The Upside of Bipolar: Conversations on the Road to Wellness
Living with bipolar disorder sucks! Each week Michelle Reittinger and her guests explore tools and resources that help you learn how to live well with your bipolar. If you are tired of suffering and want to live a healthy, balanced, productive life with your bipolar, this podcast was designed with you in mind.
The Upside of Bipolar: Conversations on the Road to Wellness
EP 39: Insights into Healing with Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist Justin Martin
In this meaningful episode Certified IFS Therapist Justin Martin shares:
- His story that led him to become an Internal Family Systems (IFS therapist),
- What IFS therapy is,
- How identifying your “parts” helps you understand your mind and find healing,
- Why you may fear of having compassion for your different parts and why compassion is important to the healing journey,
- How the movie “Inside Out” helps give incredible insight into IFS,
- That you are not trying to “beat” the parts of yourself but learn how to listen and understand what is motivating the parts,
- The importance of finding a trauma informed therapist,
- The value of curiosity in finding the causes of mental, emotional and physical symptoms,
- How to find a certified IFS therapist and a good fit for you,
- That IFS can benefit anyone struggling with mental health symptoms even if there is no history of trauma, even for couples,
- How IFS empowers you to heal and does not tie you to your therapist, and
- His tips for how to decide if IFS is a good fit for you.
Websites: www.partsofmetherapy.com
www.teesmymind.com
Instagram: @partsofmetherapy
Bio:
Justin Martin is a Certified IFS Therapist in Orlando, Florida. He practices from a model of Internal Family Systems and works with individuals and couples.
Justin loves to write and create. This part expresses itself through poetry, short stories, speech, and spoken word. He also loves music and movies and thinks it can be so powerful in accessing his parts. He’s grown to love these parts of himself by going to therapy and continuing to be curious and compassionate as he experiences life. As a therapist, he tries to embody these qualities as he walks with his clients towards helping them find inner peace.
He genuinely loves being a therapist and practitioner and is honored when clients allow him to be a part of their healing journey. Seeing their relationships transform with themselves and others is truly a beautiful thing to witness.
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