🔼: [[🦮 How to get to know your parts solo]] ##### 🛠 Solo Parts Work Journal [[🔑 Journaling helps us unblend]] through [[🛠 Externalization]], become aware of [[💡 Parts|Parts]] and [[💡 Trailheads|trailheads]], and to witness and hold space for them. It also helps with [[🛠 Containment]]. [[🦮 How to get to know your parts solo|🦮 Solo Parts Work]] becomes much easier when we aren't doing everything in our head. ###### Parts Dialogue Start a written dialogue between parts. Write whatever a the Parts say, write your response, and so on. We might combine this with [[🛠 Non-Dominant Hand Writing]]. I've also started with [[🛠 Freewriting]] and then gone over the entry to notice various [[💡 Parts|Parts]] to start a dialog with. ###### Role Swapping This will feel awkward at first, and we’re unlikely to make as much progress as we would with a practitioner, but it is possible to become accustomed to guiding someone through [[💡 The IFS Process]] and to make progress on our own by switching roles in a journal and being our own practitioner. ![[💡 Trailheads#How to Find a Trailhead|trailheads]] ![[🕯️ Journaling#Medium]] ###### Next Step [[🦮 How to get to know your parts solo#Step 3: Closing|Closing]] [^1]: