The Parts Party
Do you resonate with the idea of being a system of many different parts or subpersonalities that have different hopes and agendas for you, rather than feeling like one fixed personality? And perhaps you know deep down that your deepest authentic Self is already healed and whole, even if it most days it doesn’t really feel like that? Same! This is the understanding of the Internal Family Systems model — created by Richard Schwartz. This podcast is a celebration of what it is like to live as a system of parts, learning to be more Self Led. We welcome all your parts to this ’Parts Party’ with Adriana and Ella, therapists and IFS enthusiasts, as they discuss the lived experience of the Internal Family Systems. This podcast is not affiliated with IFS Institute. To learn more about IFS go to: Mind Beyond in Australia: https://www.mindbeyond.com.au International: https://www.ifs-institute.com About Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/ About Ella: https://ellashannon.com/
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Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Rebecca O'Callaghan is a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist based in Ireland. She shares her journey of understanding herself as a system of parts; from being a child who was conflicted with knowing she was both a 'good girl' and a 'bad girl', to studying Gestalt Therapy and being particularly drawn to the chair work and working with parts through this model. Rebecca discusses flow states and her deepening experiences of Self Energy, and how intellectual parts of her have loved the framework of IFS- putting words to what is known internally.
The IFS Trojan horse meme we mentioned: https://imgflip.com/i/9z7cpd
More Information:
Rebecca: https://rebeccaocallaghan.com
IFS Australia: https://mindbeyond.com.au
IFS Institute: https://ifs-institute.com
Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/
Ella: https://ellashannon.com
Wednesday May 28, 2025
Wednesday May 28, 2025
This meditation is a lovely taster of the many beautiful meditations and experiential exercises in Laura's book 'Awakening to Love'
Laura Patryas, PhD, is a psycho-spiritual counsellor and IFS practitioner. She utilizes the latest scientific insights alongside embodied nonduality, offering a unique and universal path to healing. With over 20 years of research and personal exploration, Laura brings a deeply transformative perspective to her practice.
Dr Laura Patryas: https://www.drlaurapatryas.org/
IFS Australia: https://mindbeyond.com.au/
IFS Institute: https://ifs-institute.com
Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/
Ella: https://ellashannon.com/
Wednesday May 28, 2025
Wednesday May 28, 2025
Laura is a spiritual teacher and IFS therapist, as well as a researcher and author with a PhD in psychophysics. She first encountered IFS ten years ago—by accident—when she mistakenly signed up for what she thought was a Family Constellations workshop. Instead, it turned out to be an IFS Constellations workshop, which helped her to powerfully connect with her grieving and anxious parts.
In this episode of the Parts Party, Laura shares some gorgeous examples of Self-Led parenting, the gift of psychedelics as part of her journey of knowing Self and gifts us with an eloquent exploration of Self, parts & ego.
Awakening to Love, by Dr Laura Patryas
About Laura: https://www.drlaurapatryas.org/
IFS Australia: https://mindbeyond.com.au/
IFS Institute: https://ifs-institute.com/
Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/
Ella: https://ellashannon.com/
Thursday May 15, 2025
Thursday May 15, 2025
This is an IFS meditation to get to know bodily pain or symptoms that have no structural cause. It is based on somatic tracking, a tool in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) that helps us observe pain and symptoms from a place of safety. IFS helps us get to this calm, compassionate place by taking care of the parts that are naturally worried about the pain. We then listen to the sensation and see what it is trying to teach us.
To learn more about IFS and mind-body pain, here is an article by Manya. https://partsandself.org/what-can-physical-pain-teach-us/
More about Manya https://www.meetmanya.com/
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Thursday May 15, 2025
Thursday May 15, 2025
Manya Ronay is a Certified Level 3 IFS Practitioner and Certified Health Education Specialist. Originally from the USA and living in Israel, Manya shares openly about how her inner system has adapted to living in war time. We discuss parts that come up around eating and food, how time with family activates our parts and how chronic illness can show up with a message to slow down when manager parts really take over. Another beautiful conversation about learning to be Self-Led and the gift of IFS.
To learn more about IFS and mind-body pain, here is an article by Manya: https://partsandself.org/what-can-physical-pain-teach-us/
Manya Ronay: www.meetmanya.com
IFS Australia: https://mindbeyond.com.au/
IFS Institute: https://ifs-institute.com/
Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/
Ella: https://ellashannon.com/
Monday Apr 28, 2025
Monday Apr 28, 2025
Amitayus Syzygy is an IFS Therapist from Phoenix, Arizona. He joins this episode of the parts party, sharing early experiences of loss, how thousands of hours of spiritual practices brought beautiful insights and experiences but ultimately did not change deep seated patterns in his relationships and how through Internal Family Systems he learnt to look after his own inner children, rather than hoping his partner could be responsible for their wellbeing.
Amitayus brings a rich discussion about Self and Self-Energy to this episode that I am sure listeners will delight in.
About Amitayus: https://www.b-inghuman.com/about
IFS Australia: https://mindbeyond.com.au/
IFS Institute: https://ifs-institute.com/
Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/
Ella: https://ellashannon.com
Saturday Apr 19, 2025
Saturday Apr 19, 2025
A 15min meditation to connect and hear from different parts, using a visualisation of parts around a campfire of Self Energy, based on the principles of Internal Family Systems model of therapy created by Richard Schwartz.
More info:
IFS Australia: https://mindbeyond.com.au/
IFS Institute: https://ifs-institute.com/
Ella: https://ellashannon.com/
Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/
Saturday Apr 19, 2025
Saturday Apr 19, 2025
Dean Hilton joins us this episode, sharing about the deep integration of 'being parts and Self' in his life, and patterns of ruminating / looping thought and how he has worked with this through Internal Family Systems . He is an IFS therapist from Melbourne, who has spent his life integrating the healing meditation and body practises of Eastern traditions with evidence-based modalities to provide a holistic approach to healing.
Learn more:
Dean: https://www.deanhilton.com.au/
IFS Australia: https://mindbeyond.com.au/
More about IFS Internationally: https://ifs-institute.com/
Adriana: https://www.instagram.com/adriana_draws_therapy
Ella: https://ellashannon.com/
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
A lovely guided exercise for connecting with what the Internal Family Systems calls your Self Energy. Led by IFS therapist Argnesh Rose.
More about Argnesh: https://argnesh-rose.yolasite.com/
More about Internal Family Systems: https://ifs-institute.com/
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
In our first guest episode, our guest Arghesh Rose shares with generosity about her own parts and her journey of understanding herself as neurodiverse. She shares the gift of connection as a way that she gets in touch with Self Energy.
More about Argnesh here: https://argneshrose.yolasite.com/
More about IFS: https://ifs-institute.com/
More about Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/
More about Ella: https://ellashannon.com/