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Spiritual Awakening: Finding the Light Through the Dark

Spiritual Awakening: Finding the Light Through the Dark by Katy Bray. Photograph of the sun shining golden light through clouds by Marcus Dall
Photograph by Marcus Dall

After years of substance abuse and suffering and living with agoraphobia, one woman finally found the strength to step out and embrace her inner light

“You got yourself into this. You get yourself out.”

It came out of nowhere as I lay in bed, in my usual position, on a cold night in early January of 1998. Had I heard this voice a moment sooner, I would have hidden under my covers. Something was different about this moment somehow, but I couldn’t put my finger on it.I just knew

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