Coaching practices for Mapping Inner Voices

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• There are all these voices in me
• There’s this voice in my head that never shuts up
• I can sense my parts one at a time but I can never hold the whole thing in my head at once
• While I’m actually performing there’s this running commentary telling me I’m blowing it, and I take every word of it as fact in the moment
• When I write to myself the only voice that shows up is the harsh one, judging every line

Practices that may help

1. Take an initial inventory of your parts
   Name the recurring inner voices, emotions, and reactions — one per part — without judgment.
   IFS Parts Mapping, Made Practical
2. Noticing the inner voice
   Recognize the constant mental narrator — and the fact that you are the one hearing it.
   The Untethered Soul, In Practice
3. Draw or sketch the inner system visually
   Put parts and their relationships on paper — who is close to whom, who holds whom at arm’s length.
   IFS Parts Mapping, Made Practical
4. Identify your Self 1 interference in real time
   Notice when your inner critic is instructing, judging, or catastrophizing — and name it as Self 1.
   The Inner Game: Quieting Self 1
5. Write from the voice of an unconditionally kind friend
   Adopt the perspective of someone who loves you completely and sees your situation clearly.
   The Self-Compassion Letter, Made Practical
6. 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
7. The inner critic dialogue
   Give the inner critic a voice on paper and then respond — the goal is dialogue, not silencing.
   Shadow Work
8. Identifying your parts
   Notice the distinct inner voices and reactions as separate "parts," each with its own agenda.
   Internal Family Systems (IFS), Made Practical
9. Working with Multiple Selves (Chair Work in CFT)
   Give voice to different internal parts — the critic, the anxious self, the compassionate self — to understand and change the dialogue.
   Compassion-Focused Therapy: Calming the Inner Critic
10. Quieting the commentary track
    Notice the layer of continuous inner commentary on experience and practise resting in the experience itself.
    Pu: Taoist Simplicity and the Uncarved Block

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