The End of RIPP: Ending Psychological & Emotional Suffering Without Therapy or Fixing the Past

Most people believe psychological suffering must be healed by revisiting the past.
The End of RIPP challenges that assumption completely.

Drawing on more than twenty years of real-world experience working with people in emotional distress, counsellor and coach Gary Redmond introduces the RIPP pattern: Resistance, Injustice, Powerlessness, and Pain. A simple but profound framework showing how much unnecessary psychological suffering is created, sustained, and intensified in the present moment.

Rather than focusing on endless analysis, emotional excavation, or fixing the past, this book points directly to the moment suffering is being created now. It shows how resistance to reality fuels anxiety, anger, resentment, despair, relationship conflict, and emotional exhaustion - and how awareness can interrupt that process before it takes hold.

Clear, grounded, and deeply human, The End of RIPP explores:

• why emotional suffering becomes repetitive and self-reinforcing
• how the RIPP loop quietly shapes relationships and identity
• the difference between pain and psychological suffering
• how conditioning drives automatic emotional reactions
• why many people remain trapped in cycles of resentment, fear, and self-protection
• how awareness, responsibility, and presence can bring immediate psychological relief

This is not a book about becoming perfect, positive, or endlessly healed. It is a practical and honest exploration of what happens when resistance begins to fall away, and psychological suffering no longer needs to continue.

Written for thoughtful readers, therapists, counsellors, coaches, and anyone tired of carrying emotional pain that no longer needs to be carried, The End of RIPP offers a calm, direct, and radically different perspective on emotional freedom.