Everyone Has a Sam reading

Podcasts and Recorded Courses with Rosi:

• Mobius Moment with Stephenie Girard (15 min, exploring the systemic nature of inner critics)
• Woven Wings Live episode on the inner critic w Rosi (1 hr, interview and live demo on shifting inner critics)
• Naropa's Mindful U Podcast episode w/ Rosi (1 hr, interview on inner critics and how to shift them)
• Mike's Search for Meaning (1 hr, sharing the background of me and my work)
• Rise Recover Live (20 min, on meeting Sam and befriending him)
• The Wonderdome (1 hr, on the vulnerable questions and experiences behind 'Sam')
• Full workshop at Naropa Extended Campus (90 min)
• Corentus First Friday Thought Leader (40 min, includes reading of 'Everyone Has a Sam')
• Keynote at Recovery Cafe Network on Loving Accountability (50 min)​

                                                                                                                                                                ... And more on Spotify!

Recommended Readings & Teachers

Right: Understanding Your Inner Critic - Esther Perel & Dick Schwartz (6 min)

Additional Recommended Videos:
Listening to Shame - Brene Brown (20 min)
Intro to Internal Family Systems - Dick Schwartz (5 min)
​Dick Schwartz Guided Meditation (30 min)
Dick Schwartz Guided Meditation (10 min)

Recommended Books & Articles:

• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead – Brené Brown Groundbreaking research and writing about shame and the power of vulnerability.
• Inward – Yung Pueblo Poetry on finding ourselves and becoming whole
• US: Getting Past You and Me Consciousness to Build More Loving Relationships – Terry Real From the world of relationship therapy, Terry Real brings a beautiful framework for how our individualistic culture creates the adaptive child parts of us that live in shame and one-down-ness.
• The Body is Not An Apology – Sonya Renee Taylor Tying together our systems and our internal worlds, Sonya Renee Taylor explores the shame around our bodies and how to overcome it.
• No Bad Parts – Dick Schwartz We all have ‘parts’ inside us that want different things and take over our internal systems. Learn about the framework of Internal Family Systems Therapy and how to return to Self energy.
• The Heart of Trauma – Bonnie Badenoch Neurological understandings of how to care for trauma and how our society pushes us towards the more critical left brain
• The Artists Way – Julia Cameron A path of creative awakening to find the artist within
• Draw Your Feelings -- Rukmini Podar A beautiful guidebook to emotional learning and healing
• Self Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself -- Kristen Neff A sweet exploration of how to love ourselves
• Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome -- Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey Connecting Imposter 'Syntrome' to the Systemic Forces that create it and pointing the finger in the right place.
• The Imposter Phenomenon in High Achieving Women: Dynamics and Therapeutic Intervention -- Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes The original article about Imposter Phenomenon in 1978
• 16-Steps for Discovery and Empowerment (a 12-Step Alternative)
• The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief -- Francis Weller The five gates of grief and how to be with each with presence and love

Videos:

• How to be with grief, a video on the importance of acknowledgment
• The Rabbit Listened, a short story about the power of presence

Resources on Public Narrative and Resource Library for Organizing

Click here to be taken to the Gallery page to see the inner critics gallery and download exercises.

This list is continually under development - let’s build it together! Email me your suggested resources!

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Ian Solomon for sparking my creativity to actually get this workbook out into the world - I wouldn't have done it without your inspiration. Thank you to Dick Schwartz, Paul Gunter, Terri Dalton, Rina Dubin, and Kasi Shanmukanathan, my Internal Family Systems Teachers, as well as the Program Assistants and other participants I got to learn alongside of. Thank you to Cliff Barry and Vicki Woodard for Shadow Work and your Risk Manager teachings, which deeply influence this work. Thank you to Nadja Taranczewski for teaching me that we can be more than one thing and love ourselves. Thank you to Yotam Schachter, Fahad Punjwani, Axelle Bagot, Houman Harouni, Michael Koehler, Tim O'Brian, Megan Bock, Sarah El-Raheb Dagher, Tanvi Girotra, Noa Yammer, and others who I have been so lucky to teach and learn alongside of, and develop these ideas in practice with you. Thanks to Stephen Rohde for reading early drafts, and Shalvi Schachter Weismann for ideas and thought partnership on the journey.