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Altogether You

Experiencing Personal & Spiritual Transformation with Internal Family Systems Therapy

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A compassionate path to emotional and spiritual healing.

Therapist and speaker Jenna Riemersma applies the groundbreaking insights of Internal Family Systems (IFS) for anyone who feels stuck in unwanted feelings and behaviors, with a special focus on personal transformation for readers of faith. 

In Altogether You, she explains why our parts are so often at war-parts of us wanting to please others and do things right while other parts seem bent on acting out, shutting down, or engaging in hurtful behaviors. Jenna explores the surprising IFS insight that our warring parts are actually trying to help us, even when what they’re doing or feeling is not helpful. By genuinely welcoming all our parts and learning how to access our God-created core Self, we can finally experience the change, integration, and wholeness we’ve been looking for.

Dr. Richard Schwartz

Creator of Internal Family Systems (IFS)

“With wit, raw self-disclosure, and engaging writing, Jenna translates my life’s work for Christians… This is a groundbreaking and courageous book.”

Altogether You

Experiencing Personal and Spiritual Transformation with Internal Family Systems Therapy

Altogether You delivers practical, life-affirming counsel from a #1 bestselling author, international speaker and field-leading therapist. Riemersma understands the unique discouragement that people of faith experience when their actions do not line up with their sincere beliefs. With genuine sensitivity to tradition and biblical teachings, she helps readers understand that God is not waiting in frustration on the other side of our “pile of sins” until we “get our act together.” Rather, the God of grace is with us right here, right now in our core imago Dei-the always-accessible starting point for healing.

Riemersma’s book is packed with warm, personal stories and immediately applicable insights. She guides readers through paradigm-altering understandings with helpful definitions and summaries, self-inventories, action steps, and resources.

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Alexia D. Rothman, Ph.D

Certified IFS Therapist and International Lead IFS Trainer

“In this ingenious application of Dr. Richard Schwartz’s transformative Internal Family Systems (IFS) theory to Christianity, Jenna Riemersma illuminates how this secular, psychotherapeutic model offers guidance and specific techniques to facilitate our connection with the Imago Dei, the God Image that resides at our core. This allows us to unleash our innate capacity to hold a powerful, witnessing and healing presence with the wounded and burdened parts of ourselves, as Jesus did with all those he encountered. In her informal, relatable style, and using Scripture as a guide, Jenna insightfully distinguishes between authentic spirituality and the well-intentioned, though often misguided and counterproductive, attempts of our ‘Spiritualizer parts’ to bring us closer to God. In this invitation to move toward and heal our pain, Jenna lays out a path that allows us to stop striving to get to ‘God over There’ and surrender to ‘God in Here.'”

Dr. Ted Roberts

Best-selling Author, and Founder of Pure Desire Ministries International

“Jenna has given the church a great gift! She has taken Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and made it understandable to the typical follower of Christ. Her gift of language and her unique sense of humor invites us to enter into the profound truths of Internal Family Systems cognitively and experientially. This a must-read for anyone interested in bringing much-needed healing to the body of Christ. But above all the book will challenge you to begin to comprehend the complexity of your own soul. It is the best Christian book I have found on the subject!”

Dr. Stefanie Carnes

President of the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP), clinical architect for Willow House at The Meadows, and Author of Courageous Love: A Guide For Couples Conquering Betrayal

“Jenna Riemersma helps readers experience God’s grace and self-compassion through understanding the revolutionary perspective of internal family systems. This instructive guide is a must read for individuals dealing with all types of struggles including addiction, trauma, mental illness and internalized shame. Riemersma’s charming personal stories are intertwined with scripture to make this book both engaging and enlightening.”

Marnie C. Ferree

M.A., LMFT, CSAT Founder & Director, Bethesda Workshops, author of No Stones – Women Redeemed from Sexual Addiction, and Out of the Doghouse for Christian Men

“Too many Christians, including me, have too long been bound by shame regarding the parts of us that are “bad” – the ones we desperately hide from others and hate in ourselves. Finally, there’s a compassionate, Christian-based guide about what to do with the “firefighters” that are only trying to extinguish our pain. Altogether You folds the clinical richness of Internal Family Systems into the graceful truth of the gospel: All parts are welcome! With gentleness, humor, and readability, Jenna Riemersma shows us how to access the God Image within and allow the resulting transformation to lead us home. Hallelujah! Every Christian needs to read Altogether You.”

Dr. Milton S. Magness

Founder and Director of Hope & Freedom Counseling Services; author of Real Hope, True Freedom, Stop Sex Addiction, and Thirty Days to Hope & Freedom from Sexual Addiction.

“Christians take notice. Some have mistakenly thought there was a conflict in psychotherapy, psychology, and our Christian faith. Jenna Riemersma has done a masterful job of helping the reader understand the power of Internal Family Systems by viewing it through the lens of Scripture and faith. This should be the next book you read.”

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I’m so glad you’re here.

As an author, speaker, therapist, and clinical consultant, I’ve spent decades helping people make sense of what feels painful, confusing, and stuck. Together we can find a more compassionate way forward.

My work weaves together clinical insight, spiritual dimensionality, and lived experience to support meaningful change that unfolds over time – without pressure or performance.

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