Sometimes it's hard to believe in hope, because there may be parts of ourselves that protect us from the anticipated pain of allowing hope and then being let down. When the world and people disappoint us, it's natural for these parts to develop such roles. To simply force hope or positive thinking may not work with them.

We can, however, learn to compassionately listen to the deeper story behind our skeptic parts, our doubtful parts, our worried parts, or any parts inside of us that are afraid to let us believe in a better life and better future. We can get to know these parts, understand what it is inside of us that they are protecting, and make internal agreements with ourselves to care for those wounded parts in ways where the outside world doesn't have to be so dangerous, because we are caring for ourselves rather than expecting others to do it for us.

We can then begin to invite hope into our lives, because we are connected to our true Self, who is connected to a greater Spirit and Higher Power, which can never be damaged, taken away, and is always present to offer us love, acceptance, and even hope.

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Spiritual connection is what ultimately allows us to not only move beyond our trauma, but witness, heal and integrate the parts of ourselves that were wounded when the trauma occured. When we open space for Self to be present, magic happens and life within and without can begin to transform.

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In this episode we discuss how to identify and release contraints in our system. As human beings, our systems naturally flow towards creativity and connection. We are innately resourced internally to experience these things. IFS is a process of releasing contraints, both internally and externally in our lives, in order to allow our systems to move towards their natural state of being.

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