“ If you are violent inside yourself then you will be violent outside. If you are critical to your self, then you will be critical to others.” R. Schwartz Using the same logic, love yourself and you will love others. It is always pleasing to me when I can overlap a Western psychotherapy model with a Chinese medical model. Richard Schwartz unpacks the concepts of multiple parts within each person, by inviting them to dialogue with the adult within, to restore health to the system of the Self (with a capital S). In Chinese medicine there are similar theories, one we call the Shen (with a capital S). Shen is the greater consciousness and each individual is a mirror of the holographic system. Little shen is a representation of the state of trauma within the heart space, in a human body. If the little shen is disrupted then there will…