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When recovery meetings assume Christian spiritual framework

I've been going to AA meetings in this small town for two years but they always end with the Lord's Prayer and as the only Native person there I feel invisible when everyone assumes we share the same God.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Twelve-step programs' Christian underpinnings can alienate indigenous people seeking sobriety within their own spiritual traditions.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous spiritualities — North America?”

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