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Unlocking Deep Healing with IFS and Psychedelics
The synergy between Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and psychedelics offers a powerful approach to healing by helping individuals access their true self and meet their inner parts with compassion. Psychedelics dissolve mental barriers, allowing deeper engagement with parts that hold trauma or pain, while IFS provides a framework for working with these parts in a loving, non-judgmental way. By integrating the insights from psychedelic journeys into everyday life, profound healing and transformation become possible. Ceremonia weaves IFS into its retreats, offering participants a deeply supportive space for both the psychedelic experience and its integration.
Loving All Our Parts
Life seeks to create life. Our lives are aimed at finding or creating safety from the moment we are born. The mechanisms by which we seek safety are developed at an early age. In Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dr. Richard Schwartz espoused that we are made up of “parts” that are sub-personalities designed to keep us safe. It is a profound shift to realize that the burdens and limiting beliefs we carry were ultimately formed to keep us safe. When our protective parts relax, when we can be our Self in its highest, we feel great peace and Oneness with the Self of others. Thus, the journey of consciousness is to love all of our parts because they are all part of who we are.