This book represents [the author's] own variant of the IFS [Internal Family Systems] model as [he has] used it for nearly twenty years in clinical practice, in the classroom with graduate students at Western Michigan University, and in workshops and trainings throughout the United States and Europe. [Here, he shares his] understanding of why we think, feel and act as we do and how we can move toward harmony and balance in our inner and outer lives. -Introd.