<p style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">In this episode, we explore the nature of grief through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS) with senior trainer <u>Einat Bronstein</u>. Drawing on the work of <u>Francis Weller</u> and other key grief theorists, we reflect on grief not as a problem to solve, but as a deeply human experience that calls for presence, witnessing, and integration.</p><p style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;min-height:15.0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">We discuss how cultural expectations and “collective burdens” shape the way grief is experienced, often leading to blocked or frozen processes. From an IFS perspective, grief is understood as a complex, non-linear experience carried by different parts of the internal system, particularly exiles.</p><p style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;min-height:15.0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The conversation explores topics like:</p><p style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;min-height:15.0px;">&nbsp;</p><ul style="list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">How IFS differs from stage-based and task-oriented models of grief - such as those of <u>Elisabeth Kübler-Ross</u>, <u>John Bowlby</u>, <u>J. William Worden</u>, and <u>Robert Neimeyer</u></li><li style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">What happens internally when we experience loss, and the roles of different parts in the grieving process</li><li style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Why grief may feel stuck, and how Self-led witnessing can allow transformation and healing</li><li style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The connection between present grief and earlier, unresolved losses</li><li style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The role of psychoeducation, ritual, and embodied expression in supporting grief</li><li style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">What it means to “integrate” a loss within the IFS framework</li></ul><p style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;min-height:15.0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">We also reflect on common pitfalls therapists may encounter when working with grief, and the deeper wisdom that can emerge from loss, about love, attachment, and the enduring presence of those we have lost.</p><p style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;min-height:15.0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">This episode is an invitation to approach grief with curiosity, compassion, and openness, honoring it as a doorway to connection, meaning, and inner transformation.</p><p style="font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">&nbsp;</p><hr><p class="Paragraph SCXW97470806 BCX4" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode:normal !important;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-user-select:text;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin:16px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;vertical-align:baseline;" paraid="1740661929" paraeid="{20b75e19-8f00-41a4-ab56-956feeb8a511}{116}"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-position:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">We are excited to celebrate the launch of <strong>IFS Collected Wisdom: Conversations with Experienced Voices in Internal Family Systems</strong> a book that brings together voices, reflections, and lived experience from across the IFS community. This book was created from a desire to honor those voices, and to acknowledge that wisdom in IFS doesn’t live in one place or one person. It lives in relationship, in experience, and in the field as it evolves. </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-position:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Thank you for being a listener, for being part of this community,&nbsp; and for continuing to explore what becomes possible when Self leads. We hope that IFS Collected Wisdom can become a companion in your IFS journey.</span><span class="EOP SCXW53310572 BCX4" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode:normal !important;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-user-select:text;color:rgb(53, 53, 53);font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20.85px;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:justify;text-decoration-line:none;text-decoration-style:solid;text-decoration-thickness:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;" data-ccp-props="{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559738&quot;:285,&quot;335559739&quot;:285}">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.sppc.org.pt/downloads/IFS_Collected_Wisdom_CONTENTS.pdf" target="_blank">Here is a link to the IFS Collected Wisdom book contents</a>.<span class="EOP SCXW97470806 BCX4" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode:normal !important;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-user-select:text;font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue_EmbeddedFont&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue_MSFontService&quot;, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:20.85px;margin:0px;padding:0px;" data-ccp-props="{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p>