No Bad Parts | Richard Schwartz

Why it is included: We often try to exile the parts of ourselves we don't like—the angry part, the addicted part, the fearful part.

Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems (IFS) model argues that this internal war is what makes us sick.

He reframes the psyche not as a monolith, but as a "village" of parts (Exiles, Managers, Firefighters), all of which have good intentions.

We include this because it is the manual for Self-Leadership.

It teaches us to lead our internal village with curiosity rather than shame.

By befriending our "shadow" parts rather than fighting them, we unlock massive amounts of trapped energy, integrating the fragmented self into a cohesive, grounded whole.