Episode 47: Spiritual Bypassing vs. Embodied Faith & How Not to Harm Those Who Are Hurting, Including Yourself
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Show Notes
This week on the podcast, we're kicking off a mini 2-episode series on loving our bodies as a spiritual practice. Today, I dig into the problem of over-spiritualizing and how that does harm to ourselves and to others. Here's what we cover:
1. What is spiritual bypassing?
2. Does every problem have a spiritual solution?
3. How we spiritually bypass ourselves
4. How not to be a "friend of Job"
5. The antidote to spiritual bypassing
6. An example of spiritual bypassing from the Bible
Find a full transcript and list of resources from this episode here.
Related episodes:
Episode 46: People Pleasing as Survival, How Jesus Regulated Emotions & the Problem With Toxic Positivity and Spiritual Bypassing with Aundi Kolber
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