Spiritual bypass and arrested development

Thank you to everyone who’s already read and responded to my IG and FB post from last night. It’s barely been up 8 hours, and I’ve already received such encouraging feedback.

It’s not that I’m a stranger to speaking my truth or addressing the more difficult topics, but we can only speak from where we are, so the fact that I’ve continued to do my own work on these themes has resulted in me having an even broader and deeper perspective.

If you’ve enjoyed following the journey on social media. I encourage you to subscribe to and share the blog. For everything I’ve written, there are 10 things I’ve kept to myself, so let’s just say the blog is about to get a lot more. ..bloggier 🙃

As for this picture, it is my childhood Christmas tree that I picked out at the Wal-Mart in Smyrna, TN around the age of 10 or 11.

I dug it out of a Rubbermaid container this past Christmas Eve around 7 pm and didn’t even bother to unfold the branches. The fact that it’s survived all these years is enough for me. It has value in its own right and is allowed to just show up and be in its natural state 🫠

It reminds me of childhood innocence and the importance of adults doing their own healing work in order to protect it.

As I said in the post last night: to avoid healing is to remain in a state of arrested development.

When adults are emotionally stunted, the children are left vulnerable and unprotected; and I would even go as far as saying they’re handed over- to individuals, to systems, to church “families,” to community programs, etc who do not have their best interests in mind.

Our world is in need of healed, empowered, educated, present, engaged, and FULLY-EMBODIED adults who have a true passion for creating safe and nurturing environments where children can thrive, and who aren’t afraid to say and do the hard things when needed.

In the next few weeks, I’ll be addressing the following on the blog: family dynamics that allow & support child sexual abuse (CSA), what creates a sexual predator and steps to heal it, how to support sexual trauma survivors, healing modalities that address trauma stored in the body, and spiritual warfare/entity attachments.