All Parts Welcome
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28th August 2025
Price: £19
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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781648485282
Embrace your authentic self, heal emotional pain and trauma, and build meaningful connections while honoring the complexity of your identity and experiences.
If you are queer or transgender, you may feel like you have to hide certain aspects of yourself, both physically and mentally, in order to “blend into” society. You may even feel ashamed of your differences, due to a history of judgment or rejection from others. You aren’t alone. Many queer and trans people feel disconnected from their authentic selves, or have internalized negative beliefs about what it means to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary-or anything that deviates from our culture’s expectations regarding gender or sexual expression. So, how can you fully embrace the beauty of who you are?
All Parts Welcome offers skills grounded in internal family systems (IFS) therapy to help you build self-compassion, strength, and resilience as you reconnect with, reclaim, and befriend the parts of yourself you’ve lost touch with. The concept of multiplicity in IFS will show you how to honor all parts of your identity-such as race, ethnicity, religion, class, and ability-and help you gain a greater understanding of how these parts intersect with your sexuality or gender expression.
This workbook will help you:
·Heal the pain of rejection-including rejection from your family
·Honor the coping mechanisms that have helped you survive
·Identify what matters to you
·Set boundaries with others
·Build community and meaningful connection
·Boost your mental health
IFS, at its core, is about inclusion and belonging-about making space for the complexity of our identities and experiences, including both the challenging and joyful ones. If you’re ready to celebrate all of the parts that make you you, this workbook can help you get started.
If you are queer or transgender, you may feel like you have to hide certain aspects of yourself, both physically and mentally, in order to “blend into” society. You may even feel ashamed of your differences, due to a history of judgment or rejection from others. You aren’t alone. Many queer and trans people feel disconnected from their authentic selves, or have internalized negative beliefs about what it means to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary-or anything that deviates from our culture’s expectations regarding gender or sexual expression. So, how can you fully embrace the beauty of who you are?
All Parts Welcome offers skills grounded in internal family systems (IFS) therapy to help you build self-compassion, strength, and resilience as you reconnect with, reclaim, and befriend the parts of yourself you’ve lost touch with. The concept of multiplicity in IFS will show you how to honor all parts of your identity-such as race, ethnicity, religion, class, and ability-and help you gain a greater understanding of how these parts intersect with your sexuality or gender expression.
This workbook will help you:
·Heal the pain of rejection-including rejection from your family
·Honor the coping mechanisms that have helped you survive
·Identify what matters to you
·Set boundaries with others
·Build community and meaningful connection
·Boost your mental health
IFS, at its core, is about inclusion and belonging-about making space for the complexity of our identities and experiences, including both the challenging and joyful ones. If you’re ready to celebrate all of the parts that make you you, this workbook can help you get started.
Reviews
I love this workbook! It's a gentle, accessible, and nuanced guide to working with one's internal parts, specifically for queer and trans people. Sand C. Chang encourages the reader to welcome all parts—making room for the tender ones inside that may have been marginalized, dismissed, or denigrated by the heteronormative world. What a beautiful gift to us and to the field of IFS.
Without exaggeration, this workbook is immediately indispensable! Sand C. Chang gently guides queer and trans readers into a calm and compassionate IFS practice space. Their personal illustrations, captivating reflection questions, innovative worksheets, and courageous meditations amplify our inner wisdom. Chang invites us into embracing our unique inner ecosystems while centering collective care. This book is a bright star illuminating how we may become more skillful at radical belonging.
I'm so grateful to internal family systems (IFS) trainer Sand C. Chang for writing this book. It so skillfully applies my life's work to the queer and trans community, a group that, traditionally and particularly lately, contains some of the more persecuted exiles in our culture. I not only highly recommend it as a potent workbook for that community, but also for anyone who wants to better understand and/or help them.