Ep. 574 – Radical Self-Compassion with Ralph De La Rosa
Mindrolling with Raghu Markus
Be Here Now Network
4.7 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Trauma-focused psychotherapist Ralph De La Rosa links with Raghu to explain how radical self-compassion can outshine our deepest wounds.
Eager to learn more? Grab your own copy of Ralph’s new book, Outshining Trauma.
In this episode, Raghu and Ralph have a conversation about:
- Ralph’s casual brush with death and the divine play of the universe
- Healing our afflictions and uncovering our awakened state
- How we all tend to dissociate and distract ourselves
- Inspiration from Buddhism in Ralph’s own life and his therapy practice
- Befriending all of the different parts of our psyche
- Connecting the heart of compassion to the difficulties we experience
- Utilizing the tools of Internal Family Systems
- Working with the breath and other meditation techniques
- Getting intimate with our afflictions
- The concept of taking refuge
- Considering what a healthy love/relationship looks like
- How to respond to self-judgment and drop our armor
About Ralph De La Rosa
Ralph De La Rosa (he/they) is a teacher of human spirituality, an internationally published author and a trauma-focused psychotherapist. Ralph works in private practice and is a seasoned meditation teacher known for his radically open and humorous teaching style. He is personally mentored by Richard Schwartz, founder and developer of Internal Family Systems. Check out Ralph’s new book, published in November 2024, focusing on trauma and radical self-compassion, Outshining Trauma. You can keep up with Ralph on his website.
“Our hearts can really break open for our own struggle. That, for me, is the nature of what I would call radical self-compassion, when you start to behold your own struggle and are willing to get intimate with your afflictions rather than run from them.” – Ralph De La Rosa
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's Raghood. I'm back with Ralph De La Rosa, and many of you would know of Ralph because we've frequently talked over the years. |
| 0:27.3 | And welcome, Ralph. |
| 0:29.6 | Great to have that. |
| 0:30.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:31.0 | Always good to be here with you. |
| 0:32.4 | Just to remind Ralph is a psychotherapist and really does a wonderful integrated practices with spirituality, |
| 0:47.6 | psychotherapy. And well, we'll talk all about that so you can hear a little bit more about what you do, what Ralph does. |
| 0:57.5 | There's a few things going on for sure. |
| 0:59.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.0 | Okay, so, but let's just go, when Ralph was getting on the Zoom, which is how we do these things, before his video came up, he had a, his, usually there's a picture of somebody, but Ralph had a wonderful little, it's like a hallmark card to us now. It's called, bless this mess. And I said, God, is that appropriate for what we're going through? Yeah, we're here, you know, just before the election. |
| 1:31.8 | Indeed. |
| 1:32.9 | But then we had furthered the conversation because Ralph and I haven't talked in quite some time. |
| 1:39.0 | And he said a lot has gone on in this last year. |
| 1:45.1 | Well, whatever it is that's gone on, I'd like to hear about it. |
| 1:47.9 | And, you know, obviously sharing, which you always do, is so beneficial because we're all in the same boat. |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:57.8 | It's true. |
| 1:59.0 | It's true. |
| 1:59.8 | More like each other than we are different from one another, for sure, as Maya Angelou said. |
| 2:05.5 | That is certainly true. |
| 2:06.7 | And the last time we talked, actually, we were on the precipice of the 2020 election |
| 2:11.6 | and all of the storms that were happening in 2020. |
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