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Make peace with the difficult parts of your personality.

Dr. Richard Schwartz is a contemporary psychotherapist, PhD in marriage and family therapy. He founded the Internal Family Systems Model (IFS) therapy system and has authored many books, most recently: The Internal Family Systems Workbook.

In this episode we talk about:

• What Internal Family Systems (IFS) is
• The relationship between buddhism and IFS
• How to make peace with our parts without a therapist in the room
• Dan volunteers as a guinea pig to show what it's like to work with your parts
• The definition of love
• The link between IFS and psychedelics

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