July 6, 2026
False Healing Exposed: New Age, Trauma & Christ with Anastasia Gerali (The Reborn Anastasia)
<p><strong>Not everything called healing actually heals.</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Takeaways:</strong></p><ul><li>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.</li><li>The New Age attracts people because it often feels compassionate, inclusive, & empowering.</li><li>Manifestation replaces prayer with control. </li><li>Trauma is real, but trauma is not identity. It can shape survival patterns, but it must not become the organizing center of the person.</li><li>Nervous system regulation matters, but it is not salvation. </li><li>Therapy & confession are not interchangeable. Therapy expose patterns, but repentance/metanoia bring the person before Christ for transformation.</li><li>Christ restores identity. The final word over the person is not trauma, diagnosis, survival pattern, or false identity… but Christ.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Sound Bytes:</strong> </p><ul><li>“New Age felt like the complete opposite. It was very inclusive… it felt like coming home, if I’m honest.”</li><li> “You’re a ritual away or a practice away from the thing that you’re looking for.”</li><li>“Now I absolutely know without a doubt that that was a demon.”</li><li> “I was using the word surrender, but I wasn’t surrendering myself to Him. I was trying to surrender to me.</li><li>“Christ restored my identity… my identity in Christ, as chosen, cherished, loved, created.”</li></ul><p><br></p><p>00:00 Coming Up</p><p>03:08 False Healing</p><p>03:54 Meet Anastasia Gerali</p><p>07:09 Cultural Orthodoxy</p><p>09:48 Trauma & the Search for Healing</p><p>12:23 Why New Age Felt Like Home</p><p>13:29 What Christians Misunderstand About New Age</p><p>16:43 Manifestation & “The Secret”</p><p>18:40 Hypnotherapy & the Subconscious Mind</p><p>21:58 Yoga, Meditation & Psychic Practices</p><p>23:17 Subjective Truth, Dreams & Spiritual Deception</p><p>25:38 Ayahuasca, Hidden Knowledge & the Veil Dropped</p><p>33:59 Buddhism & Reincarnation</p><p>36:26 Plant Medicine, DMT & Testing Every Spirit</p><p>39:19 How Christ Pulled Anastasia Out</p><p>44:46 Jesus Christ, Surrender & Deliverance</p><p>50:07 When Trauma Becomes Identity </p><p>57:44 Trauma Neuroscience, Strongholds & Survival Patterns</p><p>1:06:18 Therapy, Confession & Repeated Patterns</p><p>1:08:38 Metanoia, Repentance & the Renewal of the Mind</p><p>1:10:58 Christ Restored Her Identity</p><p>1:17:18 Closing Thoughts</p><p><br></p><p>Where to Find Anastasia: </p><p>@the.reborn.anastasia - <a href="https://instagram.com/the.reborn.anastasia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@the.reborn.anastasia-YT" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">YouTube</a>, & <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@the.reborn.anastasia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">TikTok</a></p><p><br></p><p>Work with Dr. Mike :</p><p>Signed Copies of Orthodoxy & The Medicine of the Future: <a href="https://www.orthodoxhealth.com/book" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">OrthodoxHealth.com/book</a></p><p>Order Orthodoxy & the Medicine of the Future on <a href="https://www.amzn.to/4adGdrv" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Amazon</a></p><p>Donate to St. John the Theologian <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-st-john-theologian-church" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">here</a></p><p>Support the Show with a One-Time or Recurring donation</p><p>Intro & Outro Music: St. John of Chicago Orthodox Church Choir (Arkansas) - Please support their building fund by buying the whole album <a href="https://stjohnorthodoxchurch.bandcamp.com/album/come-ye-faithful-building-fundraiser" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">here</a></p><p>Orthodox Health <a href="https://instagram.com/Orthodox_Health%E2%81%A0" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a> & <a href="https://t.me/orthodoxhealthpodcast" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Telegram</a></p>
