In my own recovery, I have found many helpful tools in St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises. I could almost call the Exercises a recovery program for addiction and codependency. Within these exercises, St. Ignatius offers rules for the “discernment of...
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Shifting Our Understanding from Surrendering to Yielding to God’s Will (Part 2)
Jan 31, 2024 | Addiction, Getting Sober, God | 0 Comments
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...
Shifting Our Understanding from Surrendering to Yielding to God’s Will (Part 1)
Jan 17, 2024 | Addiction, Getting Sober, God | 0 Comments
Every 12-step novice is familiar with the term “surrender” and its significance for finding recovery. However, as often as the word is used in recovery groups, the word itself does not appear in any of the Twelve Steps. I’ve spent decades in recovery and attended...
Has Your Life Become Unmanageable?
Jun 21, 2023 | Addiction, Alcohol & Drug Addiction, Getting Sober | 0 Comments
What does the term “unmanageable” even mean? I asked Google Bard AI for a definition, and here is what it returned: “Unmanageable means difficult or impossible to control or manage. It can be used to describe a person, an animal, a situation, or an object.” Synonyms...
The Reason I’m Both Catholic and in Recovery
May 10, 2023 | Addiction, Getting Sober, Personal Testimonies, Personal Testimony | 0 Comments
The response of Pilate to our Lord betrays the skeptical view that there is no discernable, universal truth that can be discerned. Or to put it succinctly: “It is all relative.” Your truth is your truth and mine is mine and never the twain shall meet. I was blessed...
Overcoming Alcoholism and Unhealthy Eating through the “Spiritual Toolkit” of the Twelve Steps
Mar 29, 2023 | Addiction, Alcohol & Drug Addiction, Compulsive Eating Behaviors, General, Getting Sober, Personal Testimonies, Personal Testimony, Spiritual Tools, The Twelve Steps | 0 Comments
I am a miracle. I am a recovering alcoholic and anorexic. It is my hope that by sharing my experience of addiction and recovery, I can bring awareness to others that there is a solution, and that through it they may experience a “spiritual awakening.” A spiritual...
All Things Unholy: From Sexual Addiction to Merciful Liberation
Nov 16, 2022 | 12-Step Meetings, Addiction, Codependence, Getting Sober, Loved One of an Addict, Personal Testimonies, Personal Testimony, Pornography & Sexual Addiction, Sex/Pornography | 0 Comments
I remember the moment I came to terms with my addiction: the moment I stepped out of denial and into God’s healing light. I had no idea what would happen. I was scared and overwhelmed with guilt and shame. I had gone almost twenty years without openly acknowledging...
Three “Catholic” Myths About Self-care (and How to Debunk Them)
Nov 1, 2022 | Addiction, Compulsive Eating Behaviors, Other Addictions | 0 Comments
Everybody in any kind of recovery knows how cunning and patient those old thought patterns are, just waiting to sneak back up on us in the middle of a stressful day. So it really wasn’t any surprise to me when, on one of those recent stressful days, I was passing by...
4 Ways Addiction Creates Insanity in Our Lives
Aug 10, 2022 | Addiction, General, Getting Sober | 0 Comments
Addiction and unhealthy attachments can be powerful drivers in our lives—drivers that put us on a course of destruction, pain, and insanity. Below are four ways that addiction and unhealthy attachments create insanity in our lives. A Repetitive Cycle of Suffering...
Overcoming Opioid Addiction with the Help of Catholic in Recovery
Jun 22, 2022 | Addiction, Alcohol & Drug Addiction, Drugs, Personal Testimonies, Personal Testimony | 0 Comments
When I was younger, I thought I would never be the type of person that was going to have a history of opioid addiction. I was the “good girl.” I was homeschooled. I was one of seven kids who had Christian parents (my Dad was a pastor!). Drugs were never even on my...