Picture This: A Beautifully Illustrated Guide to IFS
If you’ve ever wished for a short, beautiful, and easy way to introduce IFS to your clients, your partner, your family, or even that skeptical part of you, my guest on this week’s episode has created it.
Ashley Booth is a psychedelic-assisted psychotherapist, researcher, and trainer whose new picture book, Quieting the Storm Within, is visually stunning and packed with practical IFS tools you can use right away.
What I love most about what Ashley offers in the book (and our conversation) is her way of explaining IFS. She brings so much compassion to the model, and reminds us that all parts are advocating for an unmet need. In one image clouds (parts) float over a mountain (a nod to Maslow’s hierarchy pyramid) to show how our parts often emerge in response to unmet needs, and how healing creates space to move into more expansive states of being. She also includes an incredible visual exercise, inspired by Alicia Dabney, called "Parts Unstacking," that helps you check in and externalize the parts. It’s parts mapping, reimagined.
She has illustrated the model so beautifully. The clouds are parts; the sun is Self. This book is such a wonderful gift and resource for all of us in the IFS community.
Ashley’s journey from oceanography to psychedelic-assisted therapy began with a deep heartbreak over the state of the planet. Through her own psychedelic experiences and deep inner work, she realized we can’t protect the oceans or the forests until we heal people. Supporting others in reconnecting to themselves—and something bigger—is what gives her real hope for the future.
Whether you’re a therapist, a curious human, or just in need of a little Self-Led sunshine, this episode is for you.
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