
All Parts Welcome
The Queer and Trans Internal Family Systems Workbook
Sand C. Chang(Author)
New Harbinger Publications (Publisher)
Published on 28. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-64848-528-2 (ISBN)
Description
Embrace your authentic self, heal emotional pain and trauma, and build meaningful connections while honoring the complexity of your identity and experiences.
If you are queer or transgender, you may feel like you have to hide certain aspects of yourself, both physically and mentally, in order to "blend into" society. You may even feel ashamed of your differences, due to a history of judgment or rejection from others. You aren't alone. Many queer and trans people feel disconnected from their authentic selves, or have internalized negative beliefs about what it means to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary-or anything that deviates from our culture's expectations regarding gender or sexual expression. So, how can you fully embrace the beauty of who you are?
All Parts Welcome offers skills grounded in internal family systems (IFS) therapy to help you build self-compassion, strength, and resilience as you reconnect with, reclaim, and befriend the parts of yourself you've lost touch with. The concept of multiplicity in IFS will show you how to honor all parts of your identity-such as race, ethnicity, religion, class, and ability-and help you gain a greater understanding of how these parts intersect with your sexuality or gender expression.
This workbook will help you:
?Heal the pain of rejection-including rejection from your family
?Honor the coping mechanisms that have helped you survive
?Identify what matters to you
?Set boundaries with others
?Build community and meaningful connection
?Boost your mental health
IFS, at its core, is about inclusion and belonging-about making space for the complexity of our identities and experiences, including both the challenging and joyful ones. If you're ready to celebrate all of the parts that make you you, this workbook can help you get started.
If you are queer or transgender, you may feel like you have to hide certain aspects of yourself, both physically and mentally, in order to "blend into" society. You may even feel ashamed of your differences, due to a history of judgment or rejection from others. You aren't alone. Many queer and trans people feel disconnected from their authentic selves, or have internalized negative beliefs about what it means to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary-or anything that deviates from our culture's expectations regarding gender or sexual expression. So, how can you fully embrace the beauty of who you are?
All Parts Welcome offers skills grounded in internal family systems (IFS) therapy to help you build self-compassion, strength, and resilience as you reconnect with, reclaim, and befriend the parts of yourself you've lost touch with. The concept of multiplicity in IFS will show you how to honor all parts of your identity-such as race, ethnicity, religion, class, and ability-and help you gain a greater understanding of how these parts intersect with your sexuality or gender expression.
This workbook will help you:
?Heal the pain of rejection-including rejection from your family
?Honor the coping mechanisms that have helped you survive
?Identify what matters to you
?Set boundaries with others
?Build community and meaningful connection
?Boost your mental health
IFS, at its core, is about inclusion and belonging-about making space for the complexity of our identities and experiences, including both the challenging and joyful ones. If you're ready to celebrate all of the parts that make you you, this workbook can help you get started.
Reviews / Votes
I'm so grateful to internal family systems (IFS) trainer Sand C. Chang for writing this book. It so skillfully applies my life's work to the queer and trans community, a group that, traditionally and particularly lately, contains some of the more persecuted exiles in our culture. I not only highly recommend it as a potent workbook for that community, but also for anyone who wants to better understand and/or help them. * Richard Schwartz, PhD, developer of the IFS model * I love this workbook! It's a gentle, accessible, and nuanced guide to working with one's internal parts, specifically for queer and trans people. Sand C. Chang encourages the reader to welcome all parts-making room for the tender ones inside that may have been marginalized, dismissed, or denigrated by the heteronormative world. What a beautiful gift to us and to the field of IFS. * Colleen West, LMFT, IFS consultant, and author of We All Have Parts and The IFS Flip Chart * Without exaggeration, this workbook is immediately indispensable! Sand C. Chang gently guides queer and trans readers into a calm and compassionate IFS practice space. Their personal illustrations, captivating reflection questions, innovative worksheets, and courageous meditations amplify our inner wisdom. Chang invites us into embracing our unique inner ecosystems while centering collective care. This book is a bright star illuminating how we may become more skillful at radical belonging. * Ash(ley) Gregory, LMFT, (she/her), queer psychotherapist and proud Queer and Trans Internal Family System (QTIFS) teaching assistant who transforms shamefulness into spaciousness with curiosity, playfulness, and hope *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oakland, CA
United States
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 205 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64848-528-2 (9781648485282)
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Sand C. Chang, PhD (they/them) is a Chinese American nonbinary, queer, and neurodivergent clinical psychologist, DEI consultant, and somatic psychotherapist based in California. Sand has more than 20 years of experience working at the intersections of trans health, eating disorders, trauma recovery, and body liberation. They are a Level 3 certified IFS therapist, IFS Institute assistant trainer and approved consultant, certified Body Trust provider, and cofounder of Queer and Trans Internal Family Systems (QTIFS). Learn more about Sand at sandchang.com.