###### 🔑 Witnessing facilitates inner-Attachment healing[^1] [[💡 Presence]] holds [[💡 Exiles]] the way an adult holds their child. When we witness them, we're emotionally present, giving focused attention, validating, nurturing, hearing, empathizing, connecting, attuning, understanding on a deep level, and making sense of experience [[🔑 Presence has no agenda|without an agenda]]. Witnessing from self facilitates inner attachment. Empathetic attunement, emotional sensing, focused attention, connection, making sense of experience, understanding beliefs and burdens, deep healing occurs in these moments. These are the kinds of things that probably never happened for the exile, which is how the burden got so big. [^1]: [[📖 ✅ IFS Online Circle]] Month 3: Working with Exiles & The Trauma Behind the Rage - Month 3 with Toni Herbine-Blank