by Karoline | Oct 10, 2025 | Healing, IFS, Trust, Uncategorized
For many of us on a healing journey or a spiritual path, the pursuit of peace, love, and transcendence has been both a refuge and a compass. Practices like meditation, prayer, yoga, reading spiritual books, going to spiritual retreats, or chanting mantras or positive...
by Karoline | Oct 7, 2025 | Creativity, Healing, IFS, Muse, Spirituality
Like almost everyone else I know, I loved Liz Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love. I read it right after I blew up my own life by quitting my stable job as a doctor to pursue an unknown life of God knows what, and I wanted to be Liz Gilbert. I hadn’t published any books of my...
by Karoline | Sep 25, 2025 | Dick Schwartz, Healing, IFS, Relationships
In 2019 at the IFS conference in Denver where I taught a workshop with Dick Schwartz about using IFS for treatment of medical conditions, I saw a keynote presentation by Hailan Guo, MD, PhD, who was described to me as “The Oprah of China.” She’s a medical doctor who...
by Karoline | Sep 23, 2025 | Social Justice
I haven’t written about politics for a while, not because people send me hate mail and unsubscribe from my newsletter list every time I do, not because I lose money in my business from losing those customers and readers, but because I, one of the most verbose writers...
by Karoline | Sep 19, 2025 | Dick Schwartz, IFS, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality
When I first learned about the idea of “spiritual bypassing,” it was shattering to my parts. I felt busted, lost, ashamed, scared, embarrassed, and deflated. Here I thought I was an advanced spiritual being, capable of loving even the most intolerable asshats on the...
