IFS & Neurodiversity
Welcome! This space is dedicated to exploring Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy through the lens of neurodiversity. Writings about how IFS can support and celebrate unique ways of thinking and feeling, and honour the complexity of our inner worlds.
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The Parts Who Really Hate Toothbrushes (opens the original)
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I have been thinking recently about cleaning my teeth. Not, admittedly, one of the more profound places I expected writing about IFS therapy to take me. But it turns out there are quite a lot of parts involved in whether or not I clean my teeth, and some of them really hate toothbrushes.For years I mostly understood this as something I was really bad at. I knew I should clean my teeth twice a day. And I know all the sensible reasons why and I know it was not a particularly complicated task. And
What Are We Protecting? An IFS Look at the Polarised ADHD Debate (opens the original)
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I watched The Great ADHD Myth? last week and have found myself thinking about it, and perhaps even more about the conversations surrounding it, ever since. I had problems with the programme, but not because I think ADHD should somehow be protected from scrutiny. I think we need to be able to ask difficult questions about diagnosis, medication, neuroscience, increasing rates of diagnosis, social media and the influence of environment and culture. I want to understand the evidence, including the b
Companion Worksheet: Borrowed Words, Scripts, Echolalia and Internal Family Systems Therapy (opens the original)
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How to use this sheetThank you for being a paid subscriber. I do really appreciate your support to be able to keep writing for everyone.This worksheet is an additional resource created to sit alongside the article “Borrowed Words: Scripts, Echolalia and Internal Family Systems Therapy.”Read it hereMy worksheets are a way to slow the ideas down and bring them into your own experience. Rather than adding more theory, this worksheet invites gentle re
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