{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F8b67721f-acdd-48a5-a079-f5f6c81fada1","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"How Does Healing the Inner Child Open a Path to Collective Awakening with Psychology and Spirituality? with Phyllis Leavitt","description":"In this episode of I Awaken, we sit down with psychotherapist, author and spiritual seeker Phyllis Leavitt to unpack where psychology and spirituality actually meet in real life, not just in theory. Phyllis breaks down how early trauma, family patterns and inner child wounds become the raw material our soul uses to evolve, and how divine guidance can walk alongside clinical healing without bypassing the hard emotional work. She shares how her own mystical experiences reframed darkness as fuel for consciousness, why difficult relationships function as teachers, and how unresolved wounds can quietly shape our ideas of God, religion and power. We also dive into her latest book \u201cAmerica in Therapy: A New Approach to Hope and Healing for a Nation in Crisis\u201d, exploring what it would look like if an entire country went into therapy and used psychological principles to address collective trauma, polarization and authoritarian patterns. If you have ever felt that talk therapy alone is not enough, or that spirituality without grounding feels like an escape, this conversation gives you a clear, honest map for integrating both.\nAbout the Guest:\nPhyllis Leavitt is a seasoned psychotherapist, author and spiritual explorer who has spent decades helping people heal from trauma, abuse and dysfunctional family systems. Alongside her clinical work, she has received profound spiritual guidance that shaped her understanding of soul purpose, past lives, chakras and the deeper architecture of consciousness. She is the author of \u201cA Light in the Darkness,\u201d \u201cInto the Fire,\u201d and \u201cAmerica in Therapy: A New Approach to Hope and Healing for a Nation in Crisis.\u201d Phyllis is committed to bridging psychological healing with spiritual insight so individuals, families and nations can move from reactivity to responsibility and from wounding to conscious evolution.\nKey Takeaways :\n\n\nPsychological and spiritualPhyllis explains that real transformation comes from doing trauma work and inner child healing while also allowing divine presence, soul guidance and spiritual insight to illuminate what needs to shift.\n\n\nLight exposes the darkness we need to work withSpiritual experiences did not \u201cfix\u201d her pain instantly. Instead, they lit up buried wounds and survival patterns, showing that the human condition itself is the material we came here to transform.\n\n\nInner child work reveals the soul\u2019s curriculumThe patterns formed in childhood . including shame, silence, over-responsibility or self-abandonment . mirror the lessons the soul has been working on across many lifetimes and wants to resolve now.\n\n\nFamily and partners are soul-level teachersPhyllis views family, marriage and even painful relationships as part of a \u201csoul family\u201d that mirrors where we need stronger boundaries, a clearer voice, more love or more courage to live our truth.\n\n\nSpiritual bypassing is a real riskWhen we avoid grief, anger or trauma by jumping straight to \u201chigher consciousness,\u201d we often carry our unhealed wounds into spiritual beliefs, religion and communities without realizing it.\n\n\nAmerica itself needs therapyIn \u201cAmerica in Therapy,\u201d Phyllis applies basic therapeutic principles . owning harm, repairing trust, regulating nervous systems, listening across difference . to a whole nation, arguing that unhealed trauma is driving policy, polarization and spiritual distortion.\n\n\nThe endgame is embodying divine love in real lifeThrough the lens of chakras and soul triangles, she believes every person and the human collective are ultimately here to manifest divine love through our bodies, choices, families and systems, not just in theory or ritual.\n\n\n\u00a0\nHow to Connect with Guest:\nListeners can connect with Phyllis Leavitt here\n\n\nWebsite : https://www.phyllisleavitt.com/\n\n\nEmail : Reach out directly at: phyllis@phyllisleavitt.com\n\n\nBooks .\n\n\n\n\n\nA Light in the Darkness\n\n\nInto the Fire\n\n\nAmerica in Therapy: A New Approach to Hope and Healing for a Nation in CrisisAvailable via major online bo","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/53e90f85-4c63-4534-96f4-de4c63e7ef1e/ztu2zc5wbmc.jpg"}