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christine Knight Hypnotherapy & ifs
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Trauma-informed insights on IFS, nervous system regulation, emotional triggers, and the patterns that have followed you longest.
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Your Reality is a Mirror - Ready to Play?
🌙 The Mirror Game: Where Inner Life Meets Outer Reality Have you ever noticed how your outer world starts to shift when something inside of you does? A conversation lands differently. An opportunity appears out of nowhere. An old pattern suddenly feels complete. Your Reality is a Mirror It’s as if reality itself is reflecting your inner growth — waiting patiently for you to see yourself clearly enough to choose a new variation. That’s the essence of The Mirror Game: Inner Li
Christine Knight
Nov 30, 20253 min read
Healing Your Parts in Dreamtime
Interweaving Parts Work and Lucid Dreaming, interpreting dreams using Jungian archetype interpretation
Christine Knight
Nov 29, 20256 min read
Book Summary: 20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction
Body Felt Sense and Polyvagal Theory for Childhood Trauma Recovery
Body Felt Sense and Polyvagal Theory for Childhood Trauma Recovery
Christine Knight
Nov 28, 20252 min read
Book Summary: The Wisdom of the Enneagram
Summary and Analysis of:
The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types
by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson.
Christine Knight
Nov 26, 20255 min read
Online Support Groups for Depression Recovery
Living with depression can feel isolating. You might struggle with feelings of sadness, hopelessness, or self-doubt. But you don’t have to face this journey alone. Connecting with others who understand your experience can make a real difference. That’s where online depression support groups come in. They offer a safe space to share, learn, and heal together. Discovering Online Depression Support Groups Finding the right support can be challenging. Online depression support gr
Christine Knight
Nov 24, 20253 min read
Book Summary and Analysis: "Focusing" by Eugene T. Gendlin
Focusing by Eugene Gendlin is a small but profound book written with direct steps to begin returning to our body and learning how to communicate with it. Self-help therapy as well as using it alongside therapy or hypnotherapy.
Christine Knight
Nov 24, 20254 min read
Mother Earth Gaia's Chakra Locations
Root - Mt. Shasta, California USA
Sacral - Lake Titicaca, South America
Solar Plexus - Australia
Heart - Glastonbury, England
Throat - Between Egypt & Israel
Third Eye - Iran
Crown - Tibet
Christine Knight
Nov 22, 20251 min read
Your Thoughts Create Your Reality: How Changing Your Narrative Heals the Past, Transforms the Present, and Shapes the Future
Your Thoughts Create Your Reality: How Changing Your Narrative Heals the Past, Transforms the Present, and Shapes the Future
Christine Knight
Nov 22, 202517 min read
Effective Nervous System Regulation Techniques: Nervous System Calming Methods
Your Thoughts Create Your Reality: How Changing Your Narrative Heals the Past, Transforms the Present, and Shapes the Future
Christine Knight
Nov 21, 20253 min read
The Fawn Response: Why You Disappear to Keep Others Happy (And How to Come Back to Yourself)
Fawning is a Nervous System Response:
Difference between fawning & people-pleasing
The impossible dilemma in the body
Costs of fawning (relational, somatic, emotional)
Shadow aspects
Healing steps
Signs you have a fawn response
Practical action steps
✅ IFS framework of the Inner System:
Fawn Part as protective Firefighter
Exiles carrying abandonment and unworthiness
Self-energy as the goal
Unblending and reparenting
Christine Knight
Nov 19, 202517 min read
The 5 Wounds That Keep You From Being Yourself: An IFS & Shadow Work Perspective
"We are not our wounds, and we are not our masks. We are the True Self that existed before the wound and still exists beneath the mask—waiting to be liberated through awareness and compassion."
Christine Knight
Nov 18, 202516 min read
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose.”— Viktor Frankl
This article focuses on:
How trauma patterns (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) disguise themselves as clarity
How to tell when your system is reacting vs. when your Self-energy is responding
Tools from Deb Dana, Jan Winhall, and IFS to map those inner shifts
How to create pause, presence, and eventually choice from the body up
Christine Knight
Nov 18, 20254 min read
Book Summary: The Book of Wisdom Volume One by Harry B. Joseph
Book summary and review of The Book of Wisdom Volume 1 by Harry B. Joseph
Christine Knight
Nov 16, 20255 min read
Book Summary: The Book of Wisdom Volume Two by Harry B. Joseph
Book summary and review of The Book of Wisdom Volume 2 by Harry B. Joseph
Christine Knight
Nov 16, 20254 min read
Exercise in Self-Forgiveness
Exercise in Self-forgiveness
Christine Knight
Nov 16, 20252 min read
Book Summary: How to Permanently Erase Negative Self-Talk
This book uses CBT techniques and mindfulness to end negative self talk coming from the Inner Critic part. IFS uses inner self-reflection and compassionate inquiry to reconnect to the Inner Critic Part. But different techniques work for different people.
Christine Knight
Nov 16, 20256 min read
Why We Keep Repeating Toxic Relationship Patterns
The underlying root cause as to why we keep repeating toxic relationship patterns and self-sabotaging our lives
Christine Knight
Nov 16, 202514 min read
Book Summary: The Gene Keys by Richard Rudd
Book Summary of The Gene Keys - Embracing Your Higher Purpose by Richard Rudd
Christine Knight
Nov 15, 20255 min read
Estrangement Anxiety During the Holidays: What Your Parts Need When Cutting Contact Is healing, Not Cruelty
Balance the emotions around estrangment during the holidays
Christine Knight
Nov 15, 202518 min read
Internal Family Systems Therapy For Anxiety
Understanding Internal Family Systems Therapy
Christine Knight
Nov 10, 20255 min read
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