Spiritual Awakening
Surrender, prayer, humility, forgiveness, integrity, and connection with a higher reality are described as supports for sustainable sobriety. The article argues that recovery is not reducible to willpower. Some claims in the article depend…
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Surrender, prayer, humility, forgiveness, integrity, and connection with a higher reality are described as supports for sustainable sobriety. The article argues that recovery is not reducible to willpower. Some claims in the article depend on a spiritual worldview rather than conventional clinical evidence. Alcoholics Anonymous is framed as seeking spiritual awakening without continued reliance on substance use. Spiritual experience is presented as a major recovery mechanism.