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When spiritual language becomes contaminated by trauma

I feel peaceful in nature but the moment I try to call it God or the divine I get triggered because those words belong to people who hurt me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The very vocabulary of transcendence can become poisoned by association with violation.

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