Reveals Is Soul Alignment Mental Health’s Missing Link? (Dr. Amy Robbins)

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Dr. Amy Robbins is a psychotherapist, spiritual teacher, and host of the podcast Life, Death, and the Space Between. She is pioneering an approach that integrates spirituality with traditional psychology.

After years of watching clients improve in therapy but never fully heal, she realized the problem wasn’t that people needed better medication or more advanced therapeutic techniques. They needed to look at whether the life they were living actually matched who they are at a soul level.

In this conversation, we explore why soul misalignment might be the missing piece that explains why people stay stuck despite years of treatment, why so many outwardly successful people feel depressed, and how symptoms can shift when people begin living more aligned lives.

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This episode is great for:

• Therapists and mental health professionals

• Anyone who's been in therapy for years and made progress but still feels like something's missing.

• People struggling with depression, anxiety, or unexplained health issues

• Spiritual seekers who want their inner work validated in a clinical context

Ideas that really stuck out to me:

1. Depression is often a cry of the soul, not a chemical imbalance. When you're living out of alignment with your soul's purpose, your mind and body create symptoms to force you to pay attention. This is why antidepressants manage symptoms but don't resolve the underlying emptiness.

2. Soul misalignment manifests as specific mental health symptoms. The DSM categorizes difficulty concentrating, disrupted sleep, and lack of interest in activities as depression, when they're actually your soul saying we're not doing this anymore. These aren't disorders, they're information requiring realignment.

3. Your soul came here to express certain qualities like love, peace, joy, or connection. When your actual life contradicts these core expressions, the dissonance creates what we call mental illness. Alignment is about congruence between who you are and how you're living.

4. Only 5% of therapists receive training in spirituality, yet 60% of clients say spiritual practices are essential to their healing. This massive gap is why therapy helps but doesn't heal. We're treating symptoms while ignoring the root cause.

5. The difference between healing and managing symptoms comes down to whether you address soul alignment. You can learn coping strategies and take medication for decades, or you can ask if your life matches what your soul came here to do. One manages problems, the other eliminates them.

6. We're systematically misdiagnosing spiritual emergence as mental illness. Someone having spiritual experiences gets labeled as psychotic, when the actual difference is modulation. People connecting with spirit guides can control the experience, but people with schizophrenia cannot. We're medicating spiritual awakenings because we've eliminated soul from mental health entirely.

7. When people realign with their soul's purpose, their mental health symptoms often disappear without intervention. Amy sees that her clients who were medicated for years suddenly don't need medication when they start living aligned lives. This is addressing the root cause instead of symptoms.

Dr. Robbins’ is exactly the kind of work our world needs right now. We’ve compartmentalized healing for too long, acting as if our psychological patterns, spiritual experiences, and physical symptoms exist in separate universes, but they aren’t.

They are all expressions of the same underlying reality, and treating them separately often leaves people only halfway healed.

You’re not broken. Your symptoms are information.

I hope you enjoy this conversation!

- Scott

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Recommended Resources:

• About Dr. Amy Robbins

• About Her Website

• LIFE, DEATH & THE SPACE BETWEEN

• Dr. Robbins On Youtube

• Spiritually Informed Therapy

• Dr. Robbins On Instagram

Episode Transcript

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Show Notes

• 00:00 - The Intersection of Psychology and Spirituality

• 03:29 - A Transformative Spiritual Experience

• 10:48 - The Concept of Spiritually Informed Therapy

• 12:00 - Understanding the Soul's Intentions

• 17:30 - Navigating Spiritual Struggles and Growth

• 27:29 - Embracing the Full Spectrum of Experience

• 29:03 - The Limitations of Traditional Diagnosis

• 31:32 - Integrating Spirituality into Therapy

• 33:37 - Researching Spirituality and Healing

• 35:13 - Practical Applications of Spiritual Therapy

• 36:06 - Frameworks for Spiritually Informed Therapy

• 39:24 - Exploring Past Life Regression and Spiritual Tools

• 41:10 - The Neuroscience of Spirituality

• 43:15 - The Genesis of Spiritually Informed Therapy

• 49:20 - Sharing Insights and Resources