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When spiritual beliefs interfere with necessary healing

My teenage daughter started following this online spiritual influencer who teaches that suffering is just an illusion, and now she refuses therapy for her eating disorder.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The dangerous gap that opens when spiritual concepts are used to deny the reality of psychological wounds.

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