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Your Spiritual Awakening May Be The Worst Thing Ever

There was so much pain.

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Joe Gibson
May 16, 2022
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At the time of my “awakening”, I had no idea I was going through it. I’d hit rock bottom mentally. Unresolved issues from childhood had manifested in a pretty nasty OCD disorder that ravaged my logical brain and had me doubting myself to be a terrible person. *OCD is often referred to as the “doubting” disease where suff…

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