Spiritual Bypassing - What it is and why it's not serving you!

In this brief talk, I discuss the nature of spiritual bypassing and how it can happen to the best of us without awareness. I explain what to look for and why it's so important to ensure we maintain integrity with our process and establish a solid foundation for healing.
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[@coach_amy]

I love this encouraging video. I'm glad you're talking about this topic. Addressing it at a different angle: I have a few relatives (aunts and uncle) who I have really wanted to delve into with regarding similar family trauma. But they seem to use their spirituality as a way to make them kind of unreachable for me. It feels like dissociation.
Up until not long ago, I kept trying to get emotionally closer and delve deeper with them even though... This is a trauma response by me, I finally see. I am the scapegoat for my family of origin; and my trauma has been my being gaslit, stonewalled, smeared by family of origin.
As such, my needs to be believed, related to, and known are what kept me trying with all of these people--not just with my family of origin and ex partners, but also with the spiritual aunts and uncle who I mentioned. I kept trying and not knowing what was wrong. I really like these 3 people, but they can only go so far as they hide behind their spiritual "enlightenment." It's made me so sad.
It's hard when my intuition tells me people "know" and they "get it" because they've lived it, but yet they won't go there.
I finally get it. No more dissociative people for me--beyond very casually. I think about what you said in another video: I am just open for people who are my match. No desperation about it; just finding my own inner peace as I heal my trauma and accept who I am, being so gentle and understanding with myself. Thank you!

[@SabrinaRising]

Amy, I love this so much. Thank you for sharing your process so beautifully. I applaud your awareness and understanding of the necessary boundaries to establish in relationships. While it can be clear that some people use bypassing as a form of dissociation, they are also unconsciously perhaps trying to protect themselves from feeling their own pain. You are correct in that it makes people feel unreachable - when we close ourselves from pain, we also close ourselves off from love. Keep up the brave work you are doing and advocating for your needs with those who are capable of meeting you there.