Modern spirituality promises freedom, peace, and healing — yet many people quietly feel more tense, self-monitoring, and emotionally exhausted than before they ever began their inner work. Instead of relief, there’s pressure. Instead of trust, there’s constant correction. Feelings are no longer something to listen to, but something to manage, elevate, or justify.
This expert talk explores how spiritual and wellness culture has reshaped emotional life into a form of discipline. Words like alignment, high vibration, healing, and manifestation are often used to override emotional truth rather than meet it, turning inner experience into something that must remain acceptable at all times. What’s framed as growth frequently becomes emotional compliance.
Lyn and Paul unpack why joy disappears when it becomes performative, how forced positivity keeps the nervous system dysregulated, and what happens when inner authority is quietly replaced by spiritual obedience. This is not an argument against spirituality — it’s an invitation to recognise where it has stopped listening and started controlling.
The conversation that follows isn’t designed to comfort. It’s designed to clarify.
