My recently published book, Self-Therapy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Inner Wholeness Using IFS, contains many illustrations that clarify the IFS process. Bonnie got the brilliant idea to make these into a card deck that can be easily used to understand how IFS works. She also added some images to the deck that weren’t in the book, to make it more complete. Now that our new website is up, we are excited about making this deck available for purchase. Within the next couple of days, you should be able to see what the cards looks like and buy the deck on the website. Look for a button on the home page that says IFS Teaching Aids.

This questions was sent to me a while ago and I answered it by email. With Peter’s permission, I am including it on the blog. I encourage you to email me questions to be answered at jay@earley.org.

Peter asks:

I’ve purchased your book and am about a third in.
I wonder if I can ask you a question.
Who is it who is asking the protector to step aside. Is it another protector? Or does one move to Self before asking? It’s probably there in the pages I read but I’m still not clear. Read the rest of this entry »