Have you been unable to heal this relationship through universal spiritual practices such as prayer, forgiveness, release, acceptance, and loving-kindness?

If so, Bethany Gonyea suggests you are being called to expand your consciousness to an advanced level of discernment far beyond social media spiritual memes and modern secular psychological constructs.

Challenging relationships offer a rare opportunity to evoke our soul's correct use of power by providing the precise feedback needed to establish energetic integrity, which increases our empowered options in the physical world.

In the second book of her Consciousness Athlete series, Dealing with Difficult People for Spiritual People, Bethany Gonyea emboldens us in dark places with her signature teaching style of blending evidence-based mundane research with experience-based consciousness-expanding knowledge and meditations. Bethany reminds us that the irritation of sand in a shell is the beginning of a premium pearl.

Similarly, challenging relationships provide the sand that generates the opportunity to cultivate the "pearl of great price" of heightened awareness. She assures us that our epic journey is complete when we can leave the relationship as "friends and equals." We move from victim to master as we shift our identity to our invincible eternal nature.

Bethany Gonyea, MS, has taught Biofeedback, meditation, and consciousness expansion for over thirty years. She is the author of, Become A Consciousness Athlete: A Step By Step Program to Heighten Consciousness for Daily Happiness. She is the founder of the Resonant Peaceful Cities Project, which performs research studies to measure the effect of synchronized meditation on reducing violence at the city level.