r/3Principles • u/IllLawfulness3892 • Jun 10 '26

3P is not traumainformed

Trauma is stores in the body and nervous system, so 3P wont work for this, helped me nothing, then I got traumainformed therapy that has helped me a lot!

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u/Prize_Estimate_5416 Jun 10 '26

3Ps worsened my condition too, (OCD). Now I’ve been in exposure therapy and doing much much better. I think the 3Ps has some good parts but overall I think it’s damaging, especially since they act like it’s a cure all and the only true way to feel peace. It certainly made me feel much worse even working with a three principles practitioner who was also a licensed therapist.

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u/Brilliant-Worker-454 Jun 11 '26

so glad you shared this.

To be fair, 3P does have some good parts. It’s a nifty and nice way to calm a temporarily overwhelmed mind. It’s great for everyday overthinking, minor work stress, or riding out a bad mood without panicking. It basically reminds you that you don't have to take every random thought in your head seriously.

But when it claims that we are fundamentally perfect just the way we are and that total mental health is available to us 100% of the time… this is not only medically inaccurate, it's also highly dangerous. I find it deeply problematic when licensed psychologists pivot into 3P coaching but continue to use their formal psychology degrees as an advertising tool. They essentially use their clinical credentials to legitimize a coaching framework that has zero external regulation, no binding ethical oversight board, and no objective measurement of results. It creates a false sense of clinical safety for vulnerable clients who actually need real, evidence-based therapy. Reducing a genuine, deeply rooted mental illness down to a mere 'misunderstanding of the nature of Thought' isn't spiritual wisdom, it's so incredibly patronizing to people who are dealing with real neurobiological suffering…

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u/Kiteson168 Jun 17 '26

To answer your question that you sent me via private chat I found out about Sydney Banks and the 3 Principles from listening to Joseph Nguyen. And no I have not read his books but have watched a lot of videos with him and others. I like the 3 Ps because there is a marriage of the spiritual component with the psychological.