I wrote this for a few clients who I had introduced the Internal Family Systems (IFS) or "parts work" model to.  We had started to name parts and I was supporting them to go inside and pay attention to parts.  And they just were not convinced that this would be helpful...

This blog is intended to draw on some of Miriam Greenspan’s wisdom, to shed light on a very dark emotion and to provide some trail markers to help readers on their own journeys.

In Healing Through the Dark Emotions, Miriam Greenspan describes despair in many ways.

Despa...

So, I succeeded in reading Miriam Greenspan’s Healing Through the Dark Emotions, but the homework I’d set myself - to really follow the “Seven Steps of Emotional Alchemy” (in the midst of a busy summer vacation) - was easier said than done.  Don’t despair (hee, hee)…I...

My rest-of-the-summer reading will be to finish Miriam Greenspan’s “Healing Through the Dark Emotions:  the Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair” www.miriamgreenspan.com.   When I first heard the title of Greenspan’s book mentioned on the Trauma Therapist Podcast ww...