by Chris | Mar 6, 2024 | Fifth Step, Fourth Step, Prayer & Scripture Reflections, Reconciliation, Sacraments, Scripture Reflection, Spiritual Tools, The Sacraments, The Twelve Steps
The first formal Step Four a recovering person makes can be likened to the preparation for a “general Confession” made by a Catholic who has returned to the Church after being away or been received into the Church for the first time. This in-depth and thorough...
by Chris | Mar 2, 2024 | Compulsive Eating Behaviors, Spiritual Tools
I just finished cleaning out our bathroom drains. There’s a Lenten lesson in here, I promise. When my daughters were little, I kept their hair shoulder-length. Anything longer was way too difficult to brush without all of us ending in tears. As soon as they were old...
by Chris | Feb 28, 2024 | Loved One of an Addict, Pornography & Sexual Addiction, Sex/Pornography
As I entered my first meeting for family and friends of sex addicts, I looked around the room and studied the faces there, wondering if they would understand. After all, I had a secret in addition to how sex addiction was affecting my marriage, but it was such a dark...
by Chris | Feb 21, 2024 | General
My spouse’s alcoholism was crushing me both emotionally and physically. Our relationship was no longer a real marriage even though we were living together in the same house. My two children were gone and leading full lives far away from our home. For forty years, my...
by Chris | Jan 31, 2024 | Addiction, Getting Sober, God
In part one of this series, Mark L. writes about how the surrender he thought he needed to embrace to rejoin the Father might be more aptly described as yielding to the wooing of a lover who is always quietly beckoning him. Yielding to God’s will to move from...
