by Chris | May 16, 2019 | Alcohol & Drug Addiction, Pornography & Sexual Addiction, Spiritual Tools, The Sacraments, The Twelve Steps
Jay Stringer, author of Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing, suggests that before we will ever find our way clear of unwanted sexual behavior, we must first look at what our behaviors reveal about us. While I continue to struggle with the idea...
by Chris | May 9, 2019 | Alcohol & Drug Addiction, Help from the Saints, Prayer & Scripture Reflections, The Twelve Steps
I had just received my 16-year medallion and black key tag from my NA (Narcotics Anonymous) family, when a brother priest shared that he was reading Sister Ignatia: Angel of Alcoholics Anonymous by Mary Darrah. The medallion and key tag are given to members to...
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 | 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 | Jun 18, 2017 | Alcohol & Drug Addiction, Prayer & Scripture Reflections, Spiritual Tools, The Sacraments
The Twelve Steps of recovery and the sacraments of the Catholic Church work in a very similar way. While some of the steps and each of the sacraments have great ritual and reverence around them regarding initiation, each are to be continually practiced. Finding a...
