The Ten Top Symptoms of Emotionally Unhealthy Spirituality:
- Using God to Run from God,
- Ignoring the Ungodly Emotions of Anger, Sadness, and Fear,
- Dying to the Wrong Things,
- Denying the Past’s Impact on the Present,
- Dividing Our Lives into “Secular” and “Sacred” Compartments,
- Doing for God Instead of Being with God,
- Spiritualizing Away Conflict,
- Covering over Brokenness, Weakness, and Failure,
- Living without Limits,
- Judging Other People’s Spiritual Journey’
– Chapter 2 of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality (Nelson, 2006) Pete Scazzero