Where Psychotherapy and Astrology Meet: Loving All Parts of The Self with Rebel Therapist, Kristen Antonio
Your birth chart is the multi-million point blueprint to understanding why you operate the way you do, the tendencies you’re more prone to than others, and the karmic signature you have brought in from other lives. Pair this with the absolutely pivotal information it reveals about your ancestral and generational karma and you’ve got a pretty powerful map to decoding the sacred parts within you.
In this episode of The It’s Karmic Podcast, Kristen Antonio, aka @RebelTherapist, and I explore these parts within the psychotherapy practice called Family Systems and Astrology to understand your sacred parts.
Kristen leads us through a discussion on the powerful parts of the self that are there to protect, guide, and keep you safe - and how this can keep us stuck in karmic comfort zones. Not only that, she helps us understand how these parts are operating from deep self love, how we can begin to speak with them, and how to look at the birth chart to understand them deeper.
Kristen Antonia practices a form of psychotherapy called internal family systems also called IFS, all about inviting in and noticing the different parts of us that sometimes feel like two siblings fighting or a shaming parent energy or all of these sort of embodied imprints of energy that we hold inside of our internal system. In this episode Kristen shares that sometimes when we unravel these parts we will see what has been passed down through our energy, our karma, what we're here to sort of shift and change the legacy burdens that we're here to release, the legacy inheritances and heirlooms that we're here to amplify.
What is Parts Therapy?
Parts therapy is a therapeutic approach that views the mind as composed of different "parts" or aspects, each with its own beliefs, emotions, and behaviors. It suggests that internal conflicts arise when these parts have differing goals or perspectives. The therapy aims to help individuals identify, understand, and integrate these parts, fostering communication between them to resolve conflicts and promote healing.
Commonly used in modalities like Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, parts therapy can address issues like trauma, anxiety, and self-sabotage. By recognizing and nurturing these different aspects of the self, individuals can achieve greater self-awareness, emotional regulation, and overall well-being.
In this vulnerable conversation we speak a lot about control, the masks we wear, and the parts of us that are continuously accidentally self sabotaging out of love.
Who is Kristen Antonio
Kristen Antonio is a licensed clinical psychotherapist, Internal Family Systems coach & energy healer. She has over a decade experience treating folks across the developmental lifespan, with a focus in anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and disordered eating using non-pathological methodologies. In other words, where some providers may regard your symptoms as "abnormal" or "unhealthy," Kristen sees these tender, sometimes deeply painful, parts of your experience as an invitation into a deeper connection with your higher purpose.
From this lens, Kristen guides ambitious, spiritual, and energetically sensitive souls into a deep and loving partnership with their subconscious shadows. Through her signature framework of somatic nervous system regulation, energetic healing, and cognitive restructuring, Kristen helps her clients reconnect to the wisdom of their bodies and reestablish Self- Trust so that they can consciously create this wild and precious life from their soul's highest expression.
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