ifs therapy art
integrating parts with creativity
After an IFS session, I invite you to journal or draw to express your inner experiences. Take a blank sheet of paper to draw the inner you communicated with. It can be scribbles, words or colours. It’s about expressing your internal experience so you can see it from a different perspective.
It’s not about creating high art, though it may be when creativity flows through the hands of an artist. See here the drawings my client Adele shared after a series of sessions.
‘Judgment and anxiety fucking with expression and identity’
Was the first drawing’s title. Her anxious part showed up and explained that she feared Adele would embarrass herself and would not be taken seriously.
It works together with the judgment part who wants to defend her from ridicule. They block her intuition, suppress her creativity and berate her: Why do you always have to choose the difficult path?
About her first IFS session Adele says: “I didn’t expect to be quite so profound. I really felt a shift after just one session and so I’m curious to explore what further sessions could do.”
Releasing a thought form and legacy burden
Did you know a former partner, parent or any close connection can leave an energy imprint on you? This is called a thought form, see the ‘squid’ and ‘cords’ image that Adele drew after we released this energy. It was keeping her small and doubting herself and her intuition.
In IFS in general we assume there are No Bad Parts as explained in the book. But there are a few exceptions, and the red flag is when the parts is not beneficial. This can be assessed by a series of questions, including asking the client if they feel this energy is part of them.
Its there for survival - I know that its keeping me small - that was the only space I was allowed in that relationship
Job - Nothing positive - safety and fear thing
Thought form - I am a cancer - its job is to keep me separate - isolated - survival
It just is - a necessity -
Flame on a candle - snuffing out the light that is coming through
19 - adele will be free - loss of control
This thoughtform was tripping her up and making her constantly question herself as she did in a relationship with an ex-partner.
It was connected to an ex-partner
drew after we cleared this energy.
Part in the head - 2012 - squid
It’s not trusting - manifested in a relationship David (gaslighting - doubt my intuition)
Second guessing - undermining - what if your wrong?
Hard to tell - if part of her system.
I am keeping you safe
I am keeping you small - its tripping you up
One energy that has two faces - constantly questioning -
its societal conditioning - relationship dynamics made it more powerful initially.
You would be to powerful - electrical shocks
This ‘squid’
Its there for survival - I know that its keeping me small - that was the only space I was allowed in that relationship
Job - Nothing positive - safety and fear thing
Thought form - I am a cancer - its job is to keep me separate - isolated - survival
It just is - a necessity -
Flame on a candle - snuffing out the light that is coming through
19 - adele will be free - loss of control
Falling of a scab - crusty -
Released a thought form - with light
Session 2 24.5.23 - removed thought form and legacy burden?
I think!
Part
My first serious boyfriend - Paul - joy thief - growth or cyst
Contradicting - it - I ask the brain to withdraw -
Its there for survival - I know that its keeping me small - that was the only space I was allowed in that relationship
Job - Nothing positive - safety and fear thing
Thought form - I am a cancer - its job is to keep me separate - isolated - survival
It just is - a necessity -
Flame on a candle - snuffing out the light that is coming through
19 - adele will be free - loss of control
Falling of a scab - crusty -
Released a thought form - with light
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Hole in chest - grandad passing when you were 7 - sadness
Deeply afraid of loss ’89 - 7
Conflict messages - here to make me grateful + fear of loss
Part of fabric -two or 3 that patched on to it .
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Part in the head - 2012 - squid
It’s not trusting - manifested in a relationship David (gaslighting - doubt my intuition)
Second guessing - undermining - what if your wrong?
Hard to tell - if part of her system.
I am keeping you safe
I am keeping you small - its tripping you up
One energy that has two faces - constantly questioning -
its societal conditioning - relationship dynamics made it more powerful initially.
You would be to powerful - electrical shocks
Murphy family - warrior energy
