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Why spiritual fasting goals often lead to feelings of failure

I keep starting juice fasts telling myself they're spiritual retreats but I always break them early and then I feel like I failed at both health and enlightenment.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The conflation of spiritual practice with achievement-oriented goals transforms sacred discipline into another arena for self-judgment.

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