Months before he became health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared his moving conversion story, expressing that belief in God helped break his longtime heroin addiction that began when he was a boy, the year after his father’s tragic murder.
“We grow through pain,” Kennedy told podcast host Sage Steele. “Pain is ultimately the touchstone of spiritual growth, and addicts have a unique opportunity for redemption because they’ve been to hell.”
Kennedy said his faith in God came gradually, beginning at age 28, first after reading the work of renowned Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. Kennedy said Jung reported that after observing tens of thousands of psychiatric patients, he concluded that people who believe in God got better faster.
