by Karoline | May 16, 2023 | IFS, Mental Health, Physical Health, Relationships, Sexuality, Social Justice, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality, Trust
Like many women- and like many children of both genders who grew up in religious upbringings- I was raised to be a good, nice, accommodating, compliant, sweet girl who was pleasing to authority figures and didn’t cause any trouble for teachers, pastors, or my...
by Karoline | May 10, 2023 | IFS, Mental Health, Physical Health, Relationships, Sexuality, Social Justice, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality, Trust
Right now, I’m sitting on the South Aegean Sea in Kos, Greece, where I was invited to help a group of German doctors renew their Hippocratic Oaths at the Asklepieion temple where Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, started a famous healing temple and his...
by Karoline | Feb 15, 2023 | IFS, Mental Health, Relationships
Since the Trump era, there’s been a nationwide renaissance in public discourse about malignant narcissism, and many of us have taken off our spiritual bypassing, rose-colored glasses to spot the dangers of trying to relate with people who are very blended with...
by Karoline | Feb 9, 2023 | Mental Health, Relationships, Trust
People with relational trauma often have trust issues, and they can be a beast to deal with if you’re someone new in their life. People with a heavy trauma burden often have upside down compasses when it comes to knowing who to trust. Either they’re...
by Lissa Rankin | Jan 9, 2014 | Relationships
Because I put myself out there in public ways, I’m subjected to a LOT of criticism, both on the internet and in person. Some of it is the kind of vicious, violent hating that cowards love to spout amidst the safety of being anonymous on the internet. Some of it is...
