What is spiritual harassment?

Any attempt to exert power and control over someone using religion, faith, or beliefs can be spiritual abuse. Spiritual abuse can happen within a religious organization or a personal relationship. Spiritual abuse is not limited to one religion, denomination, or group of people.

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What is toxic spirituality?

If you have the belief that you must ALWAYS be positive and anything negative is bad, then you are practicing toxic spirituality. What makes this belief so toxic is that we prevent our own learning and growing by suppressing emotions that actually benefit us. Each one of our emotions carries information. What is spiritual violence? Spiritual (or religious) violence occurs when someone uses a person's spiritual beliefs to manipulate, dominate or control the person.

What is an example of spiritual bypassing?

Some examples of spiritual bypassing include: Avoiding feelings of anger. Believing in your own spiritual superiority as a way to hide from insecurities. Believing that traumatic events must serve as "learning experiences" or that there is a silver lining behind every negative experience. One may also ask what is spiritual trauma? Spiritual trauma occurs as a result of events that threaten and damage our core spiritual values and goals. This can be a result of either abuse by religious/spiritual figures or being raised with a toxic and overbearing interpretation of that religion or spiritual belief.

Correspondingly, what is religious trauma?

Religious Trauma Syndrome (RTS) is group of symptoms that arise in response to traumatic or stressful religious experiences. And many other symptoms of PTSD including nightmares, flashbacks, dissociation, emotional difficulty, etc.