Everything IFS Blog

Explore this free Brainspotting course from IFS Academy, written in plain language for everyday people. Learn what Brainspotting is, how fixed eye position connects to the nervous system, and how the course covers setup, locating techniques, the Resource Model, therapist stance, specialty applications, and daily practice.

This free course explores the Book of James as a call to lived, embodied faith shaped through endurance, action, humility, and prayer. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it invites honest engagement with Scripture where belief meets daily life.

This free course explores the Ashtavakra Gita as a radical teaching on freedom, misidentification, and the end of spiritual striving. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it invites clear seeing without turning non-duality into psychology.

This free course explores the Corpus Hermeticum as a foundational work of Western metaphysics focused on Mind, reality, and awakening. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it offers a slow, contemplative way to engage Hermetic wisdom without turning it into psychology.

This free course explores the Lord’s Prayer as a formative path into belonging, trust, forgiveness, and daily dependence. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it invites prayer as lived relationship rather than recitation.

A complete fourteen-module course on candle magic from the candle types and the color system through carving, dressing, petition writing, timing, reading the flame and the smoke and the wax, sustained work, figure candles, and designing workings for love, prosperity, protection, healing, cleansing, communication, release, and road-opening.

A free folk protection course grounded in Internal Family Systems, teaching how protection magic functions across cultures as a system of boundary-setting, warding, and psychological containment through everyday practices, symbols, and environments.

This free course explores the Enneagram as a system for understanding motivation rather than behavior. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it offers a grounded approach to the nine types without simplification or pressure to type.

This free course explores the Seven Rays as fundamental streams of consciousness shaping psychology, spirituality, and human development. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it offers a grounded way to understand these forces without turning them into labels.

This free course explores the women of the Bible as central figures in Scripture, revealing faith, agency, and complexity across the biblical story. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it offers a grounded way to read these lives without flattening them into roles or morals.

This free course explores the Book of Psalms as a sacred journey through trust, lament, repentance, and praise. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it invites honest engagement with Scripture without turning prayer into psychology.

This free course explores the inner journey of Al-Ghazālī, tracing his spiritual crisis, surrender, and return to lived certainty. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it offers a grounded way to engage Islamic spirituality without turning it into psychology.

This free course explores the Tao Te Ching as a practical guide to alignment, non-grasping, and living in harmony with the natural flow of life. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it invites slow, contemplative engagement without turning Taoism into psychology.

This free course explores the Seven Hermetic Principles as living laws shaping mind, reality, and inner experience. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it offers a grounded way to engage Hermetic wisdom without turning metaphysics into psychology.

This free course explores the Emerald Tablet as a foundational text of alchemical and metaphysical wisdom, focused on truth, transformation, and clear perception. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it invites slow, disciplined engagement without turning alchemy into psychology.

This free course explores classic Zen stories and koans as invitations into direct seeing rather than concepts to solve. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it offers a gentle, non-striving way to engage Zen without turning it into psychology.

This free course explores Japji Sahib as a sacred introduction to Reality through Sikh scripture, honoring its depth without forcing belief. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it invites slow, reverent engagement with truth beyond effort or striving.

This free course explores the Book of Ruth as a story of famine, loyalty, loss, and redemption shaped by ordinary courage. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it invites a slower reading of faithfulness formed under pressure without turning Scripture into therapy.

This free course explores the Book of Esther for seasons when God feels silent, distant, or unnamed. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it invites readers to notice hidden providence, courage, and faith under empire without turning Scripture into therapy.

The Ten Commandments were not given as threats or moral hurdles, but as words of freedom spoken to a people already rescued. This course explores each commandment as a matter of allegiance, relationship, and trust—revealing how these ancient words still speak to the human heart today through Scripture, history, and an Internal Family Systems–informed lens.