11/20/2025
Spirituality isnβt incense, crystals, or the perfect morning ritual. From a therapeutic lens, spirituality is the practice of remembering you are more than your wounds, more than your survival patterns, more than the roles you were handed.
It is the space between stimulus and response, where choice becomes possible.
Spirituality is the ongoing relationship you have with meaning.
Not answers, meaning. The way you make sense of your existence, your pain, your joy, your longing.
Some people find that meaning in God, others in nature, art, community, breath, or silence. Some find it in the ocean, getting knocked off a board again and again until their ego finally bows to something larger.
Therapeutically, spirituality is about expanding your identity beyond the protective parts of you. The anxious part, the avoidant part, the achiever, the caretaker, the perfectionist.
Those parts helped you survive, but they are not the whole story.
Spirituality is learning to sit with uncertainty without collapsing
to hold grief without becoming it, to feel joy without preparing for its disappearance, to let love in without bracing for loss.
Spirituality is not about becoming someone new.
It is about peeling back everything you built to protect yourself
and remembering who you were before the world told you who to be.
It is the slow practice of coming home to yourself, which is why Ram Dass says βWe are all just walking each other home.β
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