Ever notice the duality within—one part moving you forward, another pulling you back? Parts work, also known as IFS therapy, turns this inner tension into an opportunity for real change. Learn how embracing your duality leads to self leadership and lasting healing.

IFS vs Traditional Talk Therapy: Why Parts Work Goes Deeper
Tired of talk therapy that helps you understand your patterns—but not change them? In this post, Bethany Russell, MA, LPC, breaks down how Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy goes beyond coping strategies to heal the parts of you that traditional therapy often overlooks. Learn why your anxious, people-pleasing, or shutdown responses aren’t flaws—they’re protectors. And discover why working with your internal system creates lasting transformation.

I'm going to tell you something that might sting a little.

If you're someone who says yes when you mean no, who agrees to keep the peace, who shape-shifts depending on who you're with—people can sense it. And on some level, they don't trust you.

Not because you're a bad person. But because they can feel that you're not being real with them.

Your fawn response might be keeping you safe, but it's also keeping people at arm's length.

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