Dallas Bragg warns that real spiritual growth isn't constant positivity. As your perspective shifts, you confront old trauma and beliefs, uprooting core parts of your identity. The transformation is painful and physically unsettling, not the rainbows-and-butterflies version most people imagine.
Hey, if you're walking a spiritual path, I want to remind you that spiritual growth requires growing pains. Please don't feel the pressure to always be in a state of rainbows and butterflies and smiling and in a good mood and pleasant to be around. That does not equal a spiritual person. You're going to have spiritual pains, which means that you are changing from one perspective of life to another. Which means your entire identity is going to be uprooted. That can be challenging emotionally. You are uprooting memories and old ways of being and beliefs that are rooted in trauma. This is not a happy process. It's hard. And it can be painful emotionally. And then you have your physical pains. When you are embarking on
