You have multiple personalities.

I'll prove it.

I need you to know something: You are made up of complex parts. I don’t know how many, but a lot of them.

Maybe for some of you, that seems obvious. But I think it’s one of those things where you can quickly agree with it, but then not really understand it. So today I’m going to explain it. And then I’m going to offer a challenge that may sound simple, but it’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. Truly.

In my adventure as the “Christian Alcoholic”—that is, the Christian who became an alcoholic, not the other way around—there have been a lot of tools that Jesus has used to point me back to him. One of those, though, has been especially helpful. It’s called “parts work.”

Parts work is the simple explanation for a type of therapy called Internal Family Systems.¹ Can I be honest with you? When my therapist first mentioned this type of therapy I thought it was a little cooky. And that’s saying something since I had just done months of another type of therapy where I held vibra…