7 Comments
User's avatar
Leo in L.A.'s avatar

So nice to hear people sharing this process.

Struggle as spiritual assignment, no thank you! I totally get this. Getting off the spiritual progression train was the best thing I ever did. There's no such thing as the spiritual life. All life is spiritual. We don't need to join a club or profess mastery of a modality or belief system, and label it spiritual. 💕

Expand full comment
Sherry Lynn's avatar

Totally. That whole framework, struggle as proof of devotion, it did a number on me. Getting off that “spiritual path” wasn’t me giving up, it was me finally landing in something real. And yeah, I’m with you… there’s no separate spiritual life. There’s just life. All of it. The rest was performance. Glad you felt this one.

Expand full comment
Leo in L.A.'s avatar

Yeah, when you described it as performance, that really expressed what I see on Substack a lot.

Expand full comment
Sherry Lynn's avatar

Agree! A lot.

Expand full comment
Saved by Grace's avatar

'I was done killing myself to become worthy of enough'....that landed!

Expand full comment
Sherry Lynn's avatar

I knew when that line flowed through me that those who had lived it would feel it. 🩷

Expand full comment
Stephanie Elizabeth's avatar

🩷

Expand full comment