Recognizing this, when I went to rehab in 2012, I went with the mindset that I hoped to find an understanding of God to which I could connect, and thankfully the spiritual staff had a non religious member whom I sought out and introduced me to the soul contract concept and I took my first steps on the yellow brick road. Now, reading this with my editor's eye, knowing that there are many atheists that might read this, I would have suggested figuring out how to speak to them too. https://medium.com/illumination-curated/12-step-programs-god-problem-dea17a6e0536 If you simply added that none of the 12 principles of spiritual intelligence that you are about to list mention God, that would bring the atheist into the discussion