The Parts Party

The Parts Party

Do you resonate with the idea of being a system of many different parts or subpersonalities that have different hopes and agendas for you, rather than feeling like one fixed personality? And perhaps you know deep down that your deepest authentic Self is already healed and whole, even if it most days it doesn’t really feel like that? Same! This is the understanding of the Internal Family Systems model — created by Richard Schwartz. This podcast is a celebration of what it is like to live as a system of parts, learning to be more Self Led. We welcome all your parts to this ’Parts Party’ with Adriana and Ella, therapists and IFS enthusiasts, as they discuss the lived experience of the Internal Family Systems. This podcast is not affiliated with IFS Institute. To learn more about IFS go to: Mind Beyond in Australia: https://www.mindbeyond.com.au International: https://www.ifs-institute.com About Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/ About Ella: https://ellashannon.com/

Episodes

July 15, 2025 16 mins

Life will always have moments that are upsetting and distressing. In these moments, parts of us get activated, and try to do their best to help us cope. They buzz with anxiety, they try to fix, they focus on others or they find ways to numb us out. This meditation might be helpful in moments where you feel blended or taken over by a part. We hope you find it supportive. 

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Martin Toré is the creator of IFS Buddy, an AI tool for Internal Family Systems self-therapy that gained traction overnight and now helps thousands of people worldwide, has been showcased at major healthcare conferences, and universities are reaching out to include it in their research.

Martin was previously a physiotherapist, and he talks about how working with people living with chronic pain led him to learn about trauma and the ...

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An Internal Family Systems Meditation to know and connect with parts, shared by Rebecca O'Calloghan.

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Rebecca O'Callaghan is a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist based in Ireland. She shares her journey of understanding herself as a system of parts; from being a child who was conflicted with knowing she was both a 'good girl' and a 'bad girl', to studying Gestalt Therapy and being particularly drawn to the chair work and working with parts through this model. Rebecca discusses flow states and her deepening experiences of S...

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This meditation is a lovely taster of the many beautiful meditations and experiential exercises in Laura's book 'Awakening to Love'

Laura Patryas, PhD, is a psycho-spiritual counsellor and IFS practitioner. She utilizes the latest scientific insights alongside embodied nonduality, offering a unique and universal path to healing. With over 20 years of research and personal exploration, Laura brings a deeply transformative perspectiv...

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Laura is a spiritual teacher and IFS therapist, as well as a researcher and author with a PhD in psychophysics. She first encountered IFS ten years ago—by accident—when she mistakenly signed up for what she thought was a Family Constellations workshop. Instead, it turned out to be an IFS Constellations workshop, which helped her to powerfully connect with her grieving and anxious parts.

In this episode of the Parts Party, Laura sha...

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This is an IFS meditation to get to know bodily pain or symptoms that have no structural cause. It is based on somatic tracking, a tool in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) that helps us observe pain and symptoms from a place of safety. IFS helps us get to this calm, compassionate place by taking care of the parts that are naturally worried about the pain. We then listen to the sensation and see what it is trying to teach us.

To lear...

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May 15, 2025 49 mins

Manya Ronay is a Certified Level 3 IFS Practitioner and Certified Health Education Specialist. Originally from the USA and living in Israel, Manya shares openly about how her inner system has adapted to living in war time. We discuss parts that come up around eating and food, how time with family activates our parts and how chronic illness can show up with a message to slow down when manager parts really take over. Another beautifu...

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April 27, 2025 41 mins

Amitayus Syzygy is an IFS Therapist from Phoenix, Arizona. He joins this episode of the parts party, sharing early experiences of loss, how thousands of hours of spiritual practices brought beautiful insights and experiences but ultimately did not change deep seated patterns in his relationships and how through Internal Family Systems he learnt to look after his own inner children, rather than hoping his partner could be responsibl...

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A 15min meditation to connect and hear from different parts, using a visualisation of parts around a campfire of Self Energy, based on the principles of Internal Family Systems model of therapy created by Richard Schwartz.

More info: 

IFS Australia: https://mindbeyond.com.au/

IFS Institute: https://ifs-institute.com/

Ella: https://ellashannon.com/

Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/

 

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April 18, 2025 39 mins

Dean Hilton joins us this episode, sharing about the deep integration of 'being parts and Self' in his life, and patterns of ruminating / looping thought and how he has worked with this through Internal Family Systems . He is an IFS therapist from Melbourne, who has spent his life integrating the healing meditation and body practises of Eastern traditions with evidence-based modalities to provide a holistic approach to healing.

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A lovely guided exercise for connecting with what the Internal Family Systems calls your Self Energy. Led by IFS therapist Argnesh Rose.

More about Argnesh: https://argnesh-rose.yolasite.com/

More about Internal Family Systems: https://ifs-institute.com/ 

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April 10, 2025 38 mins

In our first guest episode, our guest Arghesh Rose shares with generosity about her own parts and her journey of understanding herself as neurodiverse. She shares the gift of connection as a way that she gets in touch with Self Energy. 

More about Argnesh here: https://argneshrose.yolasite.com/

More about IFS: https://ifs-institute.com/

More about Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/

More about Ella: https://ellashannon...

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A meditation to connect with your Self Energy, through the 8C's: Courage, Creativity, Confidence, Compassion, Clarity, Curiosity, Connectedness and Calm.

From the Principles of Internal Family Systems, written and read by Adriana Narai.

Learn about IFS in Australia: www.mindbeyond.com.au

International: www.ifs-institute.com/ 

More about Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/

More about Ella: https://ellashannon.com/ 

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January 31, 2025 41 mins

Adriana and Ella present the pilot episode, exploring the lived experience of the Internal Family Systems in our own lives, as well as our experiences as IFS therapists. This episode presents the type of questions we will be asking our wonderful guests in future episodes. With Ella @EvolutionofIntimacy and Adriana @adriana_draws_therapy

Learn about IFS in Australia: www.mindbeyond.com.au

International: www.ifs-institute.com/ 

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A ten minute explanation of this model of understanding humans as a multiple system of parts and Self. Explained by Adriana Narai @adriana_ draws_therapy

 

Learn about IFS in Australia: www.mindbeyond.com.au

International: www.ifs-institute.com/ 

More about Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/

More about Ella: https://ellashannon.com/ 

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A ten minute explanation of this model of understanding humans as a multiple system of parts and Self. Explained by Ella Shannon @EvolutionofIntimacy

Learn about IFS in Australia: www.mindbeyond.com.au

International: www.ifs-institute.com/ 

More about Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/

More about Ella: https://ellashannon.com/ 

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