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The Goodness Trap - OUT NOW!

by Bruce Sanguin

The Goodness Trap explores the hidden psychological cost of building a life around being good, needed, agreeable, self-sacrificing, or emotionally safe for others. Beneath what is commonly called “people-pleasing” often lies something much deeper: a survival strategy formed early in life in response to shame, criticism, emotional neglect, conflict, or conditional love. Over time, many people unconsciously learn that belonging, approval, and even safety depend on suppressing their own truth, needs, anger, desires, and individuality.

In this book, Bruce Sanguin examines how these adaptive patterns become organized around what he calls the Survivor Self — the protective identity built to secure love and avoid rejection — and how this false self gradually disconnects us from authenticity, freedom, creativity, intimacy, and aliveness. Through psychological insight, spiritual reflection, philosophy, and practical self-awareness, The Goodness Trap helps readers recognize the unconscious beliefs and relational patterns that keep them trapped in cycles of overgiving, perfectionism, conflict avoidance, self-betrayal, and emotional exhaustion.

At its heart, this is a book about reclaiming your own life. It is an invitation to move beyond survival and toward what Bruce calls the Heart Self — the deeper, freer, more authentic dimension of who you are beneath fear, adaptation, and performance. Rather than teaching readers how to become better versions of their protective selves, The Goodness Trap offers a path toward greater self-trust, emotional honesty, sovereignty, compassion, and the courage to live from truth rather than approval.

Dismanteled by Bruce Sanguin

Dismantled by Bruce Sanguin

How Love and Psychedelics Broke a Clergyman Apart and Put Him Back Together

I wrote this book from journal entries over a period of three years of intense work with psychedelics. These are the true medicines which the pharmaceutical-medical complex and governments around the world have suppressed. They work at the level of what is traditionally known as "soul" or "heart", revealing the Mind of the universe and, at a personal level, all that has been repressed in our own minds.

Which can be challenging to integrate. Scottish psychiatrist, R.D. Laing, once said that humans are psychophobic, afraid to see the truth of what's going on in our psyches. Overcoming the fear is an exercise in self-acceptance and self-compassion for all that caused us to hide from our experience.

I am humbled by the revelatory power of these medicines and how they re-introduced me to my heart.

The title of the book describes the intensity of my experience of being broken apart - in the best way possible - and being put back together. Both the "dismantling" and the re-formation is a work of love by mysterious forces. It is also by the kindness and good treatment of humans, like my mentor, Andrew Feldmar. Deep gratitude.

The book is not intended to be normative for others. There is no normal. But my hope is that it might provide hope and inspiration for you as you take your own journey into the deeper mysteries of what it means to be human.

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The Goodness Trap:
End People-Pleasing and Live Your Own Heart-Centred Life

This book describes how to end the people-pleasing identity and shift into your true, heart-centred self.

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