Category Archives: Step 3: Breaking Free
You CAN Get it Back!
Addictions and compulsions steal from us. I think it’s that acknowledgment that helps us move toward recovery. What has been taken from you? What is it that you want back? No, really . . . think about it. What is your heart’s desire? Do you want freedom? A restored marriage? A better relationship with God?…
Winning the Battle Within
Over the years your brain has become programmed to RUN to the addiction or other coping method whenever you’re feeling “off balance”— whether those unsettled feelings come from anxiety, fear, boredom or loneliness. To attempt to do anything else brings feelings of impending doom. Your addictive impulses can be so strong that you wonder whether…
Taking the Power Away
Fear. EVERY human being has it. The minute Adam and Eve opened the door to sin, fear became a part of the human existence. The minute they chose to disobey, they were instantly afraid and hid from God. Ever since that fateful day, humans have been fearful, but not everyone acknowledges it. Some of us…
Progress, not Perfection
Recovery, like so many other important things in our life, is a process. We don’t just wake up one morning six inches taller, thirty pounds lighter, or able to play an instrument that we’ve never picked up before. And, except in the rarest of cases, we aren’t going to wake up tomorrow completely free of…
Warding Off Relapses
I heard some interesting advice today that, if taken seriously, has the potential to completely change our lives” “Focus on what you DO have and NOT on what you don’t” At first it doesn’t sound like such a big deal. But the more you think about it, the more profound this simple directive becomes. If…
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