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When others question your secular recovery success

I've been clean from drugs for two years without any twelve-step program and people keep telling me I need to surrender to a higher power or I'll relapse.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Personal achievement gets undermined when others cannot accept non-religious paths to transformation and healing.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Atheist and secular identity?”

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