How Your Spirituality and Identity Are Related
Spiritual growth is about developing your spiritual identity.
Spirituality is about seeing beyond yourself and appreciating the sacred. Because of this, we’re used to thinking of spirituality as a calming and reaffirming practice.
However, sometimes spirituality is a challenge. Everything we believe or how we approach what we believe begins to feel wrong and we often don’t know what to do about it.
When you’re unsure about your spiritual growth, that’s when you’re suffering from a spiritual identity crisis. This is when the relationship between your spirituality and identity has been broken.
But what’s happening exactly and why?
An Identity Crisis is a Spiritual Crisis
It’s not uncommon for a middle-aged person to feel “stuck.” They reach a point in their lives when they look back on how they lived and feel unsatisfied with where they’re going. They no longer feel like they’re in control and that can be disorienting.
The mid-life identity crisis is usually resolved by a lot of soul-searching and some hilarious decisions that will seem ridiculous in hindsight. Yet it usually helps a person reconcile who they were in the past and who they want to be…
