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How To Be Your Own Best Daddy
A Parts Work, Attachment-Informed Guide to Nurturing a Relationship With The Inner Archetypal Energy of The Good Father on Father's Day
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Sarah Ann Saeger
Sometimes Your Parts Need Reintegration, Not Unburdening: On Summoning The Strengths of Lost Selves & Displaced Parts
Why I can't out-Self mom rage right now, how my long-lost feminine flowy self is bringing balance & rhythm to my system, and how you can reconnect with…
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Sarah Ann Saeger
On The Burden Of Self-Reliance & Why It's So Hard To Ask For Help When You Need It
Let's explore self-reliance as an adaptive response using Internal Family Systems & polyvagal theory & identify how to unwind this response (hint: it…
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Ten Steps To Being Who You Needed When You Were Younger
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How to Re-Parent The Parts of You That Grew up Too Fast
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How to Re-mother Your Exile Parts & Build Inner Attachment For Parentified Adult Children
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What Gets in The Way is The Way
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Your Creative Process is a Healing Journey
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Your Village Can Heal Your Disorganized Attachment Style
How accepting people's limitations is good for your children and healing for your attachment system as a parent
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Sarah Ann Saeger
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What I Didn't Know About Motherhood Is...
A poem on my motherhood journey, for all the new mamas <3
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Sarah Ann Saeger
How to Re-mother Your Exile Parts & Build Inner Attachment For Parentified Adult Children
Your Self-energy can hold everything in you in need of mothering. Here are 5 IFS-inspired, attachment-informed reminders for your young parentified…
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No one shows up to parenthood fully healed.
Why your children wake up your vulnerabilities & show you that there's more inner work to do <3
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Imposter Syndrome's Role in The Creative Process
Creative practice is parts work practice, & other IFS-inspired musings
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Sarah Ann Saeger
How to Work Through Creative Blocks Without Bypassing Their Wisdom
IFS-inspired reflections on creative blocks & a journaling practice for paid subscribers
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Sarah Ann Saeger
Addiction in The Inner World: IFS & Trauma-Informed Perspectives on Substance Use & Addictive Processes
Exploring the cycle of addiction as a cycle of traumatization & a parts mapping practice for you
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