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How to Distinguish Between Spiritual Growth and Emotional Avoidance

My therapist says my sudden interest in Buddhism might be spiritual bypassing but sitting meditation is the only thing that quiets the noise in my head after my divorce.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sometimes what appears to be escape is actually the soul's first tentative steps toward wholeness.

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