1812 || Internal Family Systems

In the therapy aspect you tend to work on learning to sit with each of the parts, hearing and respecting their roles, so you can better understand your own system and how to work alongside it. 

1. centered self: Compassionate, curious, calm, clear, courageous, confident, creative, connected. Present, patient, playful, persistent, and keeps perspective 
2. Exiles: wounded and carrying pain. Abandonment, fear, loneliness, shame, anxious, 
3. Protectors: firefighters and managers. Firefighters deal with immediate threats, Distract, avoid, dissociate, Mangers work to keep you from future problems. Hyper-vigilant, avoidant, 
4. The goal is to access the qualities of the Centered self to work with these wounded parts to 

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