Last year Pew published a report on the experiences of U.S. adults who don't have children. One finding was that friendships with people with children feel harder to retain for those under 50- potentially a reflection of the ways in which parenting and non-parenting are becoming more isolating.

Catching the Big Fish

Short yet potent interoception (your brain’s perception of your body’s state) exercise:

The psycho-spiritual pseudoscientific Enneagram test can be a useful tool for self-insight and exploration.. & I think combining it with IFS theory and viewing your number(s) as a dominant protector provides a more holistic and transformative, less absolutist key to internal maps (said like a 2 🙄)

Ambivalence, internal conflict, decision paralysis, dissonance: the experience is constituent of the human condition and in IFS it’s called a polarization. While new language might not be needed, I think IFS offers a uniquely helpful framework and process for navigating the phenomenon

I see IFS Therapy as particularly effective at holding, exploring, and moving towards resolution of ambivalence, and I’d love to learn more about approaches to navigating deeply felt ambivalence in other modalities