Russell S. Durdunji, LMFT, MBA

“Too many interactions are protector [parts within us] wars… because the parts of each side take over and do the talking to each other.

When one part gets extreme, it makes the protector in the other person become equally extreme, or even more, and the whole dynamic just escalates over time.

And that’s particularly true when neither side trusts the overall leadership [of the Self] and has a lot of [exiled parts within them].”

- No Bad Parts, by Richard Schwartz, PhD, p. 157

“The way we relate to our parts translates directly to how we relate to people when they resemble our parts.”

- No Bad Parts, by Richard Schwartz, PhD, p. 151

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1) their macros
2) the latest trends
3) the newest tech
4) current stock performance
5) the stats of their team’s starting lineup
6) next year’s 5-star recruits
7) constitutional law
8) quantum physics

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