akemi’s Reviews > Trauma and Dissociation Informed Internal Family Systems: How to Successfully Treat C-PTSD, and Dissociative Disorders > Status Update

Mad respect for this therapist. There's a section where she straight up says some of us will never heal fully, our lives are too chaotic, fragile, disabled. It's a tiny paragraph, but absolutely fucking affirming to those failed by this world. She ends with but we gotta keep trying anyway. It's both really grounded and sweet.

Really fucking glad this book pushes against the IFS dogma that there is a capable self in all of us just waiting to self-heal dysfunction. This simply isn't true for trauma victims, who have not been taught how to regulate arousal, self-soothe, process emotions, articulate attachment wounds, mentalise other minds. We all have the capacity to develop a self, but it's something mutually constructed through the other.