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How Chronic Illness Affects Traditional Healing Credibility

I feel called to traditional healing work but I'm HIV positive and worry that people won't trust a healer who couldn't prevent their own illness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Physical illness challenges credibility in healing roles, revealing tensions between personal suffering and spiritual authority.

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