I've been facilitating practice groups for IFS-trained therapists for years. And there's a particular kind of moment that keeps showing up — where the therapist is technically doing everything right, and the session still isn't landing the way they hoped. It usually isn'
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Protectors aren't blocking. They're narrating. They're the system's historian — carrying the story of what it cost, and running policy off of it ever since. When you can meet them there, something shifts.