🕯️ IFS and Reparenting

Reparenting in IFS isn’t pretending to be your own parent—it’s Self becoming the steady presence your younger parts always needed.

• A caretaker part may rush to nurture but secretly feel exhausted.

• A skeptical part may scoff, “It’s too late for that.”

• A wounded child part may hide, afraid love will vanish again.

IFS moves slowly, asking:

• “Would it feel okay if I just sat with you?”

• “What do you need to know from me right now?”

Reparenting isn’t about fixing or soothing away pain—it’s about showing up consistently until the system believes you’ll stay.

Over time, protectors begin to trust Self’s calm warmth. The inner child stops scanning for safety and starts receiving it.

In IFS, reparenting is the art of staying—the body learning that the love it longed for has finally arrived.