Spiritual Growth Will Cost You Relationships
2/19/202656 min
In this episode of WE, Joe Mittiga dives into a powerful truth: spiritual growth doesn’t just change your life — it changes your relationships.
Joe unpacks the difference between enlightenment (becoming aware) and true spiritual growth (actually changing), and explains why the real relationship you lose isn’t always external — it’s the old version of yourself. As you shift from fear-based, “glass empty” thinking to heart-led, “glass full” living, your guidance system changes — and so does your world.
This conversation explores why growth can feel lonely and painful, how internal transformation reshapes your external relationships, and t...
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[gentle music] If you felt lonely, isolated, disconnected, with an empty feeling inside, and just yearning for more, knowing something is missing, then this podcast is for you. So here's your host, Joe Mittiga.
Joe Mittiga· Host0:20
[gentle music] Hello, and welcome to WE. My name is Joe Mittiga, and I'm the host of the WE podcast. I'm really happy that everyone's here today, and, you know, I've got a great topic. The topic for today is when spiritual growth costs you relationships. And I remember thinking about that in the beginning of my path, and I thought, "You know, what is this whole spiritual growth concept? Like, what the heck is it?" And, you know, you hear that term thrown around in the world, "I'm enlightened. I'm growing. We're growing. We're on a spiritual path. Follow Jesus, follow this, follow that." But what does it truly mean? And then quite honestly, as you do it, what is the actual consequence? And that's what today's episode is all about. So welcome to WE. Welcome to the show, and I'm just really, really glad you're here.