Listed below are the top ten symptoms of emotionally unhealthy spirituality identified by Pete Scazerro, the author of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. Which symptoms do you recognize in your life?
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1. Using God to run from God
2. Ignoring the emotions of anger, sadness and fear
3. Dying to the wrong things
4. Denying the past’s impact on the present
5. Dividing life into ‘secular’ and ‘sacred’ compartments
6. Doing for God instead of being with God
7. Spiritualizing away conflict–avoiding truth just to keep peace
8. Covering over brokenness, weakness and failure
9. Living without limits – you try to ‘do it all’
10. Judging the spiritual journeys of other people.