I am a woman in long-term recovery, and I believe in a higher power that has nothing to do with organized religion. Most days my higher power is something related to the divine feminine; other days it's the ocean, an astonishingly beautiful sunrise, or something else in nature, and sometimes it's my dead mother.
I learned early in my recovery that I didn't have to define my higher power but that I might benefit from believing that somewhere outside of myself there is an energy or force that I can tap into to feel comfort, to receive inner guidance, or to express gratitude. My concept of this higher power and what it brings into my life is dependable but malleable.
Like everything in recovery, choosing whether to have a higher power (or not) or deciding what that looks like is completely up to us. Everything about this works for me.
Some days my higher power is a goddess; other days it's a lilac bush. Both are valid.