Self Led Love with Bahia Miller
Host Bahia Miller uses Internal Family Systems (IFS) to examine how our inner parts affect the ways we love, communicate, and develop in partnerships. The show guides listeners toward greater self-awareness and radical responsibility, aiming to foster more genuine and connected relationships. Episodes blend therapeutic insight with practical tools for personal and relational growth.
Episodes
The Art of Inviting Your Partner to Explore IFS with You
Have you fallen in love with Internal Family Systems and desperately wish your partner would too?Maybe you've experienced more self-awareness, more compassion, and more spaciousness inside yourself through IFS—and naturally want to share that gift with the person you love most. But instead of enthusiasm, you're met with skepticism, defensiveness, or a complete lack of interest.In this ep
Grief, Shame & the Parts That Protect Us – with Tara Minshall
What if the criticism, conflict, shutdown, overthinking, or emotional reactivity in your relationship is actually protecting something much deeper?In this powerful episode of Self Led Love, Bahia sits down with IFS practitioner and grief recovery specialist Tara Minshall for a raw and deeply moving conversation about grief, shame, protectors, attachment wounds, and emotional healing in relationshi
From Power Struggles to Connection: Parenting and Attachment with IFS + The Neufeld Approach
What if the key to raising emotionally healthy, resilient kids isn’t controlling behavior—but deepening connection?In this episode of Self-Led Love, Bahia Miller is joined by parent coach and IFS practitioner Lisa Winer to explore a powerful blend of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and the Neufeld relational developmental approach. Together, they unpack how attachment, emotional safety, and understa
Parts, Patterns and the Sacred Mess: Reflections from IFS Level 3 Training
SELF LED LOVE episode 13 - Reflections from IFS Level 3 TrainingAfter completing the highest level of IFS training available directly from the IFS Institute, Bahia shares what's alive in her after a week of deep immersion — and what she's bringing back to her work with clients and couples.In this episode:- The round table visualization — Rather than asking parts to step back, a practice
Why you keep having the same fight over and over (and how to stop it)
Do you and your partner keep having the same fight on repeat — different topic, same exhausting pattern? In this episode of Self-Led Love, host and certified IFS practitioner Bahia Miller breaks down exactly why couples get stuck in these cycles and offers a three-step framework for finally shifting them.Bahia walks you through the difference between the content of a conflict (what you're fig
Self Led Sexuality 101 – with Patricia Rich
What if your sexual self is already whole and complete? IFS-informed sex therapist Patricia Rich joins host Bahia Miller to explore self-led sexuality, the Six S's framework, internal consent, and how couples — especially parents — can reconnect.If sex feels complicated, confusing, or somewhere you've just stopped going — this episode is for you.This week, Bahia welcomes Patricia Rich, L
How to Have Difficult Conversations — A Self-Led Structure
A Three-Part Framework for Walking Through the Fire with Courage, Clarity & CareIn this solo episode, Bahia Miller offers a practical, parts-informed road map for having the difficult conversations that matter — not to win, not to blame, but to be truly known and to truly know another.Because here's the truth: avoiding the conversation has a cost too. And more often than not, it's a
Speaking FOR Parts – FROM Self
Learning to speak FOR Parts, FROM Self — rather than from a reactive part — can transform the way we communicate in relationships. In this solo episode, Bahia Miller explores the difference between speaking for your parts vs. speaking from your parts, why our impulses to make others change often backfire, and how taking a pause — a U-turn — can help us respond with clarity, compassion, and account
Intimacy Inventory Experiential – Using the 5 P's of IFS
What if you could transform your most important relationships — not through big dramatic changes, but through 1% shifts in how you show up?In this episode, host Bahia Miller leads you through a guided IFS-inspired meditation using the Five Ps of Self Energy: Presence, Patience, Perspective, Playfulness, and Persistence. Like the well-known Eight Cs, these five qualities live within all of us — and
[MEDITATION] Points of Light – Seth Kopald PhD
Join Seth for his signature Points of Light meditation. You will be invited to circulate love and light throughout your whole system between parts + self. This meditation can provide a boost of connection and coherence to your system. Enjoy! About Seth KopaldSeth Kopald, PhD is a certified Level 3 IFS practitioner and presenter, training program assistant for IFS Levels 1, 2, and 3, and a longt
The Team Within: IFS, Attunement, and the Art of Being Understood – with Seth Kopald PhD
What if being truly understood by your partner feels almost identical to being loved? In this rich conversation, host Bahia Miller sits down with Seth Kopald — Certified Level 3 IFS practitioner and author of Self-Led — to explore what it really means to let your inner parts make room for love.Seth and Bahia unpack the subtle but profound shift from parts-driven reactivity to self-led connection i
The #1 Skill for Self-Led Love
Struggling with recurring fights in your relationship? Wondering how to rebuild emotional safety after disconnection?In this episode of Self-Led Love, I break down the most important relationship skill for long-term intimacy: repair.Using a real story from my own marriage (yes, the dinner where I kept interrupting my husband’s storytelling), I model what healthy conflict repair actually looks like
ADHD in Partnership: Untangling Resentment, Shame, and Shared Responsibility — with Dr. Carol Shilliday
ADHD can impact partnerships in all sorts of ways. And without both partners doing the U-Turn to connect with their own parts... resentment builds... and the spark dwindles. In this episode of Self-Led Love, Bahia Miller is joined by Dr. Carol Shilliday—clinical psychologist, IFS assistant trainer, and longtime ADHD specialist—for a grounded, compassionate conversation about how ADHD shows up in
The Parts Detector in Relationships: Managers, Firefighters & Exiles in Action
Understanding how our parts show up in relationships can transform the way we connect with ourselves and our partners. In this solo episode, Bahia Miller breaks down the different types of parts — managers, firefighters, and exiles — and how they influence patterns, conflicts, and intimacy in partnership. She explores the protective roles these parts take on, why they sometimes cause friction, and
Mom Parts (in Partnership) with Jessica Tomich Sorci
Motherhood changes everything — including which parts of us are in the forefront. In this episode, Bahia Miller is joined by Jessica Tomich Sorci for an honest and tender conversation about the profound identity shifts that occur when a woman becomes a mother.Together, they explore the reconfiguration of our inner parts, the emergence of “mom parts,” and the challenging emotions that come with thi
The Gift of Triggers: Healing Relationship Patterns with IFS
Discover how triggers in relationships can actually be gifts for growth. Bahia Miller guides you in noticing your emotional, mental, and physical reactions, turning inward to understand your parts, and practicing curiosity instead of blame. Learn how to pause, reflect, and respond skillfully to build self-sovereignty and healthier connections.Free ResourcesSelf-Led Love Checklist – clarify what’s
How to Save Your Relationship (even if you feel hopeless)
Bahia Miller explores three foundational strategies for approaching the question “Can this relationship be saved?”—especially when things have been hard for a long time.In this episode, you’ll learn about:Why detaching from a specific outcome can restore clarity and choiceHow turning toward your pain (and resentment) reveals powerful inner lessonsWhat it looks like to embody your inner work in rea
Self Led Love Explained: How Internal Family Systems Transforms Relationships
Bahia Miller defines SELF LED LOVE and the importance & nuance of taking responsibility for your parts, building trust with yourself, and showing up consciously in relationships. Learn how noticing and tending to your inner parts can reduce reactivity, deepen connection, and transform relationship cycles. Self-led love is about awareness, repair, and growth—not perfection.Free Resources:Self-L
Welcome to Self Led Love
Bahia Miller introduces Self-Led Love and her mission to support others in learning to meet triggers with compassion, take responsibility for their parts, and build love rooted in self-leadership and emotional intimacy. Free Resources:Self-Led Love Checklist – clarify what’s your work vs. your partner’s work in the relationship: www.bahiamiller.com/checklistUnblending Meditation – slow down after
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