Why parts develop

• Card 1

  Parts tend to take on their roles at moments when something was needed and unavailable — safety, comfort, predictability, permission to feel. The role that formed then often keeps running long after the circumstances change.

• Card 2

  A common sequence

  1. 1Something overwhelming happensOften repeatedly, often young.
  2. 2A feeling has nowhere safe to goSo it is set aside.
  3. 3A part takes on a jobWatch, perfect, please, numb, disappear.
  4. 4The job worksWhich is exactly why it stays.
  5. 5Life changes; the job does notThe pattern arrives in situations that no longer need it.

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