Faith Over Addiction | Biblical Idenity and Boundaries for Loving Someone with Addiction

Benefits to Working Through your Resentments 2 of 3 In the second podcast episode on resentments, we dive into how resentments can become part of how you define yourself.  There are great benefits to working through a resentment toward a person, situation, or institution. Getting unstuck from a feeling or situation Freeing yourself to move forward Stoping re-injuring of yourself with a past hurt F...

This minisode Jerry talks about being new to sobriety and facing people and challenges that cause him to question his and others motives. Here are a few highlights from this minisode with Jerry. During recovery from addiction, difficult things still happen.  You may continue to cause others and yourself pain.  Other's responses to your new sobriety and the changes you are making may also be diffic...

Turkey Day is upon us.  No one wants to struggle with Family Holidays.  After recovery from addictions, the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays may trigger unwanted feels and emotions. Here are our Top Ten Tips for staying Emotionally Sober during the Holidays.   Designed to help you accept the things that you can't change and the courage to stay sober and addiction free during high-stress times....

Comfortably Unhappy I hate this concept.  It is the golden cage of work, home and play.  The sound for comfortably unhappy is “meh” ( expressing a lack of interest or enthusiasm). Just saying it makes me cringe--MEH.  It is that chocolate chip cookie that is not good but not bad it is just a cookie.   This is why I don’t eat cheesecake. It is sweet and creamy, but for my taste, it is just meh at t...

Getting sober often leaves us and our families with a long list of hurt feelings.  We can resent people, organizations and ourselves. Hanging our hats on resentments,   holding them close and nurturing them only serves to feed them.   Just like expectations, resentments tend to repopulate given the chance.   They grow and grow and grow bigger like a balloon. The long slim needle of truth about a r...

Hey, this is Jerry with the first short workin´ it minisode.  Just my opinion on who you can and cannot control in the addiction recovery process. Maybe you have been sober a while or maybe you are new to sobriety.  Tanya and I want to do these short mindset focused minisodes between the longer Sober on Purpose episodes to give you a quick minute or two of support. Often one thing said by one pers...

The relief of you or the loved one getting sober lifts a momentous wait off the family.  Now everything is going to be OK. He, she or they will stop doing whatever they were doing that caused the family so much harm. For years, the families desperate mantra for sobriety may have gone something like this: IF he would just … stop using drugs, pron, spending money, working 90 hours. IF she would just...

If you intend to lose weight, get up earlier, travel or stop or start something in your life, this quick episode is for you! Good intentions are grand ideas without a plan.  How do you change those ideas into actions?  Practice! This episode is me, Tanya, with few life-changing thoughts about being Sober on Purpose.  There is no magic pill!  Finding your way takes Purpose and Practice. Free Gfit :...