#86 - John Clarke (Part 3) - Dealing with Anxiety in IFS (Internal Family Systems)

Welcome to the third and - for now - last segment with John Clarke, a passionate and dedicated IFS teacher and podcast host (Going Inside). In this episode, we explore the theme of anxiety through the lens of working with parts and Self. While this concludes the planned little series on IFS, I’m hopeful that John Clarke will come back for more IFS insights sometime in the future. NOW for this this episode, we discuss: - Threat Response in the nervous system - Downward Arrow Technique (used in several therapies, NARM included) to really located the core fear/belief - How parts hold and express anxiety and fear and the practise of being okay without knowing - Is anxiety a part? (We who have seen "Inside out 2" kind of think it might be this orange part??) - Fear of being taken advantage of - What happens when a part has no translatable message when interviewed (by yourself or in a therapy session) - The importance of starting the process by working with protectors - Understanding the inner critic as a protective response - Repressed anger and its impact - Fear / Anger that don’t need to be acted out - Expressing emotions from multiple parts to acknowledge yourself, without focusing on the responses from other people - In therapy session - how do we work with unfinished business, in the active imagination - Collective anxiety and the importance of validating the difficulty of not knowing what the future holds - BEING WITH (as oppose to doing something - And two points in the end: From John about feeling fear and doing it anyway as one way of healing the anxiety - and from Mannah just the sense that it holds spiritual importance to overcome fear and anxiety and enter into peace of mind Happy you are with us - I think we need this if we want to overcome anxiety, to speak openly about it, try and understand it to transform it & liberate from it. LINKS: Find more on John Clarke: https://www.johnclarketherapy.com/ Going Inside Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-inside-healing-trauma-from-the-inside-out/id1728733093 My website: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/ Hey if you want to the video versions, they reside here: https://www.youtube.com/@therapeuticastrology