Category Archives: Step 3: Breaking Free
Who Stole My Peace?
Are you like me? Is stress a frequent problem in your life? Do you catch yourself worrying just a little too often? Do you get that anxious and unsettled feeling? Do you sometimes lash out in frustration? Are those moments of feeling calm, peaceful and untroubled, a little less frequent than you’d like? The more…
Hang on, or Let go?
We’ve probably all heard about the importance of perseverance in recovery. We’ve been told we need to hang on and never give up. If we slip or fall, we need to pick ourselves up, brush ourselves off and keep trying. My husband’s recovery from sexual addiction required many, many of those “do-overs.” He, like so…
No Condemnation
My grown son, who lives over an hour away from us, called one day, not so long ago, with distressing news. Evidently their Associate Pastor had been arrested and charged with commercial sex abuse of a minor for responding to an ad in a police teen prostitution sting. His family, the church and the entire…
Beginning to Heal
A series of family emergencies have stolen my blogging time these past few weeks. I hope to be back posting more consistently again very soon but, in the meantime, I ran into this quote that I want to share with you. “Until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You…
The Perfect Recovery
Let’s get honest with ourselves. Life will never be perfect. We will never be perfect. Our recovery will never be perfect. And yet . . . deep down we still expect perfection, from ourselves, from others and from the situations that we’re in. As long as we hold on to that standard it will keep…
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