Healing doesn’t come from fixing yourself.

It comes from understanding yourself.

Not just the polished parts but the scared ones, the striving ones, the parts we hide to survive.

This week’s guest, Sarah Jones, is a storyteller, artist, and activist known for her fearless exploration of identity. But this conversation isn’t just about identity in the outer world, it’s about the stories we carry inside, and the compassion it takes to hold them with care.

Raised in a racially and culturally mixed household, Sarah unpacks what it means to belong to many worlds and sometimes feel at home in none. Through humor, vulnerability, and incredible emotional depth, she shares how the practice of Internal Family Systems (IFS) helped her name, understand, and begin to heal her inner landscape.

We explore:

Why perfectionism is often just pain in disguise
What it means to live with “multiple parts” and how to listen to them
The link between emotional safety and self-worth
How addiction, self-abandonment, and survival can mask our basic goodness
And the healing power of play, creativity, and radical curiosity

Sarah reminds us that real self-love isn’t about declarations it’s about attention. Tending to the parts of us that didn’t get to speak, and learning to meet them with kindness.