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Session 6.5: Kagetsu
So, I’ve found this one to be a difficult one to write for some reason. I was also very focused on my novel, so this little project fell by the wayside for far too long. I am hoping to get back into doing this more often and promoting it so people actually see it. What read more
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Session 6: Frustration Part 3
The week following Session 5, I remember it being a rather simple week where not much happened. There wasn’t anything to get frustrated about, so at that point, I wasn’t sure if I had truly made any progress with my frustrated part. I felt that I had, but I couldn’t say for certain. At the read more
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8 C’s and 5 P’s in Media: Nausicaä
For this post, I wanted to do something a little different. My parts pull me in different directions, and when I do the same thing constantly, I tend to get bored or pulled in a different direction. I feel committed to doing this blog and don’t want that to happen, so I’ve decided every five read more
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Session 5: Frustration Part 2
The week after Session 4, I struggled to focus on my work. I remember being pulled away from a from the novel I was working on at the time multiple times in addition to getting really frustrated with a game I was playing. The timeline means it was likely my blind run of maddening on read more
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Session 4: Frustration Part 1
The next week I didn’t struggle with fidgeting nearly as much. When I was in a work meeting and was speaking, my hands remained mostly still. It felt good to communicate without looking or feeling as awkward as I used to when speaking to someone who is just a work acquaintance. I remember feeling a read more
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Session 3: Stop Fidgeting Part 2
The week after I struggled with fidgeting, constantly starting and stopping fidgeting while at work during meetings. I felt self-conscious about it because at the time I was the youngest by a lot in the group I was working with so I worried they’d view me as childish for fidgeting at work. It was even read more
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Session 2: A Pushing Part
The next session started similarly to the previous session. Ryan asked me how I was feeling that week and I told him. I may have just said I was good or fine because I wasn’t totally comfortable with saying how I truly felt yet. But if I remember, that time was really difficult for me. read more
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Session 1: Stop Fidgeting
My first session was really just a lot of questions and info. Ryan (my therapist) mostly just asked me questions about myself and diagnosed me. He officially diagnosed me with minor depression based on the answers I gave, which only made me feel relieved that I knew what was going on, but also weird since read more
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Introduction to IFS
So, what is Internal Family Systems (IFS)? In short, it is a type of therapy that works with internal parts of our brains that make decisions and carry our trauma for us. Since our brains are extremely complex, humans evolved to develop parts capable of handling different tasks for us that allow us to multitask read more
My IFS Story 