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When friendships forged in spiritual crisis struggle to survive healing

My closest friends and I went through a really dark period together a few years ago and we supported each other by diving deep into spiritual seeking, but now that we're in better places individually we don't know how to be together without crisis as our bond. We keep trying to manufacture the intensity we had when we needed each other desperately and it feels forced and sad.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A circle of friends learning that recovery can threaten bonds that trauma created.

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