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When Spirituality Becomes Spiritual Bypassing

My therapist says I have spiritual bypassing tendencies and now I'm second-guessing whether my meditation practice is just elaborate avoidance of real problems.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The therapeutic lens reframes spiritual practice as psychological defense, destabilizing the seeker's trust in their own inner work.

Ideas that help explain it
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