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When spiritual platitudes invalidate your pain

I shared about my trauma in our contemplative circle and the facilitator said everything happens for a reason and I wanted to leave but I had driven two hours to get there.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The attempt to find meaning is overriding the need to witness suffering without fixing it.

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