Jenna Riemersma - Altogether You: Experiencing personal and spiritual transformation with Internal Family Systems therapy

Jenna Riemersma is a gifted counselor and a dynamic teacher and communicator. This book will challenge, inform, and encourage you on the courageous journey to know yourself and more deeply experience the love of God. It is practical, accessible, and profound, and will help you love yourself and your neighbor more authentically and wholly than ever before.

ROB GIBSON, PSAP; executive director, The Cross Ministry Group, Denver, Colorado

Jenna Riemersma helps readers experience both self-compassion and Gods grace through the revolutionary perspective of Internal Family Systems therapy. This instructive guide is a must-read for individuals struggling with addiction, trauma, mental illness, or internalized shame. Jennas charming personal stories are intertwined with scripture to make this book both engaging and enlightening.

STEFANIE CARNES, PhD; president, International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals, Wickenburg, Arizona; clinical architect, Willow House at The Meadows, Carefree, Arizona; author of Courageous Love: A Guide for Couples Conquering Betrayal

Jenna has given the evangelical 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 lively sense of humor invite us to enter into the profound truths of Internal Family Systems. This a must-read for anyone interested in bringing much-needed healing to the body of Christ. Above all the book will help you to begin to comprehend the complexity of your own soul. As a sexual addiction counselor for over thirty years in the church, I have seen at close range the devastation that takes place when we are not acquainted with our own brokenness. And I have seen the IFS approach to be an incredibly effective method in helping people find the healing they have sought, sometimes for decades. The only problem I have with the book is that I didnt write it. Jenna has done an exquisite job! Altogether You is the best Christian book I have found on the subject.

TED ROBERTS, DMin; best-selling author; founder of Pure Desire Ministries International, Gresham, Oregon

Too many Christians, including me, have been bound by shame regarding the parts of us that are badthe parts we desperately hide from others and hate in ourselves. Finally, we have a compassionate, Christian-based guide about what to do with our firefighters parts 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 this book.

MARNIE C. FERREE, LMFT, CSAT; founder and director, Bethesda Workshops, Nashville, Tennessee; author of No Stones: Women Redeemed from Sexual Addiction

Altogether You is a beautiful and practical commentary on Gods love and his relational nature imprinted on every human. In this book I heard the gentle invitation to agree with God about all of the parts of me, not just some parts. Jenna Riemersma is an expert who writes like a friend as she brilliantly guides us on the journey of Self-leadership, moving toward a place where all parts are welcome. This book will give you a theology and a psychology for both the ordinary and extraordinary circumstances of your life.

CLIFTON ROTH, PSAP; executive director of CrossPoint Ministry, Louisville, Kentucky

If you are struggling to make sense of yourself, if you feel like you dont know who you are, if you want to reclaim your true self, READ THIS BOOK! Altogether You is a book I will be recommending for my clients, and I highly recommend it to anybody who wants to understand who they really are.

DR. KEVIN SKINNER, PhD, LMFT; cofounder and clinical director, Addo Recovery, Lindon, Utah; author of Treating Trauma from Sexual Betrayal, Treating Pornography Addiction,
and Treating Sexual Addiction

Psychological concepts and theological constructs unite in Jennas readable, relatable book. Grounded in scripture, Altogether You is an accessible introduction to Richard Schwartzs Internal Family Systems theory for any Christian reader experiencing emotional pain. And for anyone holding on to the idea that you are somehow flawed or permanently broken, Jenna will expertly help you to gently let go and come home.

KELLY MCDANIEL, LPC, NCC, CSAT, Nashville, Tennessee; author of Ready to Heal: Breaking Free of Addictive Relationships

Jenna Riemersma has expert knowledge of Internal Family Systems theory. In Altogether You, she teaches it experientially like nobody else canand more importantly, she lives it. She brings those resources together into a synergistic choreography that is both professionally and personally impactful.

ADRIAN HICKMAN, PhD, LMFT, LPC; founder and CEO, Capstone Treatment Center, Judsonia, Arkansas

In this ingenious application of Dr. Richard Schwartzs transformative Internal Family Systems theory to Christianity, Jenna Riemersma illuminates how this secular psychotherapeutic model offers specific techniques to facilitate our connection with the Imago Dei 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, 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.

ALEXIA D. ROTHMAN, PhD; certified IFS therapist and international IFS speaker/educator, Atlanta, Georgia

Christians, take notice. Some have mistakenly thought there was a conflict in psychotherapy, psychology, and our 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.

MILTON S. MAGNESS, PhD, LPC, CSAT; founder and director, Hope & Freedom Counseling Services, Houston, Texas; author of Thirty Days to Hope & Freedom from Sexual Addiction, Stop Sex Addiction, and Real Hope, True Freedom

In her book, Altogether You, Jenna Riemersma has masterfully woven together Internal Family Systems therapy and numerous principles of spiritual transformation to forge an essential framework for better understanding who we are, why we do what we do, and what we need in order to flourish in life and in relationships. To anyone who wants to integrate their personal faith in Christ into the process of healing, growth, and personal discovery, this book is most certainly for you.

TODD BOWMAN, PhD, LCPC, CSAT-C; director, SATP Institute, Olathe, Kansas; associate professor of counseling, Indiana Wesleyan University; author of Angry Birds and Killer Bees: Talking to Your Kids About Sex; editor of Reclaiming Sexual Wholeness

As I read Altogether You, I often reflected that the words healing, whole, and holy all come from the same Latin root meaning essentially to become complete and entire. Riemersma eloquently helps us understand how Christians become stuck in our incompleteness, but she also provides a map to return us to our natural state of living in communion, fully receiving the love and grace of God.