Learn about a symposium on spiritual bypassing in situations of grief and bereavement and why it’s important to look at this.
About the guest:
My return guest this week is Dr. Terri Daniel who is an end-of-life educator, inter-spiritual hospice chaplain, and grief counselor. She is the founder of the Conference on Death, Grief and Belief and the Ask Doctor Death podcast. Over the years she has helped thousands of people learn to live, die and grieve more consciously while exploring the intersection of psychology and spirituality, and the influence of toxic theology on the experience of dying and grieving. She is the author of four books on death and grief. Today we discuss spiritual bypassing which is the focus of Terri’s upcoming online Symposium on July 25th. Learn more about the Symposium and Terri’s work at the website:
In this episode:
- What is spiritual bypassing?
- There is both positive and negative religious coping
- Positive coping involves taking action toward restoration
- When spiritual bypassing may serve a positive purpose
- Bereavement assessment tools and their usefulness
- Characteristics of various types of spiritual struggle
- Prolonged grief vs complicated grief
- The importance of community and ritual for addressing grief
- Instrumental vs intuitive grieving
- Some questions like “Why did God let this happen” can never be answered
Links for this episode:
Resources:
- Register for the Symposium here
- Book: Wild and Holy – A Journey Through Grief, Guilt, and Grace in Italy
- Substack Post: How the Fear of Death Makes Us Easier to Manipulate
- What Really Matters Podcast: What’s the Difference Between Belief and Faith?
- What Really Matters Podcast: What is Toxic Positivity?
Related Episodes:
- How Religion Can Harm the Grief Process with Terri Daniel
- Understanding the Fear of Death with Kelvin Chin
Other Links:
- 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying by Karen Wyatt MD
- Latest post on Substack: Grief Stew, Bypassing Pain, and Talking to AI
- What Really Matters Podcast: Grieving the Chosen Goodbye
- Leave me a message by email: kwyattmd@comcast.net, Twitter, Facebook or Instagram
- Support your local bookstore by buying my books on Bookshop and Indiebound: 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying and The Journey from Ego to Soul
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