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Send us Fan Mail The addiction series continues by exploring how we can make spiritual progress through the cross of addiction - the addiction of someone we love. Five beliefs show progress, but how do we get there?  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail The addiction series continues. How do we have healthy conversations with an addict and others who are affected by him or her? How do we identify unhealthy patterns and change them so that our conversations bring us more peace?   ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail The addiction series continues with a discussion about when we come to believe that there will not be recovery. Even so, we surrender all to God and have peace at the cross.  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail The addiction series continues with a discussion of the time when the addict is in sustained recovery. They have a God-centered life that is reflected in personal healing, emotional maturity, and spiritual peace. What is our role now that the addict we love is doing so well?  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail Continuing the series on addiction, this episode explores early recovery, when the addict is clean and sober but still struggling with the challenges that led to the addiction. What can you do to nurture your own healing while the addict is struggling to maintain sobriety? It's a very challenging time!  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen...

Send us Fan Mail Addiction Series: This episode explores the complexities we face when addiction ends in death. How do we grieve? How do we fight the spiritual battle? How can we open our hearts to the healing grace of God?  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail In this series on addiction, we explore the struggles and opportunities that come when an addict we love is in jail or court-ordered rehab.   ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail The Addiction Series Episode 6. What happens when we are estranged from the addict? How can we more willingly surrender the addict to God? Who can help us through this suffering?  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail This is part of a series on addiction. Stagnation is a time in the addiction relationship when nothing is happening. It's dark, smelly, and lifeless. How can this dead time bear spiritual fruit? There are three ways to make that happen.  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail This episode continues the series on addiction, exploring the hard decisions we must make in our relationship with the addict. How do we make a decision we can live with?  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail Continuing the series on addiction, this episode explores the challenges when we are on the rehab roller coaster with the addict we love. They enter rehab, are clean for a while, then relapse. This is repeated over and over. How do we live and love and hope through this season of ups and downs?  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Au...

Send us Fan Mail Addiction: What do we do when we find out there is a problem? How can I have spiritual peace in the midst of the storm? This episode explores how we can respond when we find out that someone we love has an addiction.  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail This is the beginning of a series on addiction - for those who love an addict. How do we navigate the turbulence of addiction? How do we fight the spiritual battle when the one we love is addicted? Learn about the nine seasons we can experience when in a relationship with an addict. Future episodes will explore each season in depth. ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchania...

Send us Fan Mail Is your life disordered? What does that mean? How can we identify the disorders that keep us from God? How can we bring God's perfect order into our lives?  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail This final episode on healing offers 5 steps for creating a plan for your healing journey. You can download a Healing Plan Worksheet at my website:  https://colleenorchanian.com/resources ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail [Continuing the healing series] This episode presents five healing resources: Humility, Charity, Staying in the Present, Retreats, and Body Health. All of these can foster continued healing in mind, body, and spirit.  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail How can prayer, fasting, and almsgiving help me have a fruitful Lent? This episode presents many ways to live those Lenten disciplines.  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail Continuing the series on healing, this episode explores 3 more healing resources: forgiveness, repentance, and book discussion groups.  Three books mentioned:  Be Healed by Dr. Bob Schuttes Abide by Heather Khym Loved As I Am by Sister Miriam Heidland Forgiveness Prayer:  https://prayersroom.com/fr-robert-de-grandis-ssj-forgiveness-prayer/ ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenO...

Send us Fan Mail What resources are available for the healing journey? In this episode, you'll hear about six powerful resources: prayers of petition, communion with God, professional help, prayers of renunciation, spiritual warfare, and community.  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail Healing Part 3: What obstacles block the healing we desire? How can we remove those obstacles and be open to the healing touch of Jesus?  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail We need healing in body, mind, and soul. Each affects the other. When we identify all of our healing needs, we are open to complete healing from the Divine Physician.  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail The first in a series on healing, this episode summarizes healing. What is it? Why do we need it? What are the signs that we need healing?  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever had a spiritual word of the year? Why not choose a word for Advent? Here are some possibilities and some ideas for living the word during this season of anticipation.  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail How open are you to the gifts God has for you? Do you try to rush God? This episode is about being receptive and overcoming the habits of grasping and rejecting.  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to surrender? There are many false ways to surrender in faith, but what is the proper way?  ColleenOrchanian@gmail.com  www. ColleenOrchanian.com  Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author