Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) within life coaching creates a powerful blend that addresses both the mental and emotional aspects of personal growth. Here’s how this approach can benefit individuals:

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• IFS coaching is great for everyone and can support you with all aspects of your life, whether it's finances, creativity, relationships, or projects you’re struggling to complete. It can even help with the spiritual aspects of things. Perhaps you want to work on your intuition, but find that you’re blocked, or you don’t know what your life purpose is. IFS coaching can support you with these things, too!

•  Internal Family Systems Coaching can help you explore your inner parts and emotional landscapes and help you to better understand your underlying motivations, fears, and desires. This emotional awareness is crucial for meaningful changes. When IFS is combined with coaching, it can help you translate these insights into specific, actionable goals, which can make it easier to implement change in your lives.

• IFS is self therapy. You can learn to recognize and dialogue with your parts, which will lead to a deeper understanding of what drives your behaviors and choices. With this self-knowledge, you can set goals that align with your true values and needs, rather than external expectations or fears.

• IFS encourages compassion towards all parts of yourself, including those that may feel critical or defensive. This self-acceptance can enhance confidence and motivation in pursuing goals. Understanding the roles of critical or fearful parts can help you address self-sabotaging behaviors, making it easier to stay committed to your objectives and heal on an even deeper level.

• IFS can help you learn to identify what triggers your emotional responses, which makes it easier to respond more effectively rather than react impulsively. With the support of an IFS coach, you can create practical strategies to manage and heal difficult emotions that may be keeping you from your hopes and aspirations.

• When we choose to move toward our goals, we can have polarized parts that have conflicting needs and desires. We can often get stuck or frozen,  distracted, or exhibit self-defeating behavior. This happens because our parts don’t agree and one or more will step in and try to “help” by keeping us from success. They often don’t want us to suffer from disappointment or have different ideas based on past experiences that are no longer a part of our life. 

 If you’d like to use IFS to change your life and move closer to your goals, I’m here to help! If you’d like to know more or are ready to begin your journey, click the button below to book a discovery call. I look forward to hearing from you!