She Deserves Better

There's a term for using religious language to avoid dealing with uncomfortable emotions, spiritual bypassing psychotherapist John Wellwood. Spiritual bypassing focuses on spiritual platitudes, which may even be true, but ignores the deeper truth of God's compassion for us. If your daughter is crying over her weebies on picture day because she woke up with a zip on her nose and you tell her Jesus can handle that, you're spiritually bypassing her. It might be helpful for your daughter to meditate on his eye is on the sparrow when she is feeling stressed out,. But telling her you don't need to be stressed because his eye ison the sparrow is invalidating. Shut