Coaching practices for How to Heal Wounded Parts

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• I can feel there’s a young, hurt place in me that everything else is built to keep buried, and part of me wants to finally turn toward it
• After we fight we just let it sit for days with neither of us reaching out, and the hurt quietly piles up until I start reading even neutral things they do as another little jab
• I can feel the wound I want to get to, but every time I reach toward it something in me slams up a wall
• The protectors have stepped aside and I’m finally face to face with the young, hurt part of me, and everything in me wants to rush to fix it and make the pain stop
• I keep waiting until the argument's over to make things right, and by then the damage is done

Practices that may help

1. Meeting exiles (with care)
   Gently turn toward the wounded, exiled parts that protectors work to keep hidden.
   Internal Family Systems (IFS), Made Practical
2. Repair quickly and thoroughly
   Don’t let injuries accumulate — repair within hours or days, not weeks.
   Secure-Functioning Relationships
3. Prepare the ground: get protectors on board first
   Before approaching any exiled part, get explicit permission from the protectors guarding it.
   IFS Unburdening, Made Practical
4. Witness the exile fully before any release
   Let the wounded part show you everything it has been carrying — without rushing to fix, resolve, or move on.
   IFS Unburdening, Made Practical
5. Make small repairs during conflict -- not only big apologies after
   A touch, a softer tone, a brief I love you mid-argument is repair -- use it.
   Repair Attempts: Gottman's Key to Surviving Conflict in Relationships
6. R — Recall the hurt
   Face what happened deliberately and calmly, without minimizing it or replaying it as a victim.
   Forgiveness: The REACH Model
7. Distinguish protectors from exiles
   Sort your parts into those who manage and firefight (protectors) vs those who carry old wounds (exiles).
   IFS Parts Mapping, Made Practical
8. N — Nurture with self-compassion
   Offer the part that is suffering what it most needs — care, acknowledgment, reassurance — as you would a dear friend.
   RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice
9. Soothe physiological flooding before attempting repair
   Repair requires a nervous system that can receive it -- self-soothe before re-engaging.
   Repair Attempts: Gottman's Key to Surviving Conflict in Relationships
10. Debrief and repair after the conflict is over
    The conversation after the fight -- done calmly -- is where lasting repair happens.
    Repair Attempts: Gottman's Key to Surviving Conflict in Relationships

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