'You are the sky, not the clouds'
Eckhart Tolle
Internal Family Systems - a therapeutic model
developed by Richard C. Schwartz -
shines a light on the age-old question:
'Who am I?'
IFS teaches us to differentiate and to look at that which we are not:
our parts or personalities.
This form of therapy focuses on the distinction and the relationship
between the 'Self' or consciousness and the 'parts' or personalities.
You can experience 'Self' as inner silence and peace,
you can experience the 'parts' as thoughts, feelings,
sometimes also as physical pain or tension.
You can 'have' parts or carry them with you for a while,
but you are not your parts.
For more information ,
follow the link 'Discover IFS':
Are you interested in:
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developing a secure, embodied feeling of self
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unlocking your potential in creativity and work
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gaining more insight into inner struggles or polarizations
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liberating yourself from emotional burdens
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investigating recurring patterns
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liberating yourself from legacy burdens
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learning how to apply Internal Family System therapy to yourself and integrate it into your daily life
'You're not your burdens,
you're not your parts'
Richard C Schwartz
Welcome
for live IFS sessions in Utrecht & online;
for more information, follow the link
'Sessions':
Meet Isabelle
Internal Family Systems practitioner
& Musician
Music is the oldest language in the world,
that enables us to feel and convey emotions
that sometimes cannot be expressed in words.
IFS shows us how to relate to thoughts and emotions,
from the self or consciousness.
What particularly touches me in music and in IFS
is that they are languages that we all speak
and understand on a deep, intrinsic level.
The more our parts feel seen and heard by our essence, the more we can start living from our 'self' or consciousness.
I also experience the beauty of this method in its autonomy: ultimately you can apply it without any help from outside .
For more information about my background, follow the link
'CV':
The path of IFS - and also of music - remains one of deepening and refinement.
There is no 'end goal'; the greatest good is to learn
how to deal with traumas or deep beliefs:
to learn how to relate to pain, sadness or emptiness;
then the possibility of transformation can arise.
Music can offer - for those who'd like to try it out - the opportunity to give a voice / sound to certain personalities or parts.
During a session we can use your own voice and singing bowls, the grand piano, piano, handpan or calabash.
“My IFS sessions with Isabelle have been of exceptional value for my self-knowledge and personal development.
Her quiet enthusiasm, empathy and eye for subtlety in the process provide a lot of safety and openness, are inspiring and very effective.
They make our interactions with parts into a peaceful and yet also transformative adventure.”
J. Vervoort, Associate Professor
of Transformative Imagination
"IFS sessions with Isabelle are not only rich at the level of gaining new insights for
your inner dialogues, but they also really get to the core in terms of underlying layers of feeling.
While many other approaches in therapy approach everything mainly cognitively, here I have the feeling for the first time that something is really being healed / positively transformed from the old emotional pain of intense memories.
Isabelle starts the conversation with you in such a beautiful, compassionate way,
that it invites you to look at the whole world with those soft eyes."
Suzanne Bindels, Psychologist
Walk & Talk coaching
“In the IFS sessions with Isabelle I feel a lot of safety, genuine interest in my inner world and a lack of judgement about whatever is going on inside me.
This way I can open up completely every time, even with parts that are very sensitive.
Isabelle offers beautiful new perspectives from IFS, which allows me to have a good dialogue with myself. It also helps to do the sessions while walking, which is helpful to 'keep the process moving'.
I experience the sessions with Isabelle as very valuable for my life. ”
C. Mac-Carty., Jazz pianist and conductor