As you may have experienced, the writing and sharing of one's own story can be a profound experience. And for those of us witnessing another's story we can experience our hearts opening to parts within others and to parts within ourselves.

For the purpose of encouraging and supporting the potential healing that exists in telling and witnessing stories, a new collection of healing stories is being planned for publication: The Healing Story Project will share personal accounts of Internal Family Systems Therapy.

With this collection I hope to inspire readers to open their hearts to parts within themselves and to parts within others, to reveal the spiritual and mystical depths of the IFS model, and to support the experiential way of learning IFS Therapy.
I welcome you to submit a story whether you're an experienced writer or not. Like parts, all submissions are welcome. For those of you who have parts apprehensive about making a submission, I want to reassure you that the editorial process aims to be supportive, helpful, and Self-led. I’m very open to reading works in progress and providing any support or guidance one might want during the writing process. I encourage you to feel safe knowing that together we can help fine-tune your story and ready it for publication. I’m sensitive to how difficult it can be to reveal one's writing to others, so please know that whatever you have to share will be honored and respected.

I warmly invite you to consider contributing your healing stories to this collection. If you choose to do so, I hope the process of telling your story can be a healing experience in whatever way works for you.

Noah Rubinstein, LMFT