Not only is it important to change your old habits, whether that be in your environment or behavior, it is also beneficial to change your outlook on life. This is where religion comes in.
Overcoming Addiction With Religion
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The Twelve Steps
Addiction Recovery: Where Do You Begin?
If you are wrestling with the idea that you need help overcoming your addiction—either from drugs, alcoholism, pornography, gambling, an eating disorder, or other psychological dependency—it is likely that this is not a new idea to you. I had enough evidence to be...
Overcoming the Fear of Public Perception
A few weeks ago I was speaking with the principal of a local high school about rising alcohol and drug issues that his school is experiencing. Upon my second visit with this young man, he took a moment to share with me that his half-brother, at only thirty years old,...
Digging Out of the Spiritual Trough
I wrote the outline for this post about two weeks ago following a vacation, in a moment when I felt myself diving into a spiritual “trough”, or low point in one’s spiritual life where God’s presence seems to withdraw. I plotted out the following points, mostly...
You Can’t Do It Alone
“Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path.”[1] I hear these words read aloud nearly every day, to the point that it sometimes hums through my ears unnoticed like the sound of the wind. When I first got sober and was realizing how...
The Restorative Power of Community
For the longest time I hid from everything. I would hide myself from the reality that my life was unmanageable and that drugs and alcohol had taken everything meaningful away from me. I hid from the outside world, from my responsibilities, and from human interaction....
Friendship and the Importance of Personal Relationship
A man named Brock introduced me to the Good News of Jesus Christ. He did not give me a book about Jesus and tell me to read it. He did not give me a DVD series to watch and tell me to press play. He did not give me a CD with Christian talks and ask me to report back...
Five Lessons From Saint Monica to Help You Love a Suffering Addict/Alcoholic
Most, if not all, people deal with the difficulty of loving someone when it seems like the most difficult thing to possibly do. Loving a suffering addict—whether they struggle with alcohol, drugs, lust, gambling, financial infidelity, eating, etc... is costly. It...