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Sage Phoenix's avatar

I love these YOU turns for my Relationsick infant parts to better Self connect, lissa! I must say these parts have baffled and embarrassed me - so i thank you for helping my over activated parts be well re-mothered with resources like trauma informed IFS and books like Relationsick ! We look forward to ongoing evolutions of sub autonomous parts when - or if - they arise🙏🙂

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Lissa Rankin, MD's avatar

Ah, I so appreciate your validation and support Sage. Thanks for believing in me and the work I do- and for believing in you and your Self energy to help support those parts that have embarrassed other parts...

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Bronwen's avatar

Thank you so much for sharing this piece and bringing this term of Relationsick into being. This is like a missing link for me that explains so much about my own life that has been peppered with chronic health issues that I can now trace to this root cause…

Somehow you are saying something additional on top of other fabulous writings and insights that have been game changing steps along the way for me: from Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps The Score to Gabor Mate’s When The Body Says No… to IFS and Karla McLaren’s Language Of Emotions approaches. And (even) with knowing, practicing and enquiring within myself from a base of these approaches, this Relationsickness concept and the clear instruction of the need to You-Turn is allowing understand and be with myself so much more deeply. I love that you are interweaving and building on all these and much more… especially bringing neurodiversity clearly into the fore.

Thank you!

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Abigayle's avatar

I'm new to parts work but am excited to learn more about You-Turns. I'm having a breakthrough moment and know this is the way forward for me - where so far little else has "worked" or done the real deep dive into seeing and acknowledging those well-hidden exiled parts, much less gained mastery with them. Thanks Lissa for your work, I so appreciate it!

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Lissa Rankin, MD's avatar

I'm so excited for you to have discovered this game-changing path of transformation and healing. Good luck, Abigayle. I have trust in the model and hope it supports you well.

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