Closing the Gap - Part 2

January 22, 2025 – In this second part of the podcast Closing the Gap, Kacey Montgomery and I continued the conversation around Internal Family Systems, parts, the STEM fields, and dive further into the concept of Self Energy. Closing the Gap is a podcast that addresses the barriers and challenges for young women entering academic and professional fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics typically populated by men.

Using some examples, we explore the following: 

• What is the connection between Self Energy and the states of our emotions and nervous systems? 

• How do parts and Self Energy affect our interactions? 

• How can teachers identify when their students have parts that are activated? 

• What do we do when the young people in our lives have been triggered? 

• Why is it important to allow for failure?

• What does it mean to allow our young people to wander into and through their academics and careers? 

It was another marvelous conversation with Kacey. I hope you enjoy it.

Photo by: Alder