Self-Therapy: Transform Stuck Parts of Yourself into Inner Resources of Strength, Love, and Freedom

by Jay Earley

The foundation of psychotherapy is dialogue between the therapist and patient but can you have an effective healing dialogue with yourself? Because our minds are actually a home to many sub-personalities, Dr. Jay Earley explains, we have the ability to heal ourselves by engaging directly with the many aspects of our psyche. With Self-Therapy, Dr. Earley offers a complete audio training course in a revolutionary therapy called Internal Family Systems (IFS), a powerful psychological tool for finding freedom from chronic emotional issues, relieving such conditions as depression and anxiety, and accessing the true Self that is the source of all healing.

Genres: Self Help

Audio CD

First published October 1, 2013

About the author

Jay Earley, Ph.D., is a transformational psychologist, group leader, psychotherapist, coach, author, teacher, and theorist.

Jay is trained in Internal Family Systems Therapy and assists with professional trainings in IFS. He leads IFS Classes for the general public which teach IFS as a practice for self-help and peer counseling. He is active in the IFS community and has presented a number of workshops at IFS annual conferences. He also teaches classes on Communication from the Heart, based on IFS, interactive groups, and the Pattern System.

He is nationally known for his innovation in the group psychotherapy field. His book, Interactive Group Therapy: Integrating Interpersonal, Action-Oriented, and Psychodynamic Approaches, Brunner/Mazel, describes his group therapy method in which people learn interpersonal relationship skills by working directly on their relationships with each other. During his ten years on the east coast, Jay was Director of the Group Therapy Center of Long Island, where he trained group therapists in this method. He has written a number of articles on interactive groups and made numerous presentations at regional and national psychotherapy conferences. He continues to lead interactive therapy groups in the Bay Area.

Jay offers Life Purpose Coaching and Change Agent Coaching, on finding your life purpose and making a difference in the world. He has been writing about and leading workshops on Life Purpose since 1984. He has collected his writings on life purpose into an ebook Finding Your Life Purpose.

Jay has created the Pattern System, a method for understanding interpersonal behavior and its underlying psychological issues, which is compatible with IFS. It is used for personal growth, understanding relationships, and interpersonal assessment and treatment in psychotherapy.

In Jay's work with people, he is known for his empathy and his ability to understand a client's feelings, issues, and world view without imposing his own personality or agenda. His insight into human motivation and psychological patterns enables him to help people understand both their strengths and how they block themselves from getting what they want. Because of his own life-long journey of personal growth, his interest in the nature of human consciousness, and his success in creating a passionate and satisfying life for himself, his clients trust him to understand their struggles and spiritual longings, and to support their search for excitement and meaning in life.

Jay has a Ph.D. in psychology from Saybrook Graduate School and is a graduate of the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco. He is a licensed psychologist in California (PSY6973) and a Certified Group Therapist. He has been in private practice as a psychotherapist working with individuals, couples, and groups since 1973.

Jay's commitment to his own personal development has led him to participate in a wide variety of therapeutic and growth endeavors over the years. He has a loving, successful 20 year marriage and professional partnership with Bonnie Weiss. He has studied with Richard Olney, Jean Houston, Joanna Macy, and Richard Schwartz. He is a long-time student of the Diamond Approach of A. H. Almaas, a spiritual path that integrates psychotherapy insights and techniques with wisdom traditions in a unique Western approach to spiritual realization.

As a result of his research on human social evolution and its relationship to our current global predicament, Jay has published a number of articles plus the book, Transforming Human Culture: Social Evolution and the Planetary Crisis, SUNY Press.

During the 1980's, Jay studied with both Jean Houston and Joanna Macy. He was active in the peace movement as a member of Interhelp and Psychotherapists for Social Responsibility, where he led workshops which integrated psychological, spiritual, and planetary concerns. Study of the process by which people discover and actualize their life purpose led Jay to wri

Reviews

[Morgan Blackledge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a psychotherapy model founded by Richard C. Schwartz.

The basic premise is, that people are not psychologically unitary, but rather are made up of various psychological parts.

And sometimes those parts can be in conflict.

And that can super suck!

Everyone has experienced internal conflict, whereby part of you wants one thing, and another part of you wants another, or your “heart” tells you to do one thing, and your “head” tells you to do something else, and you can’t decide.

This type of inner conflict can be the source of massive suffering, relational problems, procrastination, and all other manner of psychological unpleasantries.

These types of inner “dynamics” are what IFS explores in detail.

And it can be very powerful, very transformative work.

One of the cool features of IFS is that you can do a lot of it on your own (without a therapist).

This audio program (simply put) tells you how to do that.

And it’s REALLY powerful and REALLY good.

I’m a therapist.

And as such, I feel compelled to say that no self guided therapeutic work can replace working with a qualified and trusted therapist.

That being said.

I worked through all the exercises in this program, and WOW.

WOW!!!

Very profound experience.

Highly recommended.

I LOVED it 😍

[Alice · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a set of lectures and meditation practices with Internal family systems theory. Good material, but the audio wasn’t great. Too quiet, but when the volume was tuned up, the S’s especially, grated on the ears.

[Lynn]

A yoga-esque form of sorting out 'parts' of your mind...the exile, protector, concerned parts, inner critic/underminer, inner champion (replacement ideal supportive parent), etc., and having the parts talk to each other gently and compassionately, with the goal of peaceful reintegration. Not sure how a person could really do it alone without a therapist's help. I listened to the Audible version, so it was kind of like having a therapist. Some excellent perceptions and insights into possible fragmented pieces of our inner selves and how they may be in conflict. Personally, as a christian, it would have been much more effective for me if faith elements had been included. I am now using 'Switch On Your Brain' by Dr. Caroline Leaf and her 21-day brain detox, which is a christian program. This is already helping remarkably only two days into the program.

[Teo · Rating 3 out of 5]

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