✨ What If Your Inner Critic Is Actually Trying to Help?

... drum roll.... 🧩 June Book Club...

✨ No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz ✨

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📚 JUNE BOOK CLUB ANNOUNCEMENT 📚

After wrapping up Tired As F*ck (and several months of reading our way through some big anti-diet, self compassion, body image, eating disorder, and mental health topics together), I'm excited to announce our next—and final before a summer break—book club pick:

✨ No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz ✨

You've probably heard people talking about:

👉 "Parts work"

👉 Internal Family Systems (IFS)

👉 Inner critics

👉 Protective parts

👉 Healing wounded parts

This book is considered the foundational introduction to IFS and explores the idea that we all have different "parts" of ourselves:

• Parts that protect us

• Parts that carry pain

• Parts that criticize

• Parts that people-please

• Parts that strive and achieve

• Parts that avoid

• Parts that numb

  ... And many more

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Rather than trying to get rid of these parts, Schwartz invites us to understand them with curiosity and compassion.

Whether you're a therapist, healthcare provider, someone on your own healing journey, or simply curious about why you do the things you do, I'm excited to dig into this one together.

It's a smaller book so we are going to read it over 4-5 weeks togehter!

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📖 READING SCHEDULE

Week 1 | June 1–7

Introduction–Chapter 2 (p. ix–48)

Week 2 | June 8–14

Chapters 3–6 (p. 49–106)

☀️ BREAK WEEK ☀️ June 15–21

Week 3 | June 22–28

Chapters 7–9 (p. 107–158)

Week 4 | June 29–July 5

Chapters 10–Conclusion (p. 159–190)

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📚 WHAT DOES THIS WORK OUT TO?

Approximately:

📖 7 pages/day if you're reading daily w the break week

OR

📖 5–6 pages/day if you're spreading it across the full 5 weeks

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📚 HOW BOOK CLUB WORKS

✔ Participation is completely free

✔ Read at your own pace

✔ No quizzes, No deadlines, No pressure to keep up

✔ Weekly discussion posts throughout the month

✔ Comment as much or as little as you'd like

✔ Audiobook listeners welcome/encouraged (I usually do a combo of both!)

✔ Behind on the reading? Join us!

✔ Haven't finished the section? No worries!

✔ Just following along for discussion? Come on in!

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☀️ WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THIS?

I'm planning to take a little summer hiatus from book club and lean into:

☀️ Sunshine

📚 Fiction

🌱 Rest

🏖️ Play

We'll revisit what comes next in the fall, returning to anti-diet, fat liberation, body acceptance, eating disorder recovery, and related non-fiction reads. If you have any books you'd love to dig into with this book club, let me know!

In the meantime, if/as I continue reading non-fiction here and there over the summer, I'll still share book reviews, recommendations, and thoughts along the way.

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I'm so excited for No Bad Parts, lets do this!

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📚 Book acquisition disclaimer:

I fully support borrowing from the library, buying used, sharing with friends, or supporting your local independent bookstore whenever possible. Amazon's impact on small businesses, workers, and communities is... not aligned with my values.

That said, I also recognize that Amazon is often the cheapest, fastest, or most accessible option for many people.

If you do choose to purchase through the affiliate links in this post, I receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. So, while Amazon still gets some of the money (boo), a tiny portion also comes back to support the time and energy that goes into running this book club (yay) ❤️