Richard Schwartz and Tamala Floyd: Healing Across Generations: IFS + Ancestral Wisdom
4/23/20261 hr 3 min
What if the pain you've carried your whole life didn't begin with you? Tami Simon speaks with Richard Schwartz—founder of Internal Family Systems—and psychotherapist and IFS lead trainer Tamala Floyd, author of Listening: When Parts Speak, about the intersection of IFS and ancestral wisdom, and how healing legacy burdens can liberate not only ourselves, but the generations that come after us.
This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.
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The Sounds True Podcast Network. [gentle music] In this episode of Insights at the Edge, I'm joined by Dick Schwartz, someone I'm honored to call a friend, the founder of Internal Family Systems, and Tamala Floyd, a psychotherapist and the first ever Black individual to become a certified IFS lead trainer, and the author of Listening When Parts Speak. They join together here for a dialogue on the ways that IFS and ancestral wisdom intersect to heal intergenerational trauma. Welcome, friends. Stay with us. [upbeat music] It is my joy and honor to welcome you to this special session, Healing Across Generations, A Dialogue on Internal Family Systems, IFS, and Ancestral Wisdom with Dick Schwartz and Tamala Floyd. Dick Schwartz is the founder of IFS, and with Sounds True, he's the author of the best-selling book, No Bad Parts, and a recent book