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Dec 16, 2024

I Want to Heal But Also I Don’t: Why Do Many Feel Averse to Therapy and Trauma Work?

Anti-Healing Parts Can Complicate Therapeutic Work and They Are Often Sneaky Liars

I Want to Heal But Also I Don’t: Why Do Many Feel Averse to Therapy and Trauma Work?

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Maija Haavisto

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Nov 11, 2020

Medical Trauma

Gaslighting and Continuous Traumatic Stress Eating Away At Your Self-Worth

Medical Trauma

Maija Haavisto

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Jun 17

Why Online Communities So Often Turn Toxic

The Main Cause Has Nothing to Do With Anonymity or Even Being Online

Why Online Communities So Often Turn Toxic

Maija Haavisto

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Sep 29, 2025

All the Preachers Are Broken

My Spiritual Explorations in Buddhism and Rock’n’Roll and Their Traumatic Origins

All the Preachers Are Broken

Maija Haavisto

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Jul 21, 2025

Gaslighting Death

Life-Threatening Conditions Are Too Triggering and Get Dissociated Away

Gaslighting Death

Maija Haavisto

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Apr 24, 2023

Attachment Style, Parts and Internal Family Systems

Insecure attachment can greatly complicate our relationships, friendships and parenting, even all areas of our lives. Viewing attachment…

Attachment Style, Parts and Internal Family Systems

Maija Haavisto

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Nov 14, 2022

Dark Nights, Spiritual Crises and Psychotic Breaks

The Side Effects of Meditation

Dark Nights, Spiritual Crises and Psychotic Breaks

Maija Haavisto

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Aug 19, 2022

Lurking in the Shadows: Harmful Interpersonal Patterns in Spiritual Communities

Numerous spiritual gurus and teachers have been guilty of abusing their students, but damaging behavior also takes place in peer-led…

Lurking in the Shadows: Harmful Interpersonal Patterns in Spiritual Communities

Maija Haavisto

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Jan 31, 2022

Why Healthy People Abandon Their Chronically Ill Friends

It’s Probably Not Why You Think

Why Healthy People Abandon Their Chronically Ill Friends

Maija Haavisto

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Dec 28, 2021

Introduction to Internal Family Systems

A Groundbreaking Psychotherapy, Self-Therapy, Communication Method and World-View

Introduction to Internal Family Systems

Maija Haavisto

Maija Haavisto

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Therapist and author of 20 books. Two free ones on trauma, dissociation and spirituality: www.lovingawakening.net My work combines IFS and somatic approaches.

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