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Why spiritual recovery programs can alienate secular participants

Everyone in my NA group talks about finding God but I am an atheist and I feel like I am doing recovery wrong somehow.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Prescribed pathways to healing may exclude those whose worldview doesn't align with dominant spiritual frameworks.

Ideas that help explain it
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