Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

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8 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Josh Trent arguing that certain relational traumas cannot be healed without entering committed relationships. The speakers contend many people turn to spirituality to avoid vulnerability in human relationships, which can perpetuate unmet relational needs instead of resolving them.

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We just cannot heal certain aspects of relational trauma unless we are in committed relationship. There is one way of thinking where it's like love and light and everything you need is within your heart. Not the case. If you have trauma around relationships, you have to be in that round circle of relationship to heal it.
Exactly. We are running away from the vulnerability of relationship. The vast majority of people who are pushed towards the spiritual field are pushed there because of relational trauma. They've experienced enough pain with people that they're no longer looking to people for their answers. They're looking to connect with something else. Usually that's when people turn to the spiritual realm, right? They're like, oh, I can now disconnect from other people in human relationships, and I can be in connection with myself and in connection with God and tell myself all kinds of stories based on even true principles that exist about the universe that enable me to be avoidant of relationships and make it so that I'm never back in that vulnerable position that I'm in a relationship. But you can't eradicate your needs that way.