Exploring & Enquiring into Parts

Podcast Episode: Exploring and Inquiring into Parts

Guests: Ryan Hassan & Matt Kay

Episode Overview

In this insightful episode, Ryan Hassan and Matt Kay guide listeners through the fascinating world of parts work, explaining how different aspects of ourselves form, interact, and influence our behaviours. They share practical tools for relating to these parts with curiosity and compassion, as well as embodied techniques for deeper self-exploration.

Key Topics Covered

1. Understanding Parts

• What are "parts" and how do they form?

• How parts develop as coping mechanisms during childhood experiences and challenging environments.

• Understanding internal conflicts and self-sabotaging behaviours that arise when parts are in opposition.

2. Relating to Parts

• Adopting a compassionate and curious approach to your parts.

• Welcoming all parts of yourself—even those you may dislike or want to suppress.

• Recognising that parts are aspects of yourself, not separate entities.

3. Embodied Inquiry

• Exploring parts through embodied inquiry, a somatic, felt-sense method.

• Sample inquiry questions:

  • When did this part first emerge?

  • How has it served or sabotaged you?

  • What does it believe about you or the world?

  • What does it need, and what would happen if it weren’t present?

Key Insights & Takeaways

• Parts are often created as survival mechanisms, helping maintain autonomy and connection, particularly after developmental trauma or a lack of safety and empathy.

• Healing involves integration and wholeness, where all parts are acknowledged and understood.

• Cultivating the ability to compassionately witness your parts and respond to their needs with empathy is crucial for personal growth, individuation, and lasting healing.

Resources & Next Steps

• Embodied Processing (EP) provides a structured approach to exploring and working with parts.

• Click the Embodied Processing free pre-training here - https://www.thecentreforhealing.com/embodied-processing-pretraining

• For personalized guidance, consider reaching out to Ryan, Matt, or a certified EP practitioner.