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My name is Andrew Anderson. I am a teacher and psychotherapist. I use a model of therapy called IFS.

05/23/2024

Do you have parts of you that seek forgiveness? On a journey inward, we can sometimes discover parts of us way down, deep down, exiled so far away to hold their shame & guilt so that no one else has to see it or feel it.

In building relationship with the exiled parts, in sharing trust, and witnessing what they need us to see, we might engender a big love within us that we can share. We might help them release and integrate with the rest of us. We might forgive, so that they can know our love.

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05/16/2024

We welcome all parts! All parts of ourselves are exactly that...parts of us. So no matter how hard we may try to push them away, extinguish them, or make them extinct, they're only further exiled-- never fully disappeared.

This quote reminds us that parts of us may desire to improve; to change our internal dynamics, to rearrange our parts, to try something new. That is welcome too.

We might try to welcome this 'perfect' duality. We might work to build trust with all sides. We might strive to be our biggest, wisest self at the head of it all, leading our parts to greater harmonies.

We might keep in our minds and in our hearts the whole time, all of me is welcome. Even my desire to grow.
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05/10/2024

When meeting our parts and sometimes introducing our biggest, wisest Self to them for the first time in a long time that they can remember-- trust takes time.

To build trust with the parts of us who have been protecting us, managing our lives, holding our deepest burdens, our highest, wisest Self can put action behind the words we share with them.

Perhaps meeting the intention to spend more time with our parts ; maybe sending the support we collaborate toward discussing ; perhaps helping our parts unburden and release... trust takes time, and this quote reminds us-- action.
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04/22/2024

Happy Earth day! May we each feel connected to that earth energy below!
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04/10/2024

Happy national sibling day!
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04/04/2024

Be gentle as you approach the truth your parts hold. They're not always ready to share it with you or allow you to bear witness.

This WH Auden quote reminds us that the our role is not to plumb ever-deeper depths of our inner world, until our inner world gives us permission to do so.

Listen to your body.

Listen to your parts.

Go at the pace that all of you is ready for.
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03/27/2024

The external world can be anything but peaceful. Sometimes our inner world follows suit.

This proverb reminds us that the opposite can also be true : the outer world can follow suit of our internal world. Let us strive for inner peace, and let the world around us change too.
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03/21/2024

With a here and now approach, we can learn from the past without staying primarily back there. We can learn from the past without being stuck in it.

Our parts can show us scenes that need to be witnessed; our parts can share memories that they're holding for us; our parts can let us know that it currently feels impossible for them to let even a pin drop of the past go. All parts welcome.

And with self-leadership we can build relationship and trust to aid our parts in unburdening the past. They can come forward; whenever they are ready.
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03/14/2024

Listen to your parts. They are sending you calls to lead.

The tightness in your chest, the sweat in your palms, the racing thoughts in your head ... these are ways our parts let us know that they are working-- hard! And these are clues for us that they could use some support.

Some of our parts might be resistant; they've been doing this job a long time, and they don't trust that anyone else could do it or help.

Other parts might not even recognize us if we did show up to lead, because they may have never seen our truest, highest, wisest Self before.

Still other parts may be yearning for us to come find them that they will not go away-- even if they're hard to reach because other parts are keeping them exiled away to avoid their pain.

We are being called to lead our bodies; lead our parts; lead our lives. We can answer.
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03/08/2024

Happy ! Shout out of honor, love, support, and gratitude to my female friends, family, colleagues, & clients. As this quote reminds us, let us breathe ourselves bigger into our highest, truest, wisest self. Let us imagine ourselves growing bigger than all the parts of us. Let us embody a bigness that changes our inner and outer worlds.

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03/05/2024

Maybe your childhood is your paintbrush? Your body is your canvas? Your teenage years are your watercolors, your adulthood the oils? Your experiences are your strokes, your thoughts are your chalks?

I'm running out of painterly knowledge, but this Pierre Janet quote reminds us that we are ART. We are beautiful, complicated, subjective, modern, handmade PIECES. And we are assembled by everything and anything that can help make us.

Behold life's artistry. Take in yourself-- and all your parts-- as forming some sort of spectacular work in progress; a masterpiece in the making!
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02/28/2024

It’s a process, they say. It’s a practice. A way of life.

There doesn’t need to be an end point to our life on the inside. We don’t need to strive for ‘being done’ with our parts. It’s okay if you don’t have goals.

One overarching theme of therapeutic work can be building a musculature around what feels best for our systems : maybe weekly check ins, maybe new roles, maybe a return to unburdening, deeper healing, and self-leadership.

You can do whatever you need to do; this quote reminds us it doesn’t have to get ‘done.’

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