Spirituality – faith, presence, and caring for the soul

The Spirituality category brings together content on purpose, faith, meditation, and the search for meaning in the face of life’s challenges. The idea is to show how spiritual questions can support mental health care, without replacing professional treatment or imposing beliefs. The focus is always a respectful, inclusive approach aimed at a life with more presence and meaning.

Spirituality and mental health

For many people, well‑lived spirituality and religiosity are linked to a greater sense of belonging, social support, and emotional resilience. At the same time, spiritual conflicts, religious guilt, or experiences of abuse in faith communities can increase psychological suffering. The articles in this category help distinguish a spirituality that welcomes and strengthens from one that reinforces fear, shame, or harsh self‑criticism.

What you will find in this category

In this category, you will find articles on purpose, meaning in life, and how to rebuild them during times of crisis; faith, doubt, spiritual guilt, and making peace with your own story; contemplative practices such as meditation, prayer, mindfulness, and inner silence; and ways of integrating spirituality, science, and psychotherapy without falling into extremes. The content is designed to welcome people from different traditions – and also those who do not identify with any specific religion. The goal is to offer questions, paths, and tools for a kind of spirituality that fosters more compassion, presence, and responsibility toward yourself and others.

How to use this category and related pillars

To start, a good way to navigate this category is to read articles that discuss what healthy spirituality is and how it relates to mental health, and then move on to more specific topics such as grief and spirituality, crises of faith, meditative practices, or rebuilding meaning after trauma.

If you want to connect this spiritual dimension with other areas of life, it may help to explore some of the site’s thematic pillars, such as Burnout and well‑being at work: from exhaustion to care, which looks at meaning, values, and care in professional life, and Mental disorders: a guide to understanding, recognizing, and seeking help, which helps connect spiritual questions with symptoms and clinical care when needed.

For topics related to youth, social media, and the cultural environment around faith and identity, you can also visit A guide to mental health in the screen age, which explores how digital life and social change interact with emotional and spiritual well‑being.