The Grief of Long-Term COVID Caution: How IFS Helps Us Honor All Our Parts' Experiences
At Perceptive Insights Psychological Services, we use Internal Family Systems Theory (IFS), which offers a framework for holding the complex grief of remaining covid cautious in a world that has moved on with compassion—honoring the parts carrying different aspects of loss while maintaining the boundaries that keep you safe.
Finding Your People: IFS and the Search for Community as a COVID-Cautious, Childfree Woman
Finding your people as a COVID-cautious, childfree woman isn't easy. There's a real cost to living outside multiple norms simultaneously. The isolation is real. The searching is real. The grief about not fitting neatly into existing structures is real.
But many women also discover that this search, while painful, has led them to communities they wouldn't have found otherwise. Communities built on genuine connection rather than circumstance. Communities that honor complexity and autonomy. Communities where they can finally be fully seen.
When Your Parts Are in Conflict About COVID Precautions: Using IFS to Find Internal Alignment
If you're still taking COVID precautions in 2025, you've likely experienced intense internal conflict. One part of you desperately wants to attend that wedding, hug your friends, or eat inside a restaurant. Another part feels terror at the thought, scanning for risk and pulling you back to safety. These warring parts can leave you feeling paralyzed, exhausted, and disconnected from your sense of Self.