When life gets hard — a difficult patch at work, a relationship falling apart, a run of bad luck, an illness no one can name — people often turn to a psychic or spiritual reading, hoping to find a way through. What most are actually dealing with, whether they use the term or not, is spiritual distress : the sense that something deeper is off, that the usual answers are not working, that they need a different kind of map. I want to explain what spiritual distress really is, wh
