Trauma Coaching and Addiction Recovery with Achara Tarfa

My guest on today's episode is Achara Tarfa. She is a certified IFS practitioner, co-founder of the Global Trauma Institute, and director of the PATH program. We talk about finding IFS, what trauma coaching offers that therapy often doesn't, and why she and her co-founders built GTI to create the spaces they needed but couldn't find.

Takeaways

• IFS gave Achara language for her own anger for the first time
• When the people you turn to for help fail you, the harm compounds. Achara experienced this firsthand and it shaped everything she built
• Trauma coaching isn't replacing therapy. It's reaching people the system has missed
• Healing isn't just individual. It's about dismantling the systems, cultural, institutional, hierarchical, that created the harm
• PATH meetings use IFS to address addiction and its underlying trauma together
• AA teaches you how to survive; PATH teaches you how to live.
• If you're in protection mode, there's no room to feel. That's not a flaw, it's survival

Catch my extended interview with Achara and our Audio Guides meditations over on Substack.

About Achara

Achara Tarfa is a certified IFS practitioner, co-founder of the Global Trauma Institute, and director of the PATH program. Connect with her on Substack and Instagram.

Episode Sponsor

This episode is sponsored by Souliology.

Souliology offers retreats and immersive learning experiences for IFS professionals, many led by IFS Senior Lead Trainers and eligible for continuing education credits.

Their programs support deep professional and personal growth, offering space to step away from the demands of daily life so you can return to your practice more present and resourced for the clients you serve.

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