The Parts Whisperer is the podcast where real people step into the healing space..

So much of what we're taught about healing gets it backwards.

We're told that joy, peace, and love are the destination — and that rage, grief, hurt, and fear are obstacles to get past.

But what if that's the very thing keeping us stuck?

What if ALL emotions are sacred — valuable in their context, carrying deep wisdom — and the real healing begins when we stop trying to banish the ones that make us uncomfortable?

Because here's what I know to be true:

If we exile our negative emotions, we exile ourselves from the positive ones as well.

They are not separate. They are all part of the human experience. All of them belong inside the circle.

This is where I have found true joy and healing — in fully and completely embracing what it means to be human. Only then do I know nothing is hiding in the corners of my soul. And if something is... I am patient and loving until it feels the safety of my love and comes out to meet me.

Only then — by coming into the light of that love — can the darkness finally find the home and warmth it has been searching for so long.

This is parts work. This is The Parts Whisperer.

—Patricia Ogden