How to Talk Amongst Your Selves: A Beginner’s Guide to Self Leadership
Suffering Can Be a Hidden Gift
I don’t say this to minimize suffering in any way. I say it because, for those of us who have struggled deeply, pain can become a doorway to wisdom.
If we have to fight for peace, we learn things most people never will. And that hard-earned understanding can become one of our greatest gifts – if we know how to use it.
We get to discover life-changing ways of thinking and being – because our previous ways were so ineffective, hurtful, or damaging.
Personally, I’ve had my fair share of inner suffering. Anxiety. Depression. The trauma that ensued.
And like many, I searched for answers – through psychology, coaching, therapy, self-help, emotional healing and many other approaches.
Over time, I realized something: there are no quick fixes. Real change requires a system of approaches working together (which I wrote about in this Resilience Compass article).
That said, one approach has stood out as profoundly transformative – not just for me, but for many others.
It’s this: learning to talk to yourself, differently.
More specifically, learning to talk from your Self, differently. So, after years of study, practice, and sharing Parts Work with my clients, I felt the need to share it more broadly.
Why I Wrote This Book: A Compassionate Approach to Inner Conflict
In my quest for growth, and let’s face it, relief from suffering, when it came to our inner worlds, several popular approaches I came across framed our internal struggles as enemies to be conquered:
❌ Silence your inner critic!
❌ Destroy your self-doubt!
❌ Conquer your fears!
❌ Defeat your internal enemies!
I just couldn’t stand it anymore!
Because that’s not how healing and growth works.
The critical voices in your head, the patterns you feel stuck in – they are not enemies. They are parts of you. And they’re trying, in their own way, to protect you. But most people don’t realize this.
They don’t realize they are living with their protector parts at the helm and in control:
- The overachiever who never rests
- The people-pleaser who can’t say no
- The perfectionist who fears failure
- The inner critic who whispers, You’ll never be good enough
- The caretaker who sacrifices themselves for others
- The impostor who hides behind achievements
We think this is just “who we are.” But it’s not. These are just parts of us running the show.
And at the root of so many of our internal struggles is a disconnect from Self – our core essence, the Authentic Self.
So, what do we do? If fighting against these parts doesn’t work, what does? That’s where Self Leadership comes in.
Self Leadership is what allows us to shift from being at war with ourselves to being in wise, compassionate leadership of our inner world.
What This Book Offers: A New Way to Relate to Yourself
This book is about solving that disconnect – not by fighting yourself, but by learning to listen, communicate, and lead yourself with heart, with compassion.
✔️ It explains the fundamentals of Self Leadership – the lifelong practice of living and leading from your Authentic Self.
✔️ It teaches Parts Work – how to recognize, understand, and harmonize the different parts of your psyche.
✔️ It includes exercises, dialogue examples, and guided practices to help you start these life-changing inner conversations.
✔️ It helps create safety within your mind, body, and nervous system so you can move beyond fear-driven reactions.
✔️ It shows you how to transform shame, pain, and fear into deeper self-acceptance.
People don’t realize the power of shame and pain as drivers of their limiting beliefs and patterns.
They don’t see how avoiding their inner world only deepens their suffering.
But there is another way.
You can learn to communicate with all your selves, to love them, to lead them, and to treat yourself – and others – with compassionate acceptance.
This book will show you how.
The Struggle You Don’t Know You’re In
Most of us go through life without realizing that we’re not truly in control of our own minds. Our habits, reactions, anxieties, and even our sense of self can be led by unseen forces – protector parts – that work tirelessly to keep us safe (in their old, and now not-so-useful, ways).
If you’ve ever felt like you’re working against yourself – fighting self-doubt, fear, overthinking, or people-pleasing – you’re not alone. The truth is, most of us don’t realize how much of our energy is spent managing unseen fears. But there is another way.
For years, I struggled with confidence, with standing up for myself, with speaking my truth then spiraling into self-doubt and anxiety. No matter how much personal development or coaching I did, certain things just wouldn’t change.
I didn’t understand why.
Until I realized: I wasn’t actually leading my life – among others, my People-Pleasing Part was.
The Moment It Clicked
When I first recognized that my niceness wasn’t entirely authentic, it was a hard truth to face. I wasn’t just a kind person – I was terrified. Deep down, I believed that if I asserted myself – if I said what I wanted or needed – people wouldn’t like it, they’d leave me, and I’d end up alone.
That fear had shaped so much of my way of being – for nearly two decades.
I reached a breaking point: the pain of staying the same was worse than the fear of change. That’s when everything shifted.
When I finally understood that my People-Pleasing Part wasn’t the real me – that it was just a younger, scared part doing its best to protect me – I felt something I hadn’t in years: relief.
I wasn’t broken. I wasn’t weak. I wasn’t failing.
I just had parts of me that were trying to protect me the only way they knew how – and it wasn’t helping anymore.
Once I learned how to talk to that part of me, how to understand it, and how to lead it with my Authentic Self, everything started to shift. My people-pleaser part got a new job – not to keep everyone else happy, but to ensure that my own vulnerable parts were put first.
That shift was liberating. And it’s exactly what I want to share in this book.
What You’ll Gain From This Book
How to Talk Amongst Your Selves is a Beginner’s Guide to Self Leadership – the process of living from your Authentic Self rather than being ruled by fear, anxiety, or old survival patterns.
Through this book, you’ll learn:
- How to build awareness of your inner world – noticing triggers, emotions, and the hidden patterns behind your behaviors.
- How to understand your inner conflicts – those moments when one part of you wants something and another part completely resists.
- How certain wounds and experiences shape the way you think, feel, and act – and how to navigate those patterns with compassion and wisdom.
- How to reconnect with your Self – through powerful exercises that bring more safety, calm, and heart into your system.
This isn’t about fighting or silencing your inner voices.
It’s about listening. Understanding. Accepting. Leading.
Because once you start talking amongst your Selves, you can finally create the inner harmony you’ve been looking for all along.
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You don’t have to keep feeling stuck, torn, or ruled by fear. You can learn to listen, to lead, to live with more love, freedom, and clarity. It starts with one conversation – one moment of turning toward yourself with compassion. This book will show you how.
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Have you ever felt torn between two parts of yourself? What was that like?
Which of the parts mentioned do you recognize in yourself?
Let me know in the comments below.
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