Why we do way more than just healing

“You’re not healing to handle the trauma, you know how to do that already. You’re healing to handle the joy.”

Don't get me wrong. I've got nothing against true healing. We all need it. But it has nothing to do with doing our work and it can be a colossal exercise in Resistance. Resistance loves "healing." Resistance knows that the more psychic energy we expend dredging and re-dredging the tired, boring injustices of our personal lives, the less j

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I can't stress this enough If your spiritual practice is not deepening your honesty, making you braver in relationship, bringing you closer to the beautiful mess of real human connection, it's not helping you Chasing holiness, righteousness and bliss will keep you shallow

Perhaps you are pulled down by the spirit of perfectionism 

or by the spirit of addiction 

or by the spirit of comparison 

or by the spirit of unmet expectations 

or by the spirit of arrogance 

or by the spirit of self-pity or self-loathing 

or pulled down by the spirit of a world that will break your heart and tell you it doesn’t matter (I myself have f... See more