by Scott Weeman | Aug 29, 2017 | Alcohol & Drug Addiction, The Twelve Steps
I have had a long love/hate relationship with school. It has been both a rose and a thorn in my life, getting much more complicated when my addiction to alcohol, drugs, and other attachments ran rampant upon starting my freshman year of college. Growing up, I...
by Scott Weeman | Aug 5, 2017 | Prayer & Scripture Reflections, The Twelve Steps
This Sunday, the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. This experience, as witnessed by Peter, James, and John, took place on a mountain top. High elevation often suggests that a spiritual experience is to take place. In this week’s...
by Scott Weeman | Aug 3, 2017 | Prayer & Scripture Reflections, Spiritual Tools
I’m a pretty sensitive guy. When I get choked up at weddings or during special moments, it comes to no surprise to my wife, friends, or family members there to witness it. However, I have lately found myself getting even more emotional than usual. Just the other day,...
by Scott Weeman | Jul 30, 2017 | Alcohol & Drug Addiction, Prayer & Scripture Reflections, The Twelve Steps
“Half-measures avail us nothing,” are words spoken in Twelve-Step recovery that are meant to reveal the importance of keeping our recovery efforts on the front of our minds and actions. This day-at-a-time commitment to discovering a new way of life and maintaining it...
by Scott Weeman | Jul 21, 2017 | Alcohol & Drug Addiction, Prayer & Scripture Reflections, Spiritual Tools
As we get further into our recovery journey, we find that prayer is at the heart of what helps get us sober and an essential element of keeping us in recovery. Our first admission of a problem may have been a prayerful, crying out to what seemed to be only ourselves....
