10. When “Everything Happens for a Reason” Stops Being Enough

What happens when a spiritual belief that once helped you survive no longer feels true? 

In this episode, I trace my gradual disentanglement from the frameworks that shaped my spiritual life—from growing up in an unconventional spiritual place of worship, to immersing myself in past-life regression and New Age spirituality, to eventually questioning one of the beliefs I had clung to most tightly: that everything happens for a reason and is always for our highest good.

For years, that belief helped me make sense of suffering, psychic upheaval, heartbreak, and profound uncertainty. But it als...