Comments on: Don’t Fall for New-Age Therapies, It’s All in Chassidus

By: Toxic shame source is gasus ruach?

Toxic shame source is gasus ruach? — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 10:15:46 +0000

In reply to Toxic.

See this article, p. 21 story.

https://derher.org/wp-content/uploads/66-Adar-5778-04.pdf

Toxic shame sounds like busha shelo bimkoma.

Source is gasus haruach, so maybe addressing that will address toxic shame?

By: Sorry to hear about your experience

Sorry to hear about your experience — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 15:00:12 +0000

I’m sorry to hear that you spent years in therapy and did not see benefits. That is unfortunate and must feel like it was a big waste.

Unfortunately there are many therapists out there who do not help their clients improve their lives, and often make them worse.

This does not mean that therapy / healing is bogus, it means you had one of many bad therapists. There absolutely is very powerful and effective healing available, with good therapists and/or healing coaches, it is a matter of finding one of the good ones.

There are very real tools that can bring powerful healing and can help a person reach a position where their limmud haTorah and kiyum hamitzvos can improve drastically because they are no longer fighting against the issues that have been programmed deep in their bodies, that they have been for so long.

By: Shame

Shame — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 05:18:30 +0000

Thank you for sharing this article.

However, the Authors notes at the end of the essay seems to imply that it is exactly what R Braun is warning us against.

“The idea for this essay came about as I was reading a book entitled, ‘Daring Greatly,’ by Brene Brown. As I was reading it I recognized there was a lot of correlations to Chassidus…..”

Where does Tanya / Chasidus / Igros Kodesh discuss toxic shame and how to heal it.

By: agree

agree — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 01:40:06 +0000

after being in therapy for many yrs, i agree 100%. therapy is bologna. just learn chassidus, and be open with freinds, קנה לך חבר, עשה לך רב
if someone needs meds thats a different story, so get meds and go back to chassidus! no therapy (many therapists themselves are not very confident etc)

By: Letters

Letters — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:34:52 +0000

In reply to Rebbe’s letters. Thank you. And see the letters on the following pages, in the printed version, where the Rebbe give explicit encouragement to seek treatment from a mental health professional: 23, 82, 117, 162, 181, 200, 201, 210 216, 224, 227, 228, 236, 280, 281, 283.

By: Rebbe’s letters

Rebbe’s letters — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:06 +0000

A collection of the Rebbe’s letters on mental health (mentioned by the rabbi at the 11:31 mark) are available here https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/letters/default_cdo/aid/2308511/jewish/Healthy-in-Body-Mind-Spirit-Volume-3.htm

By: Thank you, Rabbi Braun

Thank you, Rabbi Braun — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 01:21:17 +0000

I so appreciate this article. I hear people speaking about therapies that have some “plant-based medicine” as an integral part of the “healing journey”. These substances are uncritically consumed by people who question most pharmaceuticals and treatment protocols of current, “Western” medical providers. Thank you, Rabbi Braun, for addressing the proliferation of questionable therapies.

By: Context

Context — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:41:58 +0000

In reply to Trying to understand. Perhaps rabbi Braun Takes a different approach, depending on whether He’s answering a specific individual’s question versus giving a public statement (although it’s interesting that the individuals question is published on the Internet, differing from his public statement).

By: Toxic

Toxic — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:22:37 +0000

Serious question, I’m interested in learning the sources.

Where does Tanya / Chasidus / Igros Kodesh discuss toxic shame and how to heal it.

Thank you in advance

By: Trying to understand

Trying to understand — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:57:34 +0000

In reply to AskTheRav. The answer in the asktherav link seems to be saying something contradictory to what was said in the farbrengen. The farbrengen seems to imply that we should not follow the latest scientific developments in therapy while the link explicitly says that we should.

By: AskTheRav

AskTheRav — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 16:56:06 +0000

In reply to Important article! Further clarification…?.

https://asktherav.com/5150-is-psychology-kosher/

By: Typo in original comment

Typo in original comment — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:56:44 +0000

In reply to Important article! Further clarification…?. “ and still can NOT manage to have a healthy self image in line with the truth of chassidus”

By: Important article! Further clarification…?

Important article! Further clarification…? — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 05:03:16 +0000

“If it’s a serious issue, if there’s an illness, there’s a problem – a gashmius’diker problem, a mental problem that needs professional help – one cannot mess it up“

1. What are the parameters that define what is/not “a serious issue”?
2. What are the parameters that define what is/not “an illness”?
3. What are the parameters that define what is/not “a mental problem that needs professional help”?
4. What does “one cannot mess it up” mean?

There are many (many many) people who have iskafya, who daven for hours with their talleisim over their heads, and learn what chassidus says that is related to self esteem etc. and still can manage to have a healthy self image in line with the truth of chassidus, people who are doing all the right things by the book and are still suffering and their families are suffering.

What should they do / not do?u