For those ready to step forward, lead themselves first, and become an example of what's possible.
Part of you wants connection. Another part keeps people at arm's length. Part of you wants to show up fully in your life. Another part is exhausted and just wants to disappear. Part of you knows you're enough. Another part has been running on the quiet certainty that you're not.
That's not contradiction. That's not weakness. That's what it means to be human.
Most self-help tells you to silence the hard parts. Push through them. Transcend them. But what if those parts aren't the enemy? What if the anxious part, the angry part, the part that shuts down, what if every single one of them developed for a reason?
The work isn't to get rid of the parts you don't like. The work is to integrate all of you.
You're carrying something heavy.
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You sit with people in pain.
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You lead. And it costs you.
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You're raising little people.
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For those ready to step forward, lead themselves first, and become an example of what's possible.
You're carrying something heavy.
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You sit with people in pain.
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You lead. And it costs you.
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You're raising little people.
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Real change
Doesn’t come from fixing yourself.
It comes from understanding what’s been protecting you.
People often struggle to change their habits or patterns because they don’t understand where those patterns come from. What seems like “self-sabotage” is actually a protective response from past experiences that weren’t fully processed. Real, lasting change doesn’t come from forcing yourself to change it happens when you understand, accept, and integrate those parts of yourself so they no longer need to protect you in the same way.
Brené Brown
The book
All of You
HOW TO HEAL YOUR WOUNDED PARTS, RELEASE SHAME and End the War Within
This is not a self-help book that tells you who to become. It's a book about all of who you are, and why every part of you deserves to be seen, not fixed.
All of You draws on Internal Family Systems, John Bradshaw's inner child work, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and somatic trauma research to give you a framework that actually works at the level where the wounds live.
The book
HOW TO HEAL YOUR WOUNDED PARTS, RELEASE SHAME and End the War Within
This is not a self-help book that tells you who to become. It's a book about all of who you are, and why every part of you deserves to be seen, not fixed.
All of You draws on Internal Family Systems, John Bradshaw's inner child work, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and somatic trauma research to give you a framework that actually works at the level where the wounds live.
The community
Home of Root
Cause Coaching
You don't have to do this work alone.
The All of You Home is a free community for people who are serious about integration, not performance. A space built around honesty, growth, and the kind of connection that's only possible when people stop pretending.
When you join, you get access to a free mini course to get you started, plus live classes where we go deeper together. Real teaching. Real conversation. Not pre-recorded content you'll never finish.
The community
The Home of Root Cause Coaching
You don't have to do this work alone.
The All of You Home is a free community for people who are serious about integration, not performance. A space built around honesty, growth, and the kind of connection that's only possible when people stop pretending.
When you join, you get access to a free mini course to get you started, plus live classes where we go deeper together. Real teaching. Real conversation. Not pre-recorded content you'll never finish.
The certification
Integrated
Self Dynamics
For coaches who want to go deeper.
Most coaching frameworks stay at the surface. They help clients set goals, shift thinking, take action. And those things matter.
But what about the client who keeps self-sabotaging? The one who knows what to do and still can't do it? The one who makes progress and then, quietly, undoes it?
That's a parts problem. And if you don't have a framework for working at that level, you're limited in how far you can take someone.
Integrated Self Dynamics gives coaches the language, the tools, and the clinical roadmap to work with fragmented parts, developmental wounds, and the somatic patterns that keep clients stuck.
The certification
Integrated
Self Dynamics
For coaches who want to go deeper.
Most coaching frameworks stay at the surface. They help clients set goals, shift thinking, take action. And those things matter.
But what about the client who keeps self-sabotaging? The one who knows what to do and still can't do it? The one who makes progress and then, quietly, undoes it?
That's a parts problem. And if you don't have a framework for working at that level, you're limited in how far you can take someone.
Integrated Self Dynamics gives coaches the language, the tools, and the clinical roadmap to work with fragmented parts, developmental wounds, and the somatic patterns that keep clients stuck.
I'm a coach,
educator,
and the
creator of
Hey, nice to meet you
I'm Matt Lavars
I didn't come to this work because I had it figured out. I came to it because I was a high-functioning mess. I had the career, the family, the external markers of a life that was working. And underneath all of it, I was running, from parts of myself I didn't know how to face.
What changed everything wasn't another strategy. It was a framework that finally helped me stop fighting myself and start understanding myself.
That framework is what this whole body of work is built on. And it's for anyone who is done managing symptoms and ready to do the actual work.
Hey, nice to meet you
Hey, nice to meet you
I'm Matt Lavars
I didn't come to this work because I had it figured out. I came to it because I was a high-functioning mess. I had the career, the family, the external markers of a life that was working. And underneath all of it, I was running, from parts of myself I didn't know how to face.
What changed everything wasn't another strategy. It was a framework that finally helped me stop fighting myself and start understanding myself.
That framework is what this whole body of work is built on. And it's for anyone who is done managing symptoms and ready to do the actual work.
What we believe
Our mission
We believe most people are carrying more than they should have to carry alone. Parts of themselves they were taught to hide, silence, or outrun. And somewhere along the way, the war inside got so loud that the life they actually wanted started to feel out of reach.
We want to help you end that war.
Not by fixing the parts you don't like. Not by becoming a better version of yourself. But by turning toward all of you — with honesty, with curiosity, and with the kind of compassion most of us were never shown growing up.
We do that through books, live teaching, community, and a coaching certification that trains practitioners to go to the places most frameworks never reach. Because we believe the world changes when people stop being at war with themselves. Relationships deepen. Families heal. Children grow up in homes where all of them is welcome.
The ripple goes further than any of us can track.
That's what this is for. Every resource, every class, every conversation. All of it — for all of you.
What we believe
Our mission
We believe most people are carrying more than they should have to carry alone. Parts of themselves they were taught to hide, silence, or outrun. And somewhere along the way, the war inside got so loud that the life they actually wanted started to feel out of reach.
We want to help you end that war.
Not by fixing the parts you don't like. Not by becoming a better version of yourself. But by turning toward all of you — with honesty, with curiosity, and with the kind of compassion most of us were never shown growing up.
We do that through books, live teaching, community, and a coaching certification that trains practitioners to go to the places most frameworks never reach. Because we believe the world changes when people stop being at war with themselves. Relationships deepen. Families heal. Children grow up in homes where all of them is welcome.
The ripple goes further than any of us can track. That's what this is for. Every resource, every class, every conversation. All of it, for all of you.
Listen to the
All of You podcast
The All of You podcast and YouTube channel are where the conversation keeps going. Real conversations about parts work, shame resilience, attachment, relationships, and what integration actually looks like in the ordinary moments of a real life.
No performance. No highlight reels. Just honest, grounded conversation.
Listen on...
Listen to the
The All of You podcast and YouTube channel are where the conversation keeps going. Real conversations about parts work, shame resilience, attachment, relationships, and what integration actually looks like in the ordinary moments of a real life.
No performance. No highlight reels. Just honest, grounded conversation.
Listen on...
