Love your Firefighters! - with Mary Kate Sowell and Beth Piazza-Bonin

What's a Firefighter Part? In the language of Internal Family Systems, Firefighters are one of the 3 major categories of "Parts" that typically exist in a human system. They are protectors that are reactive, defensive, volatile, big energy, and often the ones that get us into trouble. Typical firefighters include the parts that drink too much, smoke too much, act out sexually, over or under eat, numb out and dissociate, rage, lie, and even self-harm. Society's typical response to a Firefighter's action is to penalize and hate them. Similarly, individual people tend to be very antagonistic toward their firefighters. But is this how to heal them? Is the key to sobriety, to spiritual growth, to healing, to greater intimacy to hate one's own brokenness? Or is it rather to see Truth and Light and Beauty, and then regard all of one's parts...with love? Moses-Rhys teams up with Beth Piazza-Bonin and Mary-Kate Sowell, fellow colleagues, IFS practitioners, and spiritual pilgrims, to explore a radical healing approach, which may remind us of one Father eagerly running out to meet His returning Prodigal Son. We explore how to make these typically destructive forces in our lives to be something profitable. We talk about the compassionate move toward a firefighter, as well as the courageous boundaries we set around them. We reflected on the inner conflicts that arise when Managers and Firefighters hate on each other, and how these conflicts can be made worse by religion. Here we talk about the difference between a rigid spiritualizer part, and the very strong, very compassionate, healing presence of the Lord Jesus that we can know in our real lives. We talk about how counseling, healing, and the IFS world allows us to journey across the gap between me and you, self and the Other, to truly encounter, know, and love another person. The Outer Circle Inner Stillness is made possible by support from listeners, patrons, likes, and shares. To learn more about how to support the podcast, visit www.patreon.com/outercircle. Rhys Pasimio can be found through www.patreon.com/outercircle and on instagram at @newpattrencounseling and through New Pattern Counseling at www.newpatterncounseling.com, and is always happy to dialogue with listeners bringing honest questions! Mary Kate Sowell can be found through Abundant Life Counseling in Austin, Texas - https://abundantlifecounseling.com/mary-kate Beth Piazza-Bonin can be found through Path of the Hummingbird - https://www.pathofthehummingbird.org/ Please do reach out! We’d love to hear from you! #internalfamilysystems #ifs #parts #nobadparts #managers #firefighters #exiles #self #selfenergy #counseling #therapy #mentalhealth #addiction #substanceuse #recovery #sobriety #spirituality #orthodox #easternorthodoxy #orthodoxchristianity #christianity #jesus #bible #relationships #couples #intimacy