Outshining trauma A new vision of radical self-compassion integrating internal family systems and Buddhist meditation

Ralph De La Rosa

Book - 2024

"Discover a path for post-traumatic growth, spiritual insight, and deep compassion for the most challenging parts of yourself. Ralph De La Rosa integrates Richard Schwartz's extremely successful Internal Family Systems (IFS) model with Buddhist meditation practice to offer a radically different healing paradigm"--

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  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • How to Use This Book
  • Introduction: The Things We Carry
  • Part 1. Roots The Lived Experience of Trauma and the Process of Healing
  • 1. The Soma Keeps the Score: Understanding Trauma and the Window of Consolidation
  • 2. More Than the Sum of Your Parts: The Internal Family Systems Model of the Psyche
  • 3. Road Map to Within: Finding and Working with Your Parts
  • 4. Healing in the Dark: The Interplay of Parts
  • 5. The Sky Is Larger Than the Sun: Post-Traumatic Growth
  • 6. The Endgame of Healing: The North Star of Our Work
  • Part 2. Branches Becoming a Self-Healer through Meditation and Parts Work
  • 7. How Change Works: Causes, Conditions, and the River of Self-Love
  • 8. Embodying Self-Compassion: Gentle Practices for Relief
  • 9. Refuge: Protection beyond Defense Mechanisms
  • 10. Beyond Inner Dialogue: Engaging Parts Work in Meditation
  • 11. You Are Never Alone: Self Energy Surrogates
  • 12. Making the Unseen Seen: Parts Mapping
  • 13. Heartfulness with Parts: Buddhist Lovingkindness for Parts
  • 14. The Full Adventure: The Threefold Healing of IFS
  • Part 3. Leaves Lojong, Tonglen, and the Spirituality of Reparenting
  • 15. Adjusting the Lens: Seeing Through Core Beliefs with Clarity
  • 16. The Four Reminders: An Antidote to Apathy and Other Forms of Sublimated Suicidality
  • 17. Hold It Lightly: You Are Dreaming
  • 18. Play: Relearning the Essential
  • 19. Turning the Terrible into Tenderness: The Emotional Alchemy of Tonglen
  • 20. Love with Nowhere Left to Go: On Grief
  • Conclusion: We Are the New Cartographers
  • Notes
  • About the Author