Season 2 - Episode 5 of the Sovereign Souls podcast is now live.
Spirits Are Real: "Robert Faulkner on Healing Trauma & Possession".
In this eye-opening episode, Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist and author Robert Faulkner joins Andy Porter and Jonno Webster to explore one of the most controversial questions in mental health:
What if some of the voices people hear aren’t psychological at all, but spiritual?
Robert shares his extraordinary personal journey through severe childhood trauma, which led him into decades of therapeutic work with clients facing the darkest corners of human suffering. Through his practice, he discovered a crucial limitation in conventional therapy: some “parts” clients struggled with were not internal fragments of the psyche, but external entities, destructive energies that resisted healing.
Blending IFS with compassionate Spirit Release, Robert explains how he helps clients identify these attachments, release them safely, and reclaim control of their inner world. He discusses global cultural perspectives on possession, challenges the Western psychiatric model, and highlights the urgent need for an integrative approach to trauma, psychosis, and spiritual interference.
This conversation is raw, groundbreaking, and deeply human, a call to rethink mental health, honour spiritual reality, and build a new healing model that embraces both psychology and spirit.
In this episode, Jonno and Andy share:
- Robert's Journey: Raised in a severely traumatic home: physical and sexual abuse, parental alcoholism, brother’s suicide, father’s murder.
- IFS & Spirit Possession: IFS (Internal Family Systems) sees the mind as made of “parts”; most are well-intentioned, even if dysfunctional.
- Key Practices: Emphasises gentle inquiry: asking inner critics, “Are you a part of me?” Most entities can’t lie in response.
- Global Perspective: Notes that Western cultures (especially the U.S. and U.K.) are the most resistant to acknowledging spiritual causes of suffering.
- Critique of Psychiatry: Challenges mainstream psychiatry for dismissing spiritual realities and over-relying on brain-damaging long-term meds.
- Call to Action: Urges the world to acknowledge that “spirits are real” and many mental health challenges stem from spiritual interference.
Join Andy Porter and Jonno Webster as they explore how external entities influence trauma and inner voices, and why integrating psychology with spirit release could revolutionise healing.
We can’t wait for you to hear it.
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