What you can do about Spiritual Bypassing? Carl Jung says, "What you resist, persists."  Spirituality can be messy. Many things happen to us that require more than positive thinking to heal, such as: Grief or trauma Being abused or neglected, Being betrayed or bullied or, Living with parents who had rage, mental illness, or substance abuse issues. If you are facing your shadow self, there's a lot of dark messy stuff there, from rage to sadness, to betrayal, disgust, guilt, an

Spiritual Bypassing is using spiritual practices and beliefs to avoid dealing with/ our painful feelings, unresolved wounds, and needs.