Listening to Your Body, Your Psyche, and Ketamine: Somatic Experiencing and Internal Family Systems

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Lynn and Molly discuss Somatic Therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS), two therapeutic modalities often used alongside ketamine treatments. Molly shares a story of Somatic Experiencing, describing how different body sensations revealed helpful emotional insights. We discuss the interweaving relationships between trauma, the body, talk therapy, and therapeutic ketamine.
The conversation then shifts to Internal Family Systems, exploring how listening to our different internal "parts" can bring healing. We emphasize that, within IFS, every part of you gets a seat at the table, gets to be heard and understood. We discuss the IFS concept of an internal "Self," a permanent and unbreakable internal place of connectedness from which we can facilitate our own healing.
Throughout, we highlight how ketamine can work alongside these modalities.

Lorna Skuraton, LMT is the brilliant massage therapist, holder of space, and healer that Molly mentions at the top of the episode. If you're in Chicago, check out her company Venous Return for wonderful massages and powerful Somatic Experiencing sessions.
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1. Theme Song (00:00:00)

2. Personal Experience w/ Somatic Therapy (00:00:50)

3. Messages from the Body (00:01:38)

4. The Role of a Supportive Therapist (00:05:20)

5. More Messages from the Body (00:05:58)

6. Understanding Somatic Experiencing (00:10:20)

7. Relationship between Mind and Body (00:10:54)

8. Finding Energy Practitioners (00:12:00)

9. Emotional Intensity During Somatic Work (00:15:01)

10. Holding Space (00:16:03)

11. Difficulty Tuning into Your Body (00:18:45)

12. Wrong Therapy, Wrong Time (00:21:01)

13. Ketamine and Somatic Therapy (00:24:20)

14. Introduction to Internal Family Systems (00:26:36)

15. Exploring the Concept of Internal Parts (00:28:25)

16. The Role of the "Self" in Healing (00:31:40)

17. IFS and Eating Disorders (00:36:38)

18. Ketamine and Internal Family Systems (00:39:13)

19. IFS Can Sound Like Mumbo Jumbo (00:42:38)

20. Importance of Modalities vs. the Therapeutic Relationship (00:45:16)

21. Outro and Credits (00:47:32)