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Chapter 5 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed reading of Tao Te Ching Chapter 5, exploring non-attachment, straw dogs, and the Self as steady presence rather than rescuer or fixer.
5 min read
Chapter 19 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed reading of Tao Te Ching Chapter 19, exploring performative virtue, forced morality, and the return to Self-led simplicity and natural compassion.
4 min read
Chapter 20 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed reading of Tao Te Ching Chapter 20, exploring intellectual exhaustion, social alienation, Self-energy, and being nourished by the Tao beyond performance and certainty.
7 min read
Chapter 21 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed exploration of Tao Te Ching Chapter 21, revealing virtue as alignment with the Tao, the felt-sense of Self, and the subtle truth beneath form, shape, and essence.
5 min read
Chapter 31 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed reading of Tao Te Ching Chapter 31, exploring violence, power, and restraint through the lens of Self-energy, inner protectors, and the cost of domination without sorrow.
4 min read
Chapter 22 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed exploration of Tao Te Ching Chapter 22, revealing why bending leads to wholeness, yielding restores integrity, and Self-led presence heals what force never can.
6 min read
Chapter 24 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed reading of Tao Te Ching Chapter 24, exploring how egoic striving, self-promotion, and overreaching destabilize the system, while grounded Self-led presence restores balance and endurance.
4 min read
Chapter 25 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed reading of Tao Te Ching Chapter 25, exploring the formless Source behind all things, the rhythm of expansion and return, and how Self-led living aligns with the deepest natural order.
5 min read
Chapter 26 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed reading of Tao Te Ching Chapter 26, exploring inner gravity, stillness as leadership, and how Self becomes the stabilizing root beneath movement, ambition, and stimulation.
4 min read
Chapter 28 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed reading of Tao Te Ching Chapter 28, exploring polarity, humility, the uncarved block, and how Self holds opposites without becoming trapped in roles, identities, or coping strategies.
4 min read
Chapter 23 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed reading of Tao Te Ching Chapter 23, exploring natural rhythms, emotional storms, alignment, trust, and why Self-led presence is the only sustainable way to live.
4 min read
Chapter 27 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed reading of this Tao Te Ching chapter, revealing mastery without force, compassion without judgment, and how Self-led presence leaves no inner harm, no abandoned parts, and no wasted experience.
4 min read
Chapter 33 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed reading of Tao Te Ching Chapter 33, exploring inner wisdom, Self-mastery, enoughness, and how centered presence creates a form of longevity that endures beyond control, achievement, or force.
3 min read
Chapter 29 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed reading of Tao Te Ching Chapter 29, exploring why force and control fracture harmony, and how Self-led presence honors natural rhythms instead of trying to dominate them.
4 min read
Chapter 30 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed reading of Tao Te Ching Chapter 30, exploring why force and domination create resistance, and how Self-led alignment offers a quieter, more enduring form of power.
3 min read
Chapter 17 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed reading of Tao Te Ching Chapter 17, exploring quiet leadership, trust, and how Self-led guidance empowers inner parts without control, fear, or the need for recognition.
6 min read
Chapter 18 – Tao Te Ching
An IFS-informed reading of Tao Te Ching Chapter 18, revealing how forced morality, performative goodness, and rigid loyalty arise when Self-energy is obscured, and how natural alignment restores effortless compassion.
4 min read
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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