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...
by Karoline | May 5, 2023 | Dick Schwartz, IFS, Mental Health, Relationships, Social Justice, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality
Last month’s Conspirituality podcast shared stories of “spiritual heartbreak.” Listening to those stories left me in tears, not just tears of empathy for the spiritually heartbroken who were exploited when they dared to trust, but for my own parts that have been...
by Karoline | Apr 30, 2023 | Dick Schwartz, IFS, Mental Health, Relationships, Social Justice, Spiritual Bypassing, Spirituality
When I first got involved with Internal Family Systems (IFS) a decade ago, I did not expect it to wind up being a spiritual path. I started practicing IFS for the reason most people do- as a way to deal with untreated trauma and as an antidote to the spiritual...
