The Parts Whisperer
A Podcast by Patricia Ogden
A parts whisperer is someone who embraces the truth that nothing needs to be banished. Who has sat in their own darkness long enough to know it carries wisdom. And who holds space for others to do the same — with curiosity, with deep respect, and with a love that says: you can come home now.
There are many of us. This podcast is our gathering place.
Real sessions. Real healing.
Somewhere inside you... there's a part that's exhausted ... a part that just wants relief... and a part that yearns to finally belong — to come home to you.
What if the very thing you are avoiding… is the path to healing?
Hosted by Patricia Ogden — IFS Level 3 practitioner, mom of six, and someone who has walked through her own inner wilderness and found something real on the other side.
The Parts Whisperer is a podcast unlike anything else in the healing space. Every other week, host Patricia Ogden — IFS Level 3 practitioner — sits with a courageous guest for a real, live Internal Family Systems session. No script. No performance. Just a genuine, tender exploration of what's going on inside.
In between sessions, Patricia shares psycho-education, interviews other Parts Whisperers, and listener Q&As — making IFS accessible, practical, and deeply human.
Whether you're healing from trauma, navigating addiction, untangling difficult relationships, or simply feeling like something inside you needs to feel loved and seen — this podcast was made for you.
Your true self is not broken and never can be damaged. Your parts are your greatest allies in your quest for healing and harmony. They are the path to healing.
Three kinds of episodes. One healing space.
The Parts Whisperer alternates between two formats-giving you time to sit with what lands before the next one arrives. Each episode is an invitation to witness healing or to receive it yourself.
Week A ~ The session
Live IFS with a courageous guest
A real person. A real session. Unscripted and unfiltered. Patricia guides each guest gently through their inner world — and you get to witness the moment everything shifts.
45—70 minutes ~ Live session + debrief
Week B ~ The Wisdom
Other parts whisperers and Q & A
Conversations with other Parts Whisperers, their stories, and wisdom and answers to your most pressing questions about IFS.
20-60 minutes ~ Rotating format
Monthly ~ Going inside
Patricia’s own Self-led session
Once a month Patricia goes inside herself-live narrated, no facilitator. A window into what becomes possible after sustained healing work. Self as healer.
30-40 minutes ~ self led IFS
Why this podcast exists
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 of life and consciousness.
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
Feel called to sit in the chair yourself? Learn more about being a guest →
Have a question for The Parts Whisperer?
There are no wrong questions here. Every part of you that feels curious is welcome.
Prefer to write directly? Reach Patricia at insideouthealingspace@gmail.com