Is Your Spiritual Belief Helping You Heal or Keeping You Stuck?

What if half of what we call “spiritual truth” is actually unhealed trauma talking?

We’ve all heard them – spiritual one-liners thrown around like universal truths:

“You can’t change other people.”
“Everything happens for a reason.”
“Raise your vibe and you’ll attract better.”
“If you’re triggered, it’s your shadow.”
“You create your reality.”

I believed them. I shared them.
Hell, I built parts of my work around them.
And in some ways, they helped.

But lately… I’ve been calling BS.

Not because I’ve given up on growth or healing – quite the opposite.
Because I’ve gone deeper.
Because I’ve seen the damage these half-truths can do when they become gospel.
Because I’ve watched people blame themselves for pain they didn’t cause, and I’ve felt the shame of thinking I was the problem – when actually, the problem was never mine to carry.

Let’s unpick a few, shall we?

1. “You can’t change other people, only yourself.”

This one sounds wise – and in many cases, it is.
But when someone is in a harmful or toxic dynamic, this advice becomes spiritual gaslighting. It tells them to look within instead of seeing the clear dysfunction outside them. And don't get me wrong, sometimes we need to look within first to see the truth on the outside.

I once gave this advice to a friend trying everything to save her marriage. She did deep inner work. She healed trauma. She held compassion. But he was emotionally immature and unwilling to meet her. In the end, she had to leave – and he was the problem.

Here’s what’s more true:

✅ Healing ourselves can shift our experience.
❌ But some people are committed to staying the same – and no amount of inner work will change that.

Sometimes the work is walking away, not taking more responsibility.

2. “Everything happens for a reason.”

This used to be my mantra.
I found comfort in the idea that every challenge held a hidden lesson.

When I was at University I remember a friend saying 'does everything in your life have meaning Vicky?' and I found it such a strange question, why wouldn't it? Did everything in her life not have meaning?

But now?

Now I let myself say: “It is what it is.”

Not because I’ve lost faith – but because I’ve found presence.

Some things don’t make sense. Some things are just painful.
Yes, meaning can come later but trying to find it too soon can bypass the grief, the anger, and the very real human experience of it.

3. “Raise your vibration and attract better.”

This is where I really started to unravel.
Because I did raise my vibe. I did the work.
And still… money didn’t come. Energy crashed. Life stayed hard.

Turns out, it wasn’t a vibe issue.

It was my nervous system.
It was hormones.
It was survival mode.

I even made a product on “raising your vibe” but none of the tools worked for me anymore. Not because they were wrong, but because I needed something deeper.

You don’t need to vibe higher – you need to feel safe.
Safe in your body, safe with your emotions, safe to be where you are.

4. “If you’re triggered, it’s your stuff.”

Sometimes, yes. Triggers can show us where we’re unhealed.
But other times? They show us that someone has crossed a boundary, acted unethically, or is simply out of alignment.

This idea has been weaponised by the coaching world – especially when clients speak up.

“It didn’t work?” - “Must be your mindset.” “You’re just triggered.”

No. Sometimes you’re just right. Sometimes you’re being gaslit. Sometimes the coach isn’t in integrity.

We need to stop calling everything a projection. Sometimes it’s just… the truth.

5. “You create your reality.”

This sounds empowering – until it’s not.

When someone is doing everything to shift their life – journaling, affirming, visualising, working on their mindset – and it’s still not changing fast enough… it can feel like personal failure.

But the truth is:

Not everything is a mindset issue.

Sometimes it’s nervous system dysregulation.
Sometimes it’s burnout.
Sometimes it’s hormone shifts, generational patterns, survival mode, or emotional exhaustion that no vision board can fix.

Telling someone “you create your reality” without acknowledging the real layers of what they’re carrying adds shame to struggle and keeps them stuck.

The reframe?

We are co-creators.
But sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is meet ourselves with compassion, rather than trying to manifest our way out of pain we haven’t fully processed yet.

What if we let it all be more human?

Maybe the real spiritual truth is this:

We’re not here to bypass pain – we’re here to walk through it with open eyes and tender hearts.
We’re not meant to fix everything – we’re meant to witness, to hold, to choose.
And we’re definitely not here to carry the weight of other people’s wounds as if they’re our own to heal.

This isn’t about turning against spirituality.
It’s about deepening it.
Stripping away the fluff. Ditching the shame.
Coming back to something raw, real, and rooted in compassion.

We’re allowed to evolve.
We’re allowed to outgrow truths that no longer fit.
And we’re allowed to say:

“I used to believe that. But now, I know better.”

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Which of these 'truths' resonated with you the most? leave a comment, I'd love to hear from you.

With love and some true truths,

Vicky x