by Nicolay Kreidler | Dec 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
My partner Jeff and I are a bit behind the cultural times. While everyone else was binging Ted Lasso during the pandemic, we were busy on the front lines of trying to support a world in crisis — Jeff on the front lines of the mental health epidemic at Harvard, and me...
by Nicolay Kreidler | May 18, 2023 | Dick Schwartz, IFS, Mental Health, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality, Trust, Uncategorized
When I left the church at 18, and then again when I began pulling back from New Age spirituality once I learned about spiritual bypassing and its antidote, Internal Family Systems (IFS), I struggled with what I believed in. Did I believe there was a benevolent...
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 | May 5, 2023 | IFS, Mental Health, Physical Health, Relationships, Sexuality, Social Justice, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality, Trust
Art by Mira Klein I’m preparing to teach a class called Becoming Unfuckwithable: Finding Your Sacred “No” So Your Yes Is A “Hell Yeah,” and as part of creating curriculum for that class, I’ve been pondering what makes people “fuckwithable” in the first place. Part of...
