by Karoline | Mar 1, 2023 | Dick Schwartz, IFS, Mental Health, Relationships, Social Justice, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality
I was raised to be a good little Christian girl. Independent thinking or rebellion of any kind were suppressed from as early on as I could remember. The rules were clear, and disobedience was punishable not only by a lifetime of blistered flesh in the torture of...
by Karoline | Feb 24, 2023 | Dick Schwartz, IFS, Mental Health, Relationships, Social Justice, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality
I used to have a very grandiose, inflating, “othering” idea of what a “spiritual” person was or wasn’t. Having already rejected the fundamentalist Christianity of my mother’s persuasion, I considered “spiritual” people...
by Lissa Rankin | Feb 23, 2023 | Dick Schwartz, IFS, Mental Health, Relationships, Social Justice, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality
Spiritual bypassing, a phrase coined by John Welwood and defined as a kind of spiritualized conflict avoidance that demonizes certain natural emotions like anger and can cause us to bypass our need for healing trauma, our activism, and our pain, runs rampant in...
by Karoline | Feb 18, 2023 | Dick Schwartz, IFS, Mental Health, Relationships, Social Justice, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality
While finishing my latest book and preparing to teach an online class Spiritual Bypassing Recovery 2.0 as part of releasing that content, I’ve been pondering how spiritual teachings so frequently demonize anger and make us anger-phobic, when anger is the emotion we...
by Nicolay Kreidler | Feb 12, 2023 | Dick Schwartz, IFS, Mental Health, Relationships, Social Justice, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality
Since the chaos of 2020, I have been writing a book I have not yet published, reckoning with the distortions, disinformation, delusional thinking, and downright demonizing of all things scientific, rational, or fact and reality-based from New Agers I had previously...
