Monte and Mechelle pick up right where they left off — in the middle of a real rupture. What started as a disagreement about a book series becomes a window into something much deeper: emotional flashbacks, family-of-origin limbic triggers, and what it looks like when two people who've done the work finally know how to find their way back to each other.
Then Mechelle leads listeners through their first live IFS experience — and Monte meets his Flame Princess.
This episode goes deep on what IFS actually is, where it came from, and why Richard Schwartz's two biggest barriers to getting people on board still show up today. Plus: the difference between speaking for your parts versus speaking from them, and why that distinction changes everything.
Part 2 of 2.

In this episode:
• What an emotional flashback actually looks like inside a marriage
• How family-of-origin limbic systems can pull you back to being five years old
• Micro vs. macro vs. mid-level ruptures — and how this one was different
• A guided IFS meditation you can do right now
• The origin story of IFS and Richard Schwartz
• Speaking for your parts vs. from your parts
• The 8 Cs of Self energy
• Why your Self can never be taken away — no matter what you've been through