Internal Family Systems As a Proven Treatment for Burnout with Katie LaCelle

As we’ve discussed in past episodes, burnout is all too common, and that is all the more reason to focus podcast content on healing. It’s time to explore another tool from our personalized productivity toolbox–Internal Family Systems (IFS)–an evidence-based approach to tackling burnout as well as other chronic conditions. This week, episode 182 of the Positively Living Podcast is about using Internal Family Systems as a proven treatment for burnout

Katie LaCelle is a somatic IFS practitioner who is passionate about helping people uncover their own internal wise leaders and reconnect with their deepest embodied intuition. IFS, or internal family systems, is a trauma-informed therapy modality that can help you get present, rewire your brain, and regulate your nervous system. In her spare time, Katie coaches others to and performs herself on the flying trapeze.

In this episode of the Positively Living Podcast, Katie helps us understand IFS and how this trauma-informed therapy model can help you get present, regulate your nervous system, and even rewire your brain. 

Katie and I cover the following topics:

• The burdens we pick up along the course of our lives to make us feel safe. 
• Understanding the parts within us and the roles they play. 
• The 8 C’s of softening and reintegrating back to yourself.
• Getting to the underlying problems to recover from burnout and avoid it altogether.
• The first step to bringing more curiosity to your system.

If you’re a DIY dynamo looking for simplicity and productivity support, you’ll find it in the Positively Productive Resources Vault. It’s packed with the worksheets, checklists, workbooks, and recordings I use with clients. Go to http://www.positivelyproductive.com/podcastvault where the promo code PODCAST will give you a special listener discount.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Internal Family Systems As a Proven Treatment for Burnout with Katie LaCelle
• 4:29 The importance of getting to know the parts within us, developing trust with them, and finding new roles and ways of being to avoid survival energy and burnout.
• 9:25 The parts within us can be activated in response to triggers, such as feedback or stress, and can use various strategies to avoid feeling vulnerable emotions, including addiction or ranting.
• 16:08 Inner child healing through IFS therapy.
• 21:02 Healing trauma through self-curiosity and self-compassion.