Tag: Celebrate Recovery®
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Celebrate Recovery Among Other Support Programs
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Feb. 8, 2022) — Since 1939 Alcoholics Anonymous has set the template for successful addiction recovery by bringing together people in the process of recovery to understand and support each other. Therapy in itself, whether medical or psychiatric or spiritual was not enough. The sufferer needed a spiritual experience and the support…
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Sharing the Good News
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Jan. 27, 2022) — The recovery support program in which I am involved is Celebrate Recovery, established 1981 and consistent world-wide. For some, recovery may be unimaginable, let alone celebrating it, but I have seen it with my own eyes and experienced it myself. I have been sharing the 12 Steps with…
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A Creature Who Makes Choices
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Jan. 24, 2022) — Not in the womb, perhaps, but at some point not long after, we begin to take actions that are not pre-programmed in our biology. This is most visible when we consciously choose to do the wrong thing. Why is it when we think of choice, we don’t think…
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Step Two: The Hope of Freedom
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Aug. 23, 2021) — Recovery folks are the only people who really know what freedom is. Because they have truly understood their slavery. What is freedom? For the secularists it is unrestricted expression of their nature – without answering to anyone but themselves. Be yourself. Do it your way. Let it all…
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Have I got a Hang-up for You!
by ProfDave, ©2021 (May 11, 2021) — “Hang-ups are negative mental attitudes that are used to cope with people or adversity.” For example, anger, control, depression, fear, un-forgiveness, or my personal favorite: escape. In this broken world, when challenges come our way, we easily fall into counterproductive defense mechanisms, patterns of behavior and feeling that…
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The Red Pen Syndrome
by ProfDave, ©2020 (Nov. 22, 2020) — “Speak softly and carry a red pen,” the English teacher used to say. “Judge not that ye be not judged” (Matthew 7:1) is the favorite verse of those who do not read their Bible. I used to resent that, but I have learned what Jesus meant under the…