Selling Salvation
In any time of crisis (like now), there is no shortage of people (usually men) who step forward with seeming solutions to your woes. Sometimes they are true snake oil salesmen, and sometimes they are well-meaning, but dangerous purveyors of a kind of certainty that offers us temporary relief from our exhaustion, but no real sense of ourselves. These people are usually charismatic interpreters rather than regulating elders. Their goal is to keep you, whether they know it or not, dysregulated and dependent on their output.
When Healing Gets Hijacked by the Ego
Healing is not the purpose of my life. Living in joy, connection, and community is the purpose of my life. Healing exists to remove the obstacles between myself and that purpose. When I make healing my personality, I’m no longer clearing obstacles; I’m adding one more.