Natalie is so gentle here. I’ve been doing IFS (Internal Family Systems, a therapy that helps you see yourself as parts in a system rather than one person) in therapy for years now and this is the first time I’ve seen it used to help with racial & cultural trauma.

I also love how this book uses IFS to help understand and work with legacy burdens and intergenerational trauma. I truly started understanding how much was passed down to me that wasn’t “really” mine, as well as what traumas are mine, so to speak. There’s a lot of exercises and practices, but she asks you to break frequently.

A few I haven’t completed yet that I will be working towards, but I did the first half or so.

These can also be used to tackle traumas related to misogyny & such I feel like, I had a lot of those “personally” and was kind of hard to confront, but I will be continuing to explore & work through all of it