Life seeks to create life. Our lives are aimed at finding or creating safety from the moment we are born. The mechanisms by which we seek safety are developed at an early age. In Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dr. Richard Schwartz espoused that we are made up of “parts” that are sub-personalities designed to keep us safe. It is a profound shift to realize that the burdens and limiting beliefs we carry were ultimately formed to keep us safe. When our protective parts relax, when we can be our Self in its highest, we feel great peace and Oneness with the Self of others. Thus, the journey of consciousness is to love all of our parts because they are all part of who we are.