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Clinician’s Field Guide, Session Structures for Gita-Informed IFS
This article offers clinicians practical, ethical ways to integrate Internal Family Systems with a Bhagavad Gita–informed lens, helping spiritually oriented clients feel safe, grounded, and fully seen in therapy.
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Ethics and Culture, Integrating Scripture and Therapy with Respect
This article offers clinicians ethical guidance for integrating Internal Family Systems with Bhagavad Gita–informed clients, emphasizing cultural humility, consent, and clear scope of practice.
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Arjuna’s Anxiety, A Case Study of Courage in Practice
This article uses Internal Family Systems to reinterpret Arjuna’s crisis in the Bhagavad Gita, showing how Self leadership reorganizes fear, protectors, and courage during life-defining choices.
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Bhakti Without Bypass: Devotion That Heals Protectors (Gita)
This article explores how Internal Family Systems integrates with Bhakti devotion from the Bhagavad Gita, showing how parts work helps devotion heal rather than bypass pain.
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Dharma and Parts: Finding Purpose Without Polarization (Gita)
This article explores how Internal Family Systems helps clarify dharma by working with polarized parts, allowing purpose and right action to emerge without pressure or bypassing.
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Self, Soul, and Nonduality: A Careful Dialogue in the Bhagavad Gita
This article explores how Internal Family Systems relates to the Bhagavad Gita’s teaching on Atman, clarifying where therapeutic Self-leadership aligns with and differs from spiritual selfhood.
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Addiction and Attachment: When Desire Becomes a Fire You Can’t Put Down in the Bhagavad Gita Context
This article explores how Internal Family Systems helps work with desire and craving through a lens that aligns with the Bhagavad Gita, offering a compassionate way to meet urges without shame.
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Free IFS Enneagram Course
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.
Free IFS Ray Course
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.
Japji Sahib Pauree 17
Japji Sahib Pauree 17 points toward the boundlessness of the Divine, naming countless forms, names, qualities, and expressions that can never be fully captured or contained. Guru Nanak emphasizes humility before the infinite, reminding the seeker that language and intellect fall short. Through an Internal Family Systems (IFS) lens, this pauree softens parts that crave certainty or mastery and invites Self-led presence with mystery rather than control.
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