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When friends ask for spiritual guidance you're not sure you have

My closest friend is going through a spiritual crisis and keeps asking me what I believe about God and meaning, but I realize I've been giving her the answers I think will help rather than what I actually think, and now I feel like I'm lying to both of us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

One person is trying to help another by offering certainty they don't possess, creating a dynamic where both people become estranged from their authentic spiritual experience.

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