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...
by Nicolay Kreidler | Jan 14, 2023 | Creativity, Healing, IFS, Medicine, Mental Health, Spirituality, Trust
Why We Need Our Trauma Stories Validated (When Abusers So Often Minimize, Deny & Gaslight) In spite of every pretzeling attempt his child self made to be obedient to abusive fundamentalist parents growing up, my partner Jeff’s family shunned him, making up a...
