Hello! Let's get started. Here are a few terms and resources to make use of this blog. This blog focuses on PARTS from various theories: IFS, Polyvagal, Structural Dissociation, etc.
- Internal Family Systems:
- Self Energy: this is your core self that you access when calm and connected (Flexible Mind)
- Anxious Protectors: this is your Manager Fix Protector (Fixed Mind)
- Avoidant Protectors: this is your Fire Fighter Freeze Protector (Fatalistic Mind)
- Wounded Child: this is your Exiled Trauma Memories
- Workbook: Internal Family Systems Self Therapy by Weiss
- Polyvagal Theory:
- Ventral Vagal: is when we can co-regulate and self regulate
- Sympathetic Nervous System: this is where we get activated and in Fight or Flight
- Dorsal Vagal: this is when we shut down into Fold or Faint