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IFS & Sufism — The Meeting of the Heart and the Self
This article compares Sufism and Internal Family Systems, showing how both paths use compassion, inner guidance, and remembrance to restore peace and bring the heart back to wholeness.
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The Inner Map — How the Sufi Nafs Mirrors IFS Parts
This article explores how Sufi teachings on the nafs mirror Internal Family Systems, showing how parts, protectors, and Self-energy reflect an ancient map of inner transformation.
3 min read
From Zikr to Unburdening — Sufi Practices that Enrich IFS Work
This article explores how Sufi practices like zikr and breath mirror Internal Family Systems, showing how remembrance, regulation, and Self-energy support deep emotional healing.
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Healing the Heart — IFS in Muslim and Sufi Therapy Today
This article explores how Internal Family Systems is being integrated with Islamic and Sufi healing practices, showing how compassion-based parts work aligns with remembrance, mercy, and heart-centered transformation.
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Welcoming Every Guest: Rumi, Compassion, and the IFS Way of Seeing Parts (Sufi)
This article explores the shared wisdom of Sufism and Internal Family Systems, showing how welcoming inner “guests” with compassion and curiosity transforms emotional pain into healing and insight.
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Healing the Veils: Using IFS for Trauma and Spiritual Openness (Sufi)
This article explores how Internal Family Systems helps gently heal emotional wounds that feel like veils on the heart, drawing parallels with Sufi teachings on remembrance, devotion, and inner clarity.
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Working with the Nafs: How IFS Can Help Sufis Heal Without Harshness (Sufi)
This article explores how Internal Family Systems reframes the Sufi struggle with the nafs, offering a path of purification rooted in mercy, curiosity, and healing rather than shame, suppression, or inner warfare.
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The Self and the Heart: Connecting IFS Self Leadership with the Sufi Qalb (Sufi)
This article explores the deep resonance between the IFS Self and the Sufi concept of the qalb, showing how parts work polishes the heart through compassion, remembrance, and gentle inner leadership.
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IFS and Sufism: A Path to Inner Harmony (Sufi)
This article explores the shared ground between Internal Family Systems and Sufism, showing how parts work and the Sufi path of the heart both soften ego defenses, heal inner wounds, and support remembrance through compassion rather than struggle.
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Zikr and Self Energy: The Role of Remembrance in IFS Healing (Sufi)
This article explores how IFS gently prepares the inner landscape for zikr by welcoming parts with compassion, allowing Sufi remembrance to deepen into a spacious, sincere, and embodied return to the Beloved.
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Whirling Toward Wholeness: Sufi Movement as Parts Integration (Sufi)
This article explores the whirling dervish as an embodied devotional practice and shows how it parallels unblending, presence, and Self energy in Internal Family Systems therapy.
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Free IFS Enneagram Course
This free course explores the Enneagram as a system for understanding motivation rather than behavior. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it offers a grounded approach to the nine types without simplification or pressure to type.
Free IFS Ray Course
This free course explores the Seven Rays as fundamental streams of consciousness shaping psychology, spirituality, and human development. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it offers a grounded way to understand these forces without turning them into labels.
Japji Sahib Pauree 17
Japji Sahib Pauree 17 points toward the boundlessness of the Divine, naming countless forms, names, qualities, and expressions that can never be fully captured or contained. Guru Nanak emphasizes humility before the infinite, reminding the seeker that language and intellect fall short. Through an Internal Family Systems (IFS) lens, this pauree softens parts that crave certainty or mastery and invites Self-led presence with mystery rather than control.
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