Cultivating Love: Wisdom for Life - Contents of Section Two: Contaminated Wisdom by Dr. Ken McGill

In Section Two of Cultivating Love: Wisdom for Life, you'll discover how your Wisdom within you becomes “compromised,” (via adverse childhood, community, cultural and climate experiences), the effect of compromised wisdom upon you and your relationships, and how to “recalibrate” yourself so you’re able to grow beyond challenges in life that threaten your maturity and your ability to live a wise and productive life.

The bulk of the chapter addresses how survival tactics morph into unhealthy coping mechanisms, which develop into maladaptive schemas, maladaptive schema modes, ego defenses and cognitive distortions, and these coping strategies impact your Manager, Firefighter and Exile(d) parts within you per Internal Family Systems.