The Beyond IFS

Recovery Intensive

February 2025

Feel, Heal and Thrive!

I understand what it’s like to not live your truth.

And what it takes to live an authentic, connected life of freedom.

I was the “sensitive” person in my family. I was also the caretaker in my family whose salvation was found in helping others, focusing on other people and engaging in addictive and compulsive behaviors to manage my feelings. Simultaneously, I had the resourcefulness or in IFS what they call Self-energy that self-soothed through playing pretend, dancing, and being creative in my own world.

Creativity, true empathy, helping others and seeking truth through chaos has been not only a sacred place of respite but also connection to a higher source for me. These qualities have been my guide to a path of recovery in a myriad of ways-The 12 Steps, somatic/movement therapy, buddhist psychology & practice and the path of parts-work through the psychotherapy model of Internal Family Systems. I simultaneously studied these experiential therapy systems as I healed that required me to be vulnerable and face my own deepest wounds as part of the training. I have seen and experienced first-hand the power of group experiential parts-work and how quickly people transform into living in alignment with their values and bring joy to their everyday lives.

My life experiences and your life experiences are what co-create your healing, support and connection to purpose together. I have taken the best of what I have learned in my many professional trainings and my life experiences of recovering from PTSD, complex grief, disordered eating, addictive behaviors and co-dependency to give you the best methods that actually work. I have created a powerful combination of Experiential Somatic Arts, Buddhist Practices & Parts-Work (IFS) called Beyond IFS to connect you quickly with your authentic self, increase self-compassion and shift habitual patterns.

Beyond IFS Recovery Intensive February 2025

HEAL

protective parts of us that keep us stuck

patterns & wounds from ACOA parenting & past abuse

FEEL

Learn a new, embodied relationship with your feelings to decrease overwhelm

THRIVE

Increase compassion for yourself and others

Deepen intimacy

Move into aligned relationships and

greater life purpose

With Adrienne Glasser LCSW and collaborations from

Laura Wood LCSW, Kathleen Murphy LMFT, and

Mell McCracken CADC- II ASAT

What we heal in the IFS Recovery Intensive

We have often heard the things we learned to do as children to navigate and survive a dysfunctional family got us through, but now as adults get in our way. Perfectionism, hypervigilance, co-dependency, care-taking, self-abandonment, over-achieving, dissociating, numbing, addictive and compulsive behaviors, intense inner criticism, isolation, denial, reactivity and control are a list of common strategies. And the list goes on. We created these protective adaptive coping strategies to stave off pain and abuse in childhood. These strategies are what IFS calls protective parts and they keep us stuck in the patterns and wounds from the past, many rooted in ACOA parenting and past abuse. These ways of moving through the world and relating to ourselves and others keep us in survival mode -- leaves folded and flower not fully in bloom.

We hear so often the medicine is compassion, to turn towards ourselves with curiosity and loving kindness. But how do we grow a practice of loving kindness towards self, to decrease feelings of overwhelm, to soften, and to heal from these old patterns and wounds? How do we move out of surviving into thriving -- to flourish and bloom? Cultivating an Experiential IFS practice will teach you. This practice will help you to heal the protective parts that keep you stuck. You will learn how to have an embodied relationship with your feelings. How to put your loving arms around yourself and relate to all parts of yourself with a loving soothing kindness. Experiential IFS will decrease feelings of overwhelm and increase compassion for yourself and others. It will deepen your capacity for intimacy with self and others, moving you into more aligned relationships, greater life purpose, pleasure, joy and flow.