This is a conversation between a protector part (which is guarding a broken traumatised part of the person) and the executive “self”. In this example story the person has childhood trauma and struggles with drug addiction, the executive self leads towards asking that protector part (which was born to protect in early adversity) to now step aside and lay down its protective tools (chronic substance abuse). Which could lead to integrating the hurting orphan of the psyches pain into the fragmented self narrative and beginning to lead a new season of life. This idea was born from me being a drug addict for 13 years (clean since April 3rd 2017) and also working with trauma for 12 years. In real life nothing is ever this linear and clean but I wanted to demonstrate a concept and internal conversation that inspired me. The idea of the multiplicity of self is from IFS (internal family systems therapy) and a wealth of wisdom can be found by googling this theory created by Richard Schwartz. #addiction #addictionrecovery #traumarecovery #wedorecover #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #internalfamilysystems #traumahealing