My recovery coach and I come from very different cultural backgrounds and I'm not sure they understand how my family's relationship to addiction and shame affects my recovery process. I want to address this but I'm worried about making them defensive or seeming ungrateful.
More people experience this than they realize.
A helping relationship is limited by unacknowledged cultural gaps that affect how recovery, family, and healing are understood.
“Where Are You with Recovery identity — from addiction?”
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