual
for Ambitious & Intuitive Souls
△ Science + Soul approach
📍 CO, CA, TX & Worldwide

* I do not respond to messages here. Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in IFS therapy, nervous system healing, and spiritual integration for ambitious souls ready to stop living in their heads and start trusting their intuition. I help high-achieving, intuitive individuals become Self Sovereign through comprehensive healing that addresses what's actually hijacking your power - not just surface symptoms.

✦ Licensed Professional Counselor (CO, CA, TX)
✦ IFS Level I + Legacy Burdens training with Richard Schwartz
✦ Creator of the Self Sovereign Method
✦ Parts work for ambitious & intuitive souls
✦ Science + Soul approach to healing

Ready to reclaim your Self Sovereign power? Services available virtually in CO, CA, TX and intensives/coaching worldwide.

✦ To best serve you and protect your privacy, please contact me through bethanyrussell.com for all therapy, coaching, and intensive inquiries.

01/10/2026

Most women try to boost their self-respect by forcing discipline.
But the deeper shift happens when you redefine who you are.

One of the most powerful ways to build self-respect is crafting identity statements that anchor the woman you’re becoming.

In 2025, mine was:
“I’m a woman who does what I say I’m going to do.”

No negotiating. No spiraling. No talking myself out of what I already knew.

Just clean follow-through — small, consistent, self-honoring.

And it changed how I related to myself… and how everyone else related to me.

If you want to level up as a woman in 2026, start with the identity you claim.

What’s one statement your future self would stand behind? 🖤

selfrespect

No resolutions. No pressure. Just a few questions worth sitting with before we cross into 2026. Journal them. Whisper th...
01/01/2026

No resolutions. No pressure. Just a few questions worth sitting with before we cross into 2026. Journal them. Whisper them. Let them find you when you’re ready.

Which one landed? I’d love to know. 🖤

Intuition isn’t accessed through force. It’s accessed through regulation.
You can’t hear your deepest knowing when your ...
12/30/2025

Intuition isn’t accessed through force. It’s accessed through regulation.

You can’t hear your deepest knowing when your fear is screaming for protection.

You can’t connect with Spirit, guides, or inner wisdom when your body is braced for impact.

Your intuition was never broken — fear was just drowning it out.

That’s why this 10-second check-in works. It’s not about silencing fear or pushing past it. It’s about turning toward it and building a relationship with the part of you that’s trying to protect you. When that part feels seen and safe, it doesn’t have to be so loud. And when fear settles, your clarity finally has room to rise.

This is the real magic:
Safety → intuition → aligned action.

Save this for the next time fear gets loud. 🔖

One of the most disorienting parts of healing? Realizing that growth doesn’t move in straight lines.
In my own work, I’v...
12/21/2025

One of the most disorienting parts of healing? Realizing that growth doesn’t move in straight lines.

In my own work, I’ve revisited the same wound more times than I can count. The same younger part—a four-year-old girl on the stairs. The same moment in time. The same emotional landscape.

For a long time, I thought that meant I was failing. That I was stuck. That something wasn’t working.

Here’s what I understand now: I wasn’t revisiting because I was broken. I was returning because my system finally had more capacity to be with it (her) than before.

Healing doesn’t erase the past. It expands your ability to relate to it.

Each time an old wound resurfaces, you’re meeting it with a different nervous system. A different level of self-trust. A deeper internal support structure.

This is something I say to clients constantly: recurrence is not regression. It’s usually a sign of readiness.

Readiness to feel what couldn’t be felt before. 
To integrate what was once too much.
To stay present instead of abandoning yourself.

So if something old is knocking right now? You’re not behind. You’re finally resourced enough to go where you couldn’t before.

Send this to someone who needs to hear it. 🖤

You can be the most capable woman in every room and still feel completely unheld inside.

You can have your s**t togethe...
12/21/2025

You can be the most capable woman in every room and still feel completely unheld inside.

You can have your s**t together and still be one “are you okay?” away from falling apart.

(Except no one asks — because you’re the one who asks everyone else.)

Here’s what no one tells the strong ones:

You’re not tired because you’re doing too much.

You’re tired because you’ve been leading your entire life from a part of you that was only supposed to be temporary —
the one who took over when no one else showed up.

The one who decided it was safer to need nothing than to need and be disappointed.

That part kept you alive.

But she was never meant to run everything forever.

Sovereignty isn’t about doing more, doing less, or doing it better.

It’s about finally letting the part of you who has been holding it all together… rest.

And letting the real you lead.

Drop and emoji or comment below if you can hard relate 👇🏻

This is the energy we are building toward in 2026.
Stay close. 🖤

This is where leadership actually starts.
Not in certainty. In presence. 
That pause before you react?
That’s the skill....
12/18/2025

This is where leadership actually starts.
Not in certainty. In presence. 

That pause before you react?
That’s the skill. 🖤

Leaky energy still irritates me.
Not because it’s wrong,
but because I know how draining it is to live that way.
What ch...
12/16/2025

Leaky energy still irritates me.

Not because it’s wrong,
but because I know how draining it is to live that way.

What changed wasn’t my sensitivity to it.
What changed was my willingness to look at where my own energy was leaking.

Not loudly.
Quietly.

Through indecision.
Over-accommodation.
Staying open past my own knowing.

This year, especially the last few months,
I stopped trying to manage my energy
and started leading it.

Not by becoming colder.
Not by becoming rigid.

By deciding my energy is meant to be potent.
And contained.

That choice reshaped how I decide,
how I relate, and how settled I feel in my body.

Where does leaky energy show up for you? 🖤
Share below 👇🏻

The real work is rarely shows itself dramatic breakthrough.
It’s the moment you notice an old pattern rising and you sta...
12/16/2025

The real work is rarely shows itself dramatic breakthrough.

It’s the moment you notice an old pattern rising and you stay with yourself long enough to choose something different.

Emotional authority is built in those micro-moments —
the pause where there used to be a spiral,
the breath where you used to abandon yourself,
the shift you feel before anyone else can see it.

This is sovereignty at the emotional level:
a quiet returning to yourself
until presence becomes your new baseline.

It’s not perfection.
It’s practice.

And if you’re building this kind of inner leadership, you’re already doing far more than you realize.

Save this for the days you forget you’re changing.

And follow along if you want this work to shape your 2026.

January is bringing something for women who want emotional authority and sovereignty to become their way of moving through the world — not just a concept they understand. 🖤

You rise when your inner world steadies. Not when you push harder.
Emotional authority is what turns activation into cla...
12/14/2025

You rise when your inner world steadies. Not when you push harder.

Emotional authority is what turns activation into clarity, urgency into precision, and self-doubt into grounded leadership.

It’s the difference between striving and sovereignty.

Save this for when you need the reminder. Follow along if you’re ready to rise without losing yourself.

January holds something for women who want emotional authority to be their edge. Stay close. 🖤

We’re taught that closure comes from the other person. A final conversation. An apology. An explanation that makes every...
12/12/2025

We’re taught that closure comes from the other person. A final conversation. An apology. An explanation that makes everything make sense.

But here’s the nuance: 
Sometimes that moment never comes. Sometimes it wouldn’t be safe. Sometimes they don’t have the capacity. Sometimes they don’t think they owe you anything.

Closure isn’t a gift someone hands you. It’s the point where you stop waiting for them to finish the story for you. 

It’s something you build — one boundary, one breath, one honest decision at a time.

You don’t need their participation to be free. 🖤

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