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When recovery language doesn't match your spiritual worldview

My therapist suggests I explore my 'higher power' but that concept feels like patriarchal God-language in disguise and makes me angry rather than comforted.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Therapeutic frameworks rooted in traditional religious concepts can alienate those whose spirituality exists outside hierarchical power structures.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Spiritual-but-not-religious identity?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.