A Lantern in the Woods

IFS/parts work coaching and intuitive guidance to journey through the shadow to find clarity and healing.

SUPPORT TO ILLUMINATE YOUR WAY FORWARD.

Jennifer Hinckley Baglia

We all feel at times in our lives like we’re wandering in a dark wood and could use a lantern to light our way. 

Quite often, fear and self-doubt keep us from living our most fulfilling, joyful, and contented lives. The fear of change, loss, and rejection makes it consciously and subconsciously hard to do something outside of what family, society, or religion expects.  We carry all this fear, self-doubt, and old stories within our systems. There are parts of ourselves in direct conflict with other parts; some pulling towards “safety” and others pulling towards expansion and growth, making it very difficult to move forward.  

Using Internal Family Systems (IFS)/parts work, and other modalities, we find the roots of limiting beliefs sown by childhood wounds, trauma, religion, society, and our families. 

It’s a tool for introspection, radical self-acceptance, self-compassion, and self-love—a powerful combination that results in lasting change.

When we try to eliminate unwanted aspects of our personality (our shadow), we inadvertently strengthen them by shaming them, and ultimately making them work harder, keeping us even more “stuck.” Instead, when we learn how to embrace all aspects of ourselves, we can work with them to ultimately accept and release the stories and wounds and find new ways of being. This self-awareness and self-love become a way of living, but deep work on our own is difficult; we need someone to facilitate our journey inward and to guide us in discovering the intricate elements of our internal system.

This is for you if: 

• You’re struggling, and you don’t know how to move forward. 

• You know you’re not living your truth or your full potential and are ready to uplevel your life.

• You feel like you are ruled by fear and anxiety.

• You feel like something’s missing in your life, but you can’t figure out what that is.

• You know there are choices, but you don’t know what they are or how to make them.

• You’re looking for support in seeing things more clearly and developing trust within yourself.  

• There are circumstances in your life that you cannot change, for the time being, and you need help finding acceptance and coping strategies. 

• You want to learn how to connect to and trust your intuition and inner knowing.

This is not for you if: 

• You aren’t open to imaginal, creative methods of working with yourself and the parts of your personality.

• You don’t want to be honest with yourself.

• You don’t want to be accountable and to take responsibility for yourself.

• You don’t want to do the work outside of the coaching session.

• You’re looking for a magic fix.

• You don’t like cats. ;-) Just kidding, I’ll still work with you.

When we work directly with the parts of ourselves that hold the limiting beliefs, and befriend and embrace them, we can integrate them as allies within our internal system. We can also gain greater access to Self, which can also be described as the soul, the “watcher”, one’s divine nature, or true spirit untainted by the accumulated wounds and stories of our past, an intrinsic guide always there, ready to help light our way forward.