INNER REVOLUTION: 14 - Using the spiritual path for GENUINE healing (while avoiding spiritual bypassing)
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This is episode 14 of INNER REVOLUTION - a podcast series where we walk through the fire of inner transformation and awakening together.
The purpose of this series is to help you shed ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING that isn't a true reflection of Who You Really Are, so you can fully embody your Divinity, Light, and Sacred Mission.
In this 14th installment, we'll discuss how we can use the spiritual path for genuine healing while avoiding spiritual bypassing.
Join me for this episode on:
- what is spiritual bypassing? with specific examples of how it might show up
- the dangers & pitfalls of using spirituality to try to numb, escape from, avoid, ignore, or bypass reality
- the dangers of looking too quickly for a "silver lining" in our human challenges and experiences
- integrating your spirituality into daily life in grounded, practical, tangible ways
- setting clear intentions for HOW & WHY we use spiritual tools, practices, and concepts
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Music & editing by G. Demers
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| 0:00.0 | This is Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast, a sanctuary for healers, lightworkers, and spiritual |
| 0:11.9 | practitioners here to raise consciousness on this planet. You've come to the right place to heal yourself |
| 0:19.6 | and fully awaken your unique gifts, so you can show up to serve others as powerfully and purposefully as possible. |
| 0:29.4 | I am your host, Josephine Hartman, a certified intuitive healer and Akashik Records Master Teacher. |
| 0:37.2 | I'm honored you're here and delighted to walk with you on your path for a little while. |
| 0:43.0 | To connect with me and explore ways of working together, please head over to josephinehartman.com. |
| 1:00.3 | Hello, fellow seeker and traveler on the spiritual path. |
| 1:10.9 | Welcome to episode 14 of our ongoing Inner Revolution series here on the Inner Work podcast. |
| 1:17.2 | Whether this is your first time tuning in or whether you've been here with me for a long time, I am so grateful for your presence here. |
| 1:22.3 | Your decision to tune into this episode to spend some time together means the world to me. |
| 1:31.3 | So welcome, come on in. |
| 1:34.1 | Our really important topic for today is avoiding spiritual bypassing and being able to identify spiritual bypassing and course correct as we walk the |
| 1:50.9 | spiritual path. And I say, you know, this is an important topic because sometimes in the |
| 1:59.9 | spiritual community, there can be this tendency to believe or promote the idea |
| 2:09.3 | that we can solve everything with love and light, or that we just have to think positive or put out positive vibes, |
| 2:21.1 | positive vibes only, right, that kind of mentality or tendency to avoid or bypass. |
| 2:31.0 | Some of the difficult emotions we sometimes experience as humans or to come to terms |
| 2:39.2 | with challenging experiences from the past or the present, and to really stay committed to |
| 2:48.3 | walking the path with radical honesty, radical integrity, and really a commitment |
| 2:57.0 | to making our spirituality as grounded in reality as possible so that we're not just using spirituality to escape reality or to try to |
| 3:13.6 | numb ourselves. So psychologist John Wellwood coined this term spiritual bypass, in the 1980s. |
| 3:25.3 | And we can define spiritual bypassing as the process or behavior of using spiritual language, |
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