Free and low-cost support for exploring your inner world
You don’t need a lot of money, or any at all, to get some help navigating your internal community or learning more about human multiplicity. Here are some resources to try.
As a completely non-clinical IFS-trained coach, my work is gloriously free from the institutional strictures of the American healthcare system — its pathologizing insistence on expert diagnosis and symptom-focused treatment, its phobic terror of litigation, its abusive financial incentives. But this healing freedom comes at the price of accessibility: unlike a clinical practitioner, I can’t take health insurance, which makes one-on-one coaching with me too expensive for most people. Fortunately, generous partswork enthusiasts from around the world have developed brilliant low-cost and completely free ways to get support. Here are just a few:
- IFS Peers is “a community-led, IFS-based peer support organisation offering online meetings focused on healing from addiction and trauma.” They offer virtual meetings several times a week and have support spaces on Facebook and WhatsApp, all free to participate in.
- Free(ing) IFS is a private Facebook group, maintained by my friend and colleague Siobhan Bale, where IFS practitioners can share free, donation-based, or low-cost resources and training.
- The Integral Guide to Wellbeing is an encyclopedic open wiki that synthesizes all the learning that helped a partsworker named Levi heal from trauma using IFS many other modalities. It’s a remarkable resource, free to everyone.
- Meditations on Insight Timer are completely free to listen to, and the link will take you to some of my favorite partswork-friendly ones.
