Hello, dear listeners and welcome to Inner Work, Spiritual Growth Podcast.

I'm your host, Josephine, a second-generation intuitive healer, an English PhD, who taught college

for nine years before transitioning to spiritual work full-time.

I now specialize in helping type A and highly sensitive women, including empaths,

let go of perfectionism, release shame, and transform their inner critics into inner allies.

To find out more or join the tribe, visit www.purefieldhealing.com or contact me directly at purefieldhealing at gmail.com. As always, those links will be

in the show notes. And now, on to the show. Hello, my dearest listeners and welcome to a new episode of Inner Work.

Today we're tackling a topic that often comes up with my individual clients and the people that I work with.

And it's this question of what to do or how to deal when you are spiritual, but your family isn't.

Now, I believe that there are a few strategies you can use to handle the situation.

And of course, it depends on your specific circumstances.

But we're going to be going through these strategies, which of course you can adapt if necessary

to whatever is going on in your own life.

And we're going to be going through those in just a little bit. But first, I want to ask you a question about the state of your spirituality today in regards to your own family.

So in other words, the question is, are you open about your spirituality and spiritual

journey with your family? Or is this something that you're sort of doing on your own, in

private, something that you don't feel you can really share? And I know that's the case for a lot

of people out there. So obviously, there's a difference, know, in terms of do you feel that you have to hide your spirituality and do your spiritual practices in secret?

Is there a sense of shame about that?

Because of course, part of the spiritual journey is healing some of those negative human emotions

like shame, like fear, guilt, and this feeling that you have to hide who you are,

or that you have to keep yourself small or invisible

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