The soul theoretically is the purview of religion. But in today’s society, relatively few people look to religion to truly heal their despair — and for understandable reason. In most ways organized religion has abdicated its role of spiritual comforter, if not through its own malfeasance, the at least through dissociation from the soulfulness at the core of its mission. Modern psychotherapy has taken up some the slack, and yet it too fails deliver when it doesn the soult necessary to heal our emotional pain. The psychotherapeutic profession has now turned to the pharmaceutical industry to compensate for its frequent lack of effectiveness, yet the pharmaceutical industry lacks the ability to do more about our sadness than to numb it. Marianne Williamson
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Psychotherapy is a much more popular approach to dealing with depression than medication. Psychotherapy, which is defined as the treatment of psychological disorders through psychological counseling or psychotherapy, is held in high esteem by many people. But one could argue that if psychotherapy is so good at treating anxiety, depression and other psychological disorders, why would it be so difficult for it to do the same for emotional pain? And wouldn’t it be better if it were able to address emotional pain as well as emotional disorders?

Source: Tears To Triumph: The Spiritual Journey From Suffering To Enlightenment

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