Webinars

Addiction, compulsions, and unhealthy attachments often leave consequences that extend beyond our emotional, spiritual, and relational lives. For many individuals and families, the recovery journey also includes facing financial stress, debt, neglected responsibilities, secrecy, damaged trust, or unhealthy patterns with money.

Catholic in Recovery invites you to Recovering Financial Peace: Catholic Wisdom for Money, Healing, and Stability, a special webinar offered in partnership with Compass Catholic. This panel discussion will explore how recovering financial health can become an important part of healing, accountability, and renewed freedom in recovery.

The panel, featuring members of both the CIR and Compass Catholic communities, will offer encouragement, guidance, best practices, and practical tools for individuals and families seeking to restore or maintain healthy personal finance practices.

Drawing from Catholic principles of stewardship, recovery wisdom, and lived experience, this conversation will address the ways financial difficulties can emerge through addiction, compulsion, or unhealthy attachments—and how honesty, humility, responsibility, and trust in God can help us begin again.

Participants will be invited to consider how financial healing may involve repairing past harm, creating healthier habits, rebuilding trust within families, and learning to approach money with greater clarity, peace, and purpose. Whether you are facing the financial consequences of addiction, supporting a loved one through recovery, or maturing in your own recovery and seeking sound tools for the future, this webinar offers practical support and hope for the journey ahead.

The journey of recovery often carries wounds that resist easy words—grief that lingers beneath the surface, shame that is difficult to name, and spiritual longing that doesn't always find expression in ordinary conversation. For many individuals walking the path of healing, creative expression offers a different kind of language: one that can reach what words alone cannot.

Catholic in Recovery invites you to Creative Expression as Spiritual Healing, a special webinar featuring Joy M. and Seokhoon Jun, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying). This conversation will explore how art, creativity, and imaginative expression can become powerful instruments of healing, self-discovery, and deepened faith within the recovery journey.

Drawing from therapeutic insight and Catholic spirituality, Joy and Seokhoon will reflect on the ways that making art—whether painting, writing, music, movement, or any other creative form—can open us to the spiritual dimensions of recovery. This is not about artistic skill or performance. It is about learning to listen to what is stirring within us, and offering it back to God.

Together, they will explore how creativity can help us process guilt, shame, and the longing for redemption within a Catholic framework—naming what feels too heavy to carry and discovering, through the act of making, that we are held. Participants will also be invited to consider how creative practice can become a form of prayer or meditation: a quiet, sacred space in which God meets us in our unfinished places.

Whether you are new to recovery or maturing in it, whether you consider yourself creative or have never thought of yourself that way, this webinar offers an open and hope-filled invitation to encounter healing through a dimension of your humanity you may not yet have explored.

For centuries, Catholics have turned to the Blessed Virgin Mary as a source of comfort, guidance, and spiritual strength in times of struggle. For those seeking recovery from addiction, compulsions, and unhealthy attachments, devotion to Our Lady can become a powerful source of hope and perseverance along the journey of healing.

Catholic in Recovery invites you to Mary, Mother of Recovery: Finding Strength Through Marian Devotion, a webinar exploring the role of Marian devotion in the recovery journey. Presenters Keaton Douglas, Founder and Executive Director of iTHIRST, and Brother Pius Gagne, Franciscan Friar of the Renewal, will reflect on how turning to Mary can deepen our trust in God’s mercy and strengthen our commitment to a life of recovery.

Drawing from Catholic tradition, spiritual reflection, and lived experience in addiction recovery ministry, this conversation will explore how Marian devotion can help cultivate humility, surrender, and reliance on God’s grace—principles that lie at the heart of both the Gospel and the Twelve Steps.

Participants will be invited to consider how practices such as the Rosary, Marian consecration, and entrusting one’s struggles to Our Lady can provide encouragement and spiritual support in recovery. Through Mary’s maternal care and intercession, we are reminded that we are never alone in our suffering and that God’s healing mercy remains available to all who seek it.

Whether you are new to Marian devotion or have long found strength in Our Lady’s presence, this webinar offers insight, encouragement, and hope for walking the path of recovery under the loving care of our Blessed Mother.

Many adults carry wounds from childhood that quietly shape how they see themselves, relate to others, and experience their relationship with God. For those who grew up in homes marked by addiction, emotional neglect, or other forms of dysfunction, these patterns can linger long into adulthood, affecting trust, identity, and the ability to experience peace and healthy relationships.

Catholic in Recovery invites you to The Road to Healing: Recovery & Renewal for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Homes, a webinar with Brya Hanan, licensed marriage and family therapist and author of Befriending Your Inner Child: A Catholic Approach to Healing and Wholeness. Drawing from her clinical expertise and Catholic understanding of the human person, Brya will explore the path of healing available to adult children who are seeking freedom from the lasting effects of childhood wounds.

This conversation will examine common experiences among adult children of dysfunctional homes, including the impact of trauma, difficulty with boundaries, struggles with self-worth, and the longing for deeper emotional and spiritual integration. Participants will be introduced to insights from Brya’s work on inner healing, along with practical ways to begin addressing these patterns with compassion and support.

Whether you personally identify as an adult child of a dysfunctional home, are supporting someone on this journey, or simply desire deeper healing and integration, this conversation offers wisdom, encouragement, and hope for the road ahead.

Many people impacted by addiction, whether personally or through the struggles of a loved one, find themselves caught in patterns of over-responsibility, people-pleasing, and emotional entanglement that leave them exhausted and spiritually depleted. These patterns, often described as codependency, can quietly shape how we relate to others, to ourselves, and even to God.

Catholic in Recovery invites you to Breaking the Chains of Codependency, a webinar exploring this dynamic through the lens of 12-step recovery and Catholic spirituality. Led by CIR community members, this conversation will help participants better understand what codependency is, how to recognize it in their own lives, and how recovery offers a path toward greater freedom and healthier relationships.

We’ll reflect on questions many people carry: Why do I feel responsible for others’ choices or emotions? Why is it difficult to set healthy boundaries? How can I find peace while loving someone who struggles? Drawing from recovery wisdom and the Catholic understanding of our identity as beloved children of God, this webinar offers practical insight and spiritual encouragement for those seeking freedom from these patterns.

Whether you recognize codependency in your own life or simply desire more balanced and life-giving relationships, this webinar offers hope and a path toward greater emotional and spiritual freedom.

For many of us, screens have become constant companions—offering connection, distraction, comfort, and escape. But what begins as convenience can slowly turn into compulsion, leaving us feeling fragmented, isolated, and spiritually distracted. During Lent, the Church invites us to examine the attachments that keep us from deeper freedom and communion with God and others.

Catholic in Recovery invites you to Freedom from the Screen: Overcoming Internet & Media Addiction, a hope-filled webinar that explores how compulsive use of technology, media, and screens can quietly take root and how recovery offers a path toward freedom. This conversation will offer encouragement and practical insight for anyone who senses that their relationship with screens and media may be interfering with prayer, relationships, work, or interior peace.

Grounded in 12-step wisdom and Catholic spirituality, this webinar will help participants recognize the spiritual and emotional dynamics behind compulsive screen use. Together, we’ll reflect on how attachments to technology can shape our habits, attention, and availability while exploring how intentional recovery practices can help restore us to wholeness.

Especially during Lent, this webinar invites participants to consider the opportunity before us: to loosen our grip on screens so that we can be more fully available—to our loved ones, to the Lord, and to authentic communion with both. Whether you are personally struggling with internet or media addiction, supporting someone who is, or simply desiring greater freedom and intentionality, this webinar offers clarity, hope, and a way forward.

When addiction impacts one person, it affects the entire family. Many family members find themselves carrying fear, confusion, resentment, or shame—often while trying desperately to help someone they love. Catholic in Recovery invites you to a hope-filled and compassionate webinar, Helping Families Recover from Addiction, featuring author and Catholic speaker Jean Heaton.

Drawing from her own testimony, Jean will explore how family members can begin their own journey of recovery, even when a loved one continues to struggle. This webinar emphasizes the life-giving truth that while we cannot control or change another person, the interior work we do within ourselves has the power to transform relationships and foster an environment where healing can take root.

By integrating Catholic faith practices with time-tested recovery principles, Jean will help participants understand how personal healing allows us to relate to others from a place of love rather than fear or shame. Whether you are a parent, spouse, sibling, or friend of someone affected by addiction, this conversation offers reassurance, clarity, and a path forward rooted in faith, humility, and hope.

Lent is a season of reflection, perseverance, and renewed trust in God’s mercy—an invitation that resonates deeply with the journey of recovery. Catholic in Recovery invites you to a special Lenten webinar exploring the lives of the saints and their powerful witness to hope, endurance, and transformation in the midst of suffering.

Led by Brad Farmer, CIR community member and Catholic speaker, this follow-up webinar builds upon last year’s well-loved conversation on the saints, offering greater depth on how we can foster meaningful relationships with those who now intercede for us in heaven. Drawing from theology and lived faith, Brad will reflect on how the saints—especially those connected to themes of addiction, struggle, and healing—offer companionship and encouragement to those seeking recovery.

Participants will be invited to see the saints not as distant figures, but as trusted companions who understand human weakness and God’s redeeming grace. This conversation encourages us to seek heavenly accompaniment, allowing the witness and intercession of the saints to strengthen us as we persevere through Lent and beyond.

Whether you joined us last year or are new to this topic, this webinar offers renewed hope and practical guidance for walking the recovery journey supported by a great cloud of witnesses.

Priests and clergy are often called to accompany others through suffering and struggle, yet many quietly carry their own wounds. In partnership with Guest House, Catholic in Recovery invites you to a timely webinar focused on recovery, renewal, and compassionate support for priests and clergy impacted by addiction.

This conversation will explore the unique challenges faced by priests, clergy, and Church leaders, along with key principles that support healing and recovery. Drawing from decades of experience in addiction treatment, clinical practice, theology, and pastoral ministry, Jeff Henrich, president and CEO of Guest House, and Fr. Mark Stelzer, Education Director of Guest House, will offer their unique experience, strength, and hope—grounded in both professional expertise and lived understanding of recovery.

Open to all who seek greater understanding, this webinar invites participants to reflect on the reality that addiction does not discriminate—and that even the most faithful and dedicated priests can find themselves in need of healing and support. Lay leaders, parish staff, family members, and all who walk alongside clergy will gain valuable insight into our shared human vulnerability and the importance of compassion, accompaniment, and hope-filled pathways to recovery.

Attendees will leave with a deeper appreciation for how the Church can move beyond stigma and silence toward understanding and support—for the good of priests, clergy, and the communities they serve.

Social events, such as holidays, parties, family gatherings, parish celebrations, or work functions, can be wonderful opportunities for connection. But they can also bring stress, pressure, and unexpected triggers, especially if you’re navigating recovery. Join us for a hope-filled webinar from Catholic in Recovery to help you enter these events with a plan rooted in the Twelve Steps and the sacraments. Together, we’ll explore spiritual and practical tools to help you stay connected to God, anchored in serenity, and grounded in your recovery.

This session is for those recovering from substances, relationships, behaviors, stress, and long-standing family patterns, as well as friends and family members supporting a loved one.

Join CIR founder Scott Weeman in conversation with Dr. Gerry Crete, Catholic psychotherapist and author of Litanies of the Heart, for an insightful discussion on how the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model can illuminate and deepen the journey of recovery through a Catholic lens.

Dr. Crete will share how IFS helps us understand the “parts” of ourselves wounded by trauma, addiction, and anxiety—and how inviting God’s grace into these inner spaces leads to authentic healing and integration. Together, we’ll explore how addiction impacts the inner life and family system, and how a faith-informed approach to therapy and recovery can restore unity and peace within the heart.

Are you feeling called to bring Catholic in Recovery to your parish, community, or online space? Join us for this inspiring and practical webinar to learn exactly how to start a Catholic in Recovery (CIR) meeting.

During this gathering, you’ll hear from a panel of CIR staff and volunteers who have launched meetings in their own communities. Together, we’ll walk through the process of beginning both in-person and virtual meetings, discuss what’s expected of a meeting advocate, and share best practices for sustaining a group over time.

Service is a cornerstone of recovery—and a profound way to grow in freedom, humility, and joy. In this inspiring Catholic in Recovery webinar, we’ll explore the many ways service transforms both the giver and the receiver. From taking on simple service roles in meetings to launching new Catholic in Recovery groups in your community, we’ll uncover how serving others strengthens our own recovery, deepens our faith, and fulfills Christ’s call to love one another.

Together, we’ll reflect on the spiritual, emotional, and practical benefits of service, including how to discern and use your unique gifts, talents, and charisms in meaningful ways. Rooted in Catholic teaching and the wisdom of the Twelve Steps, this conversation will offer concrete ways to step out in faith, answer God’s call to serve, and help bring healing to others in recovery.

Recovery is just the beginning. Once we’ve broken free from the grip of addiction, compulsion, or unhealthy attachments, we are invited to discover the fullness of life that God desires for us—body, mind, and soul. In this special Catholic in Recovery webinar, we welcome Jackie Mulligan and Dr. Bridget Vander Woude of Reform Wellness to explore how true wellness, rooted in Catholic teaching and grounded in the pillars of Reform, can lead to lasting transformation.

Together, Jackie and Dr. Bridget will share how areas like sleep, play, nutrition, functional movement, and personal growth can support deeper healing and flourishing in recovery. Whether you’re early in your journey or years into recovery, this webinar will provide you with spiritual encouragement, practical insights, and renewed vision for what wholeness in Christ can look like.

Addiction impacts the whole family—and healing must, too. Join Catholic in Recovery for a powerful and hope-filled webinar designed specifically for families walking alongside a loved one battling addiction. Whether you're a parent, spouse, sibling, or friend, this event will offer practical tools and spiritual insights to help you navigate the pain, confusion, and uncertainty that so often come with loving someone in addiction.

Rooted in the wisdom of the Church and guided by principles of recovery, this webinar will feature testimonies of grace, encouragement from others on the journey, and guidance rooted in faith. Come be reminded that healing is possible, and that love—grounded in truth and grace—can lead the way forward.

Don’t miss this opportunity to find faith-filled guidance, support, and connection with others who understand what you’re going through. Register today and take a step toward hope, healing, and lasting peace—for you and your family.

Many individuals seeking recovery from addiction also navigate the complex terrain of mental health challenges—and it can be difficult to know where to turn. Catholic in Recovery invites you to a timely and hope-filled webinar, Healing the Mind & Soul: A Catholic Approach to Psychiatry & Addiction, featuring Catholic psychiatrist Dr. Michael Ferri from Nashville, TN.

This conversation will explore the deep connections between addiction, mental wellness, and our spiritual lives. With compassionate insight and clinical expertise, Dr. Ferri will help us better understand how psychiatry and Catholic spirituality can work together to promote healing and wholeness. Whether you're discerning mental health treatment, supporting a loved one, or seeking integrated healing in your own recovery, this webinar will offer clarity, encouragement, and peace.

Webinar length: 1 hour 15 minutes

LENT IS A TIME of renewal, transformation, and deep spiritual reflection—a season uniquely suited to strengthening your recovery journey. Catholic in Recovery invites you to a special webinar, A Season of Freedom: How Lent Can Strengthen Your Recovery Journey, where experienced members of our community will provide encouragement, spiritual insights, and practical guidance for making the most of this sacred season.

Whether you’re in recovery from your own addiction, compulsive behaviors, or unhealthy attachments or are a family member of someone struggling, this discussion will help you integrate the Lenten disciplines of prayer, fasting, and acts of charity into your healing process. You’ll gain wisdom from those who have walked this path before, learn how to deepen your reliance on God’s grace, and find renewed hope in the freedom that Christ offers.

Don’t miss this opportunity to prepare your heart for Easter and renew your commitment to healing and freedom. Join us and experience Lent as a time of grace-filled growth in your recovery journey.

AS WE PREPARE for the Holy Year of 2025, declared by Pope Francis with the theme “Pilgrims of Hope,” we are reminded that even in our darkest moments, there is always a path forward—a path of healing, freedom, and renewal in Christ.

For those affected by addiction, this journey can feel especially challenging. But through faith, surrender, and community, healing is possible. The Jubilee of Hope webinar offers Catholics and those in recovery the spiritual guidance and practical tools needed to find light in the darkness and discover the true freedom that Christ promises.

In this powerful and hope-filled session, Keaton and Scott will share their expertise in faith-based recovery, offering insights into how the Church can become a beacon of support for those struggling with addiction. Whether you are in recovery yourself, a loved one seeking to support someone on their journey, or a community advocate for those suffering with addiction, this webinar will equip you with spiritual tools and a deeper understanding of how to walk with others as companions on their path to healing.

In a time when addiction affects so many families and communities, the Jubilee of Hope webinar invites you to join us on a pilgrimage of faith toward recovery and restoration. Let this event be the first step in finding the light of Christ, no matter the darkness you’re facing.

Register now and be a part of this life-changing event. Together, let’s walk as pilgrims of hope.