Episode 284: Stop Chasing Spiritual Highs: Why Real Healing Happens in the Ordinary
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Dr. Greg discusses the importance of finding healing in everyday moments rather than in extraordinary spiritual experiences.
Your prayer life can be how you avoid healing. In this final episode of the antisocial series, Dr. Greg unpacks why a retreat high or a powerful devotional moment can convince you the healing is done — when the actual work hasn't started yet, and why that work happens in the small, unglamorous moments nobody puts on a holy card. Key Topics: Why the most moving retreat of your life can leave you exactly the same — and what actually changes you What "magical penance" reveals about the parts of us that prefer grand gestures to real repair Why healing happens in what you do on an ordinary Tuesday, not in the moments when everything breaks open How a soft heart and a defenseless heart are not the same thing — and why that distinction changes everything Why the urge to be "healed already" is itself a form of the pattern you're trying to change Why re-hardening after you've opened up isn't failure — it's part of doing the reps Learn More: Earlier in this series on the Antisocial Defense Patterns: Antisocial Part 1 — Ep. #281: Control or Be Controlled: The Devastating Wounds Behind Antisocial Behavioral Patterns Antisocial Part 2 — Ep. #282: You're (Probably) Not a Serial Killer—But You…
More episodes of Being Human
- Episode 288: Why "Everything Happens for a Reason" Isn't Working: The Holy Words We Use to Avoid Healing
- Episode 287: We Are Not Robots: Why Connection Is Not Optional for Human Flourishing
- Episode 286: A Mental Tug of War: Inside the Avoidant Mind and the Burden of Being Known
- Episode 285: Venting Isn't Always Healing: The Difference Between Sharing Truth and Feeding Resentment
- Episode 283: "I Will Never Be Hurt Again": How Jesus' Sacred Heart Breaks the Cycle
- Episode 282: You're (Probably) Not a Serial Killer—But You May Share Some of Their Antisocial Traits
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