Status Updates From The Others Within Us: Inter...

Given that this subject matter is already potentially alienating, suffusing the text with sarcasm and defensiveness is not a good move. It's not extreme, but it is annoying. This might be exacerbated by the performance of the audiobook narrator. It's really one of my biggest turn offs with books. It just makes you look so immature and unprofessional. It makes you sound like a rando on the internet.

“In his sermons, [Martin Luther King Jr.] did not use philosophical language… but instead talked watch person’s ‘sombodyness.’ This idea of personhood is oddly powerful. Everyone deserves basic respect because they have their own ‘sombodyness,’ a basic dignity. Each person without exception is unique and of great value; no one is dispensable or interchangeable.”

“The more unconscious we are of any of this stuff, whether part or UB, complex or archetype [as in Jungian psychology], the more freedom it has and therefore the more ability to take us over.”

Even the forward of this book made me cry as it acknowledged the lived experiences of myself & some of my clients without universally dismissing them as psychosis. It is validating to see IFS leaders genuinely researching and exploring their clients' (often traumatic) experiences of unattached burdens/malicious entity attacks to find effective, data driven, clinically appropriate ways to help them heal. 😭