Follow-up: I continued working on this issue using the approach that you outlined here. Eventually I figured out that the sense of urgency wasn’t so much “I won’t have the time to get enough work done” but rather “I won’t have the time to get enough work done and then relax properly after that”. (There might have been some other schemas which were using the sense of urgency too, which got reconsolidated during the process.) After figuring that out, I haven’t had a major issue with it.
Since that was an issue that IFS etc. had failed to make a dent on for years, I then started throwing The Work/Coherence Therapy/my-model-of-your-model-as-interpreted-through-your-public-writing on a lot of other things too, and have made varying amounts of progress on at least twelve of them. Agree with you more on the weaknesses of IFS now.
Follow-up: I continued working on this issue using the approach that you outlined here. Eventually I figured out that the sense of urgency wasn’t so much “I won’t have the time to get enough work done” but rather “I won’t have the time to get enough work done and then relax properly after that”. (There might have been some other schemas which were using the sense of urgency too, which got reconsolidated during the process.) After figuring that out, I haven’t had a major issue with it.
Since that was an issue that IFS etc. had failed to make a dent on for years, I then started throwing The Work/Coherence Therapy/my-model-of-your-model-as-interpreted-through-your-public-writing on a lot of other things too, and have made varying amounts of progress on at least twelve of them. Agree with you more on the weaknesses of IFS now.