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Why financial recovery can trigger shame about past harm

I have money saved for the first time in years but I feel guilty spending it on anything nice because I remember stealing from people when I was using.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Present success becomes contaminated by memories of past moral failures, complicating the experience of progress.

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