False Healing Exposed: New Age, Trauma & Christ with Anastasia Gerali (The Reborn Anastasia)

Not everything called healing actually heals.In this episode of The Orthodox Health Podcast, Dr. Michael Christian & John are joined by Christian trauma therapist, Anastasia Gerali, The Reborn Anastasia, to discuss her journey from cultural Orthodoxy into New Age spirituality... & back to Christ.Anastasia shares how trauma, divorce, manifestation, hypnotherapy, yoga, meditation, psychic practices, Buddhism, & ayahuasca all became part of her search for peace. What first felt empowering & inclusive eventually revealed itself as spiritually destructive.Her story culminates in the moment the Holy Spirit instructed her to pray to Jesus, & Christ restored the identity that trauma & false healing had distorted.They also discuss why the New Age attracts wounded people, how trauma can become an identity, why nervous system regulation is not salvation, what therapy can & cannot do, & why true healing means becoming whole in Christ… body, soul, mind, will, memory, wounds, & all.Takeaways:​Counterfeit healing often starts by naming a real wound. The danger is not always that the pain is fake, but the false gospel built around the pain.​The New Age attracts people because it often feels compassionate, inclusive, & empowering.​Manifestation replaces prayer with control. ​Trauma is real, but trauma is not identity. It can shape survival patterns, but it must not become the organizing center of the person.​Nervous system regulation matters, but it is not salvation. ​Therapy & confession are not interchangeable. Therapy expose patterns, but repentance/metanoia bring the person before Christ for transformation.​Christ restores identity. The final word over the person is not trauma, diagnosis, survival pattern, or false identity… but Christ.Sound Bytes: ​​“New Age felt like the complete opposite. It was very inclusive… it felt like coming home, if I’m honest.”​ “You’re a ritual away or a practice away from the thing that you’re looking for.”​“Now I absolutely know without a doubt that that was a demon.”​ “I was using the word surrender, but I wasn’t surrendering myself to Him. I was trying to surrender to me.​“Christ restored my identity… my identity in Christ, as chosen, cherished, loved, created.”00:00 Coming Up03:08 False Healing03:54 Meet Anastasia Gerali07:09 Cultural Orthodoxy09:48 Trauma & the Search for Healing12:23 Why New Age Felt Like Home13:29 What Christians Misunderstand About New Age16:43 Manifestation & “The Secret”18:40 Hypnotherapy & the Subconscious Mind21:58 Yoga, Meditation & Psychic Practices23:17 Subjective Truth, Dreams & Spiritual Deception25:38 Ayahuasca, Hidden Knowledge & the Veil Dropped33:59 Buddhism & Reincarnation36:26 Plant Medicine, DMT & Testing Every Spirit39:19 How Christ Pulled Anastasia Out44:46 Jesus Christ, Surrender & Deliverance50:07 When Trauma Becomes Identity 57:44 Trauma Neuroscience, Strongholds & Survival Patterns1:06:18 Therapy, Confession & Repeated Patterns1:08:38 Metanoia, Repentance & the Renewal of the Mind1:10:58 Christ Restored Her Identity1:17:18 Closing ThoughtsWhere to Find Anastasia: @the.reborn.anastasia - Instagram, YouTube, & TikTokWork with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dr. Mike⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠:Signed Copies of Orthodoxy & The Medicine of the Future: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠OrthodoxHealth.com/book⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Order Orthodoxy & the Medicine of the Future on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Donate to St. John the Theologian ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support the Show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with a One-Time or Recurring donationIntro & Outro Music: St. John of Chicago Orthodox Church Choir (Arkansas) - Please support their building fund by buying the whole album ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Orthodox Health ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Telegram