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When spiritual communities inadvertently shame difficult emotions

Everyone in my spiritual community is so positive all the time and I feel broken because I still get depressed and angry.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Spiritual materialism can create performance pressure that pathologizes the full spectrum of human emotional experience.

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