Your Inner-Artist
In Episode 93, we’re talking with Brittany Turner Purvis, a licensed clinical social worker and IFS-trained coach who’s helping women explore their inner tensions and drives as a path toward self-compassion and understanding. We’ll talk about what it means to honor your creativity as part of your identity, how Internal Family Systems can offer insight and compassion when you're feeling stuck, and how to make space for your voice—even when time feels scarce.
Bio: Brittany Turner Purvis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who has specialized in working with children and families for the past 20 years. She also held the esteemed title of a SAHM for her younger two children. She counts those years as "field work for Positive Parenting" as she truly understands, at a molecular level, what it feels like to have her buttons triggered by a small human being. She currently works as a Parent Coach, helping parents navigate their unique parenting journey, creating connected relationships with their children, even in the midst of the struggle.
Through the lens of the Internal Family Systems model, Brittany loves to guide Mothers in accessing their own inner wisdom, a reservoir of compassion, curiosity, and creativity. She helps Mothers learn how to tune into their own thoughts, feelings, emotions and sensations, listening and nurturing the parts of themselves calling for attention, sending messages of love and acceptance to re-parent old wounds, and ultimately deepening the relationship they have with themselves.
Contact Brittany through her website: parentingwithbrittanyjoy.com or by email: parentingwithbrittanyjoy@gmail.com.
Links:
A free guided meditation from Brittany—Get to Know Creativity
Poem: Walt Witman, “Song of Myself
Book: No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with Internal Family Systems, by Richard Schwartz, PhD.
Book: Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron.
Podcast: “All Part Welcome-Richard Schwartz, PhD and Elizabeth Gilbert: Creativity and Internal Family Systems.” (16 minutes).
Book: IFS Daily Parts Journal, by Kylie Feller.
Meditation: VOICE NOTE sent to Adrie, read by Brittany Turner Purvis called “Getting to Know Your Creativity.” This meditation is an adaptation of an exercise presented by Michelle Lepack during “Integrating Presence Psychotherapy with IFS” at the IFS Institute Annual Conference, Dec 2024. (11:40 minutes)
Contact info: Brittany Turner Purvis, MSW, LCSW can be reached through her website: parentingwithbrittanyjoy.com or by email: parentingwithbrittanyjoy@gmail.com. Brittany offers a free 45-minute consultation to all parents as part of her mission work. She enjoys connecting parents to resources and supporting them on their unique parenting journey. She is also pleased to extend a free 45-minute consultation to any Exhale member who is interested in learning more about IFS and Creativity.
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