Honoring and welcoming Self-Like Parts, with Paul Neustadt

About this episode

The episode features Paul Neustadt discussing the qualities of Self-like parts and how to honor and validate them.

Our guest is Paul Neustadt,   a clinical social worker and IFS Senior Co-lead Trainer. Paul has worked in community mental health and the counseling program of a working-class state university as well as having been the director of a community-based counseling and prevention program. Paul sees himself as a spiritual being in a human body, on a healing journey, in this life to learn lessons, to connect with his soul, and to live in accordance with his life purpose. Part of his life purpose has been to share the gift of IFS with others. In this episode, we discuss the qualities and virtues of Self-like parts, and how to welcome, honor, and genuinely validate them in a non-shaming way that allows more Self energy to emerge.

People in this episode

Hosts: Aníbal Henriques, Tisha Shull, Alexia Rothman

Guest: Paul Neustadt

Topics covered

• Self-like parts
• IFS
• mental health
• spirituality
• validation
• healing journey

Keywords

• IFS
• Self-like parts
• mental health
• validation
• spiritual journey
• healing
• counseling

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