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Spiritual bypassing

The use of spiritual concepts and practices to avoid facing difficult emotions, relationships, or truths about oneself—substituting transcendence for transformation. When we spiritualize our pain rather than meet it, we remain trapped in the very patterns we sought to transcend.

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