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When recovery programs require faith you don't have

Everyone at my AA meeting talks about their higher power and I feel like I can't get sober without believing in God but I just don't.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Healing becomes complicated when dominant support systems assume spiritual beliefs that feel inauthentic.

Ideas that help explain it
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