##### 🔑 Our parts influence others [[🔑 Our inner family is an ecosystem]], and our inner-ecosystem is in relationship to other people's in exactly the same way that one external ecosystem is in relationship with the rest of the planet. We are all [[💡 Interdependence|interdependent]]. In all [[⭐️ Relationships]], whether client and therapist, teacher and student, partners, colleagues, friends, or passersby, [[💡 Parts|Parts]] impact and react to each other. Different parts of us feel different ways about different parts of other people and vice versa — this is normal. ###### See Also - [[🔑 If the response feels disproportionate it’s about something else]] [^1]: [[📖 ✅ IFS Online Circle]] Month 5 - Parts of the Therapist and the Therapeutic Relationship + Integration - The Therapeutic Relationship [^2]: [[📖 🟠 Bring Yourself to Love - How Couples Can Turn Disconnection Into Intimacy]]