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.

Self-sovereignty gets hijacked in six core ways: blended parts, survival-mode nervous systems, attachment wounds, ancestral trauma, emotional outsourcing, and soul-level patterns. This guide explores how these hijackers show up—and how to reclaim your power through IFS, somatic healing, and spiritual integration.

Self-sovereign: The lived capacity to lead from your authentic Self, even when trauma, emotional triggers, inherited burdens, or relational patterns arise. To be self-sovereign is to sit in the driver’s seat of your inner world—where your choices, boundaries, and responses are directed not by wounded parts or fear, but by clarity, compassion, and conscious intent. By Bethany Russell, LPC.