Inner Work for Creatives: How to Organise Your Unconscious Mind with Internal Family Systems Therapy

Creative people are complex... and their Inner Work is complex too. This video helps Gifted & Creative people organise their Unconscious Mind & resolve their internal chaotic tensions with parts work therapy and the IFS model. This episode of Inner Work Essentials introduces and discusses the application of Richard Schwartz and his Internal Family Systems model of trauma therapy for creative individuals. IFS theory is expansive, and has practical application for holistic self-healing for anybody looking to heal unresolved childhood trauma - it's perhaps the best 'parts work therapy' out there - which makes IFS particularly useful for creatives. Book Recommendation: Internal Family Systems Therapy, second edition, Richard Schwartz Questions? Feel free to message me on Instagram! ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ⏱️ 00:00 Your Choice: Starving Artist or Commercial Sellout? 01:50 How to Identify & Resolve Creative Inner Conflicts 03:00 Book Recommendation: Internal Family Systems Therapy 03:48 Psychology of Creative Identity Evolution (Parts Work Perspective) 05:24 Creative Cowardice, Grandiosity & Visibility 07:00 Artistic Fantasy vs Artistic Reality? 08:24 Creative Maturity: How to Integrate Your Unconscious 10:26 Examples of My Poetry & Creative Process 11:30 Shadow Work & Wasted Potential 15:45 Next Steps: Embracing the Inner Critic /// Welcome to INNER WORK ESSENTIALS: the 52 episode series designed to provide you with an intense, diverse and holistic roadmap for full-spectrum self-healing and transformative self-education! It's been a long time coming... with over 350 books researched in the last 27 months... but I'm overjoyed to FINALLY be sharing what I've learned about the Inner Working Landscape and how to do Inner Work at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Want to know where this series is heading? Read my teaching intentions below! INNER WORK ESSENTIALS: SERIES AIMS (STATEMENT OF DIRECTION) 1) Provide the student with an informed and representative overview of multiple complementary therapeutic modalities to support their self-healing process; with special encouragement placed upon the auto-therapeutic application of particular healing modalities for particular problems at particular stages in their journey. 2) Nourish the intellectual and spiritual maturation of the student by familiarising them with the most exciting, challenging and credible concepts in developmental psychology, consciousness studies and transpersonal metaphysics; with central emphasis being placed upon comparative analysis of multiple complex theories. 3) Encourage an empowered and more authentic sense of individual self-expression as a combined outcome of the two previous intentions, plus the application of holistic lifestyle principles, self-educational practises, and foundational healthy habits. INNER WORK ESSENTIALS: EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES On completion of this series, the student should expect to be: 1) Auto-therapeutic. The student will feel generally competent in their ability to select and self-administer the most suitable therapeutic modality on a full-spectrum basis: ranging from the somatic resolution of central childhood wounds to the everyday self-regulation of symptomatic stress responses such as anxiety and addiction. 2) Closer towards baseline integral consciousness (Wilber). Through their combined efforts of rigorous self-inquiry and critical engagement with recommended reading material, the student will have significantly developed their intellectual and spiritual maturity to a noticeable degree, in likely correlation with their depth of engagement. 3) Holistically Empowered. The student will enjoy a meaningful expansion of their physical, emotional, sexual, and creative expression as a result of their healing and expansion work. In short, they will be healthier, happier and feel more complete. 4) Self-educational. The student will have felt organically inspired to move beyond free video content and create a self-structured learning arc which takes maximum advantage of at least several dozen inner working books mentioned within the course. The student will consequently enjoy lifelong learning habits including: critical research skills, long-term focus, and the ability to know when to stop studying. /// Topics Discussed: how to heal from trauma; inner work; inner work essentials; internal family systems therapy; richard schwartz; no bad parts; ifs therapy; ifs; ifs therapy demonstration; exiles, firefighters, managers; internal family systems explained; parts work; how to do parts work; parts work demonstration; parts work example; parts work exercise; unconscious mind; creative psychology; psychology of creativity; parts work creativity; unconscious integration; how to integrate your unconscious mind; inner work for creatives; /// 📸 - Follow me on Instagram:   / thorntontheory   DM me for 1:1 consultations & private mentoring. #innerwork #jung #shadowwork