Stacey Rupolo's Reviews > No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

Dang this book just changed my whole life! The exercises in this book showed me some things about myself that I’m going to be thinking about for a while. I can see IFS work being an antidote to CBT and behaviorally focused therapy approaches that tend to dominate modern mental health.

That being said, there were some wild and problematic ideas sprinkled throughout this book that I’m still processing. It had some overt ableism and at one point the author suggested asking parts if doses of medication were correct?? There was some irresponsible writing, in my opinion (particularly around blanket statements about medication, psychedelics, and God??). While I appreciated the inclusion of the spiritual aspect of humanity, Inthink those topics could have been handled with more respect and maybe just been left out entirely! maybe this particular book on IFS won’t be for everyone (it was written by a white dude who does “corporate consulting” lol) but the ideas I learned about were life changing.