In this episode, David leads Hallie and Christine (and you) through an exercise based on a beautiful gardening metaphor to bring curiosity and awareness to the relationships in our lives.

In the exercise, we imagine four flower beds - one each for seedling, deeply rooted flowering, withering, and dying relationships. We assess the time and energy we put into each type of relationship as well as listen to parts' fears and needs around the various stages of our relationships.

After the exercise, Christine and Hallie share about the insights they gained, and Hallie extends the metaphor in many wonderful ways.

If you participate in the exercise, we'd love to hear about your experience in the comment section!

0:00 Intro
0:10 Theme Song
0:34 Exercise Overview
2:01 Parts Check-In
3:17 Imagining The Garden
5:32 Noticing Four Flowerbeds
8:59 Energy & Effort Percentage
10:52 First Flowerbed - Seedlings & Saplings
13:42 Second Flowerbed - Evergreens
16:03 Third Flowerbed - Wilting & Withering
18:18 Fourth Flowerbed - Composting
20:42 Part's Insights?
21:15 Energy & Effort Change?
23:02 Bonus Question
23:44 Exercise Ending
24:20 Christine's Experience
35:54 Hallie's Experience
56:43 Relationship Discussion
1:10:36 Closing & Goodbyes
1:11:49 Theme Song
1:12:53 Like & Subscribe!

In this episode, Hallie leads David and Christine (and you) through an incredibly helpful exercise to get to know parts around a polarization and then to bring them together to find a Self-led consensus.

Hallie starts with the prompt, "What is something you/parts of you have been putting off?” and leads us to get to know the parts who want to do the thing and the parts who block/resist it. She guides us toward gentle inquiry of each part/set of parts to find out their fears, needs, values, and requests.

At the end, we all share for what came up for us in the experiment/experience.

Feel free to join us in doing the exercise and share your experience in the comments or just listen to our experiences. You cannot get it wrong!

0:00 Intro
0:11 Theme Song
0:35 Exercise Preview
1:51 Exercise Overview
6:54 Finding a Trailhead
8:17 First Part's Questions P1
11:33 First Part's Questions P2
12:39 First Part's Questions P3
13:21 Second Part's Questions P1
16:18 Second Part's Questions P2
16:45 Second Part's Questions P3
17:24 Spending Time With Vulnerable Parts
20:23 Bringing Parts Together
21:54 Sharing Part's Perspectives
24:43 Inviting a Consensus
25:54 Exercise Conclusion
27:53 David's Experience
36:01 Christine's Experience
48:05 Exercise Reflection
56:40 Hallie's Experience
1:00:14 Closing & Goodbyes
1:02:23 Theme Song
1:03:23 Like & Subscribe!

In this episode, Christine leads Hallie and David (and you) through an exercise in which we express our parts' concerns by journaling with our dominant hand and then respond from Love/Spirit/SELF with our non dominant hand.

Christine gives an overview of the many sources which use a similar method to access wisdom from Divine Source - Liz Gilbert's Letters from Love, The Morning Pages encouraged in The Artist's Way, Journal Speak developed by Nicole Sachs to heal chronic pain, Conversations With God by Neal Donald Walsh, and Spirit by Bob Falconer. Christine also talks about the influence of Jill Bolte Taylor's ideas in her book "Whole Brain Living," which made Christine wonder if our Self exists, or is at least channeled by, our right brain. She talks about the parallels between the parts and Self in IFS and JBT's "4 Characters" of the brain in this video.

Christine, Hallie, and David all do the exercise and share the responses they got from Love/Spirit/SELF as well as their experience using the exercise in the recent past. Check out our SLB Instagram account if you'd like to see the writing that came out of it for us.

Please feel free to try the exercise and let us know how it went in the comments below.

0:00 Intro
0:18 Theme Song
0:42 Exercise Overview
1:52 Exercise Influences
11:32 Exercise Preview
16:08 Step One - Parts Writing with Right Hand
18:00 Step Two - Parts Question and Left Hand Reply
20:08 Christine's Experience
24:45 David's Experience
38:24 Hallie's Experience
48:17 Past Experiences with Exercise
57:24 Outro & Goodbyes
57:57 Theme Song