When Spirituality Replaces Real Relating
For years, I’ve carried a growing discomfort around something I kept witnessing in spiritual spaces – especially in communities built around devotion, awakening, healing, or transcendence. At first, I thought the discomfort was just my own “negativity.” I tried to override it. I tried to become more positive, more surrendered, more spiritual. But eventually I realized something important: the issue wasn’t that difficult emotions existed. The issue was that there…

