Recovery is a process of decisions Podcast

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Change is indeed inevitable for life is dependent on change. From the air, we breathe to the movement of the earth we live on. Change is constant and necessary for life. From the change of night to day and sunshine to rain change is mandatory. We too can and should change, Recovery demands change. To recover we must do better. Better today than yeste...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text There is no recovery without God. God is omnipotent everywhere all the time, all-powerful. God is truth. Everything God does is truthful. God cannot lie, God has no beginning and no ending. Time bows to God. God knows our past, present, and the possibilities of our future. To God, all knees shall bend either willingly or unwillingly. With God, all th...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Life never stops throwing life at you. We must live life on life's terms. With the disease of addiction there is no cure and as such this disease never stops submitting its claim for your early death. It relentlessly strives to submit to you a steady unretreating mindset of selfish desires; Submitting to this mindset can have devastating consequ...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text My recovery my respondsibility. I must participate in my own recovery. I cannot blame anyone for my decisions. Recovery is a decision to live and not die. I can choose to recover or not recover. Every person has the right to decide to live or not. All me All the time, Know one to blame but me.  Listen as Trent defines his decision to recover and not...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Change is constant and inevitable. Everything in the universe is in a consistent state of change. The very ground we stand on is in a steady state of change as the planet we live on is in a revolving state of motion.  What we are empowered to change is measured. In fact we control very little. We don't control the beating of our heart or the inh...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text A boy does what he is told yet a man does what he has to do. With understanding and wisdom, a man makes life decisions.   Somewhere I heard a man does not cry, I know you are not a man until you learn how to cry. Being a man is taught from one man to another. Just as a lion lays down his life for his pride, so does a man find the same obligation for...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text We     do not have control over what others do or say.   However, we   do control our attitude response.  Our response is primarily linked to our attitude, how we view life our perspective is prominent in whether we respond with good or bad decisions.  There is a slogan that states love me or hate me neither will make me or break me.  If we lose cont...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Forgiveness is an I attribute. You   cannot project forgiveness on an another. If I forgive you, I am saving my own life. Forgiveness stops the negative feelings of stress caused by the actions of a perpetrator. You will always be held hostage to the actions brought about by another. The same is true for forgiveness of oneself. You will never move be...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Tomorrow can be too late for recovery.    Recovery is a decision to live and not die.  Yesterday is history and tomorrow is not promised, Recovery is for today right now. Now is all we can control. life is a reward for making a correct decision, death is the consequence for   making a wrong decision.    With the advent of fentanyl your next decision...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Recovery has   taught   me to live a GOD complicit life. A life where I    follow Gods Instructions. A life where I have given up driving the   car but rather depend on the instructions that come from God.    Patiently waiting on his purpose in my life to come to fruition.   Gone   are my off the road    driving into pits and off cliffs due to being...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text God did not save me for me to sit on my story.  My life is proof that recovery is possible.   My decision to recover was a decision to live and not die. My life is a statement of what one cannot do alone one can do with the help of others. With the power supplied by God and the instructions of truth given to me by addicts in meetings, I have attended...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Addiction is a constant battle between sanity and actions of insanity. A battle demonstrated  in the battle between  drama and conflict. Knowing what not to do has little value in dealing with the disease of addiction and it's proposition of insane actions.  Living in the unreal world one is placed in while in active addiction forces one to deal...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Mercy is to forgive someone you can punish, God is a God of mercy He could erase anyone at any time. Yet he decides to rehabilitate and recover those who sin against him.  He ordains recovery as a measure of his mercy. Each day he awakens us he exercises mercy. His mercy is immense, His mercy comes in all forms. His mercy is expressed in not only wha...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text In recovery, faith is absolutely mandatory. We serve an all-powerful creator who operates above the natural world. He exists in the supernatural. On day 1 of creation, he said let there be light yet it was on day 4 that he created the sun. Where did the light come from before the existence of the sun? Here in is proof that God does not need the natur...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text The more scientists discover about our universe the more they prove the existence of our God. The fact that scientists have proven that the universe had a common starting point called the Big Bang proves the existence of an intelligent force that initiated this Big Bang of creation. All life is cell creation and no cell can self-generate but rather m...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text There is no recovery without God. God initiates, ordains, and sustains recovery. It is our spiritual condition that invokes and sustains our recovery. Faith is the key to spiritual viability. Faith is the assured expectation of things hopeful yet unseen. Faith that an unseen God can and will save us from ourselves.  Faith is the spark plug that ignit...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Only you can fix you, a true slogan based on fact. We are created as free moral agents, possessing the unique ability to decide for ourselves right and wrong. This fact aligns human beings with free thinking and a moral capacity. Even if we never read the bible we would know right from wrong, We possess an inner connection with God, we call it spirit...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Step 2 of the AA twelve-step states 'Came to believe a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.' This introduction to the concept of GOD beautifully installs a fact that simply identifies that we cannot and did not save ourselves, therefore a power greater than ourselves can and did save us from ourselves. This belief is factu...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Relapse is a deterioration after a period of improvement. When one refuses to share past bad decisions and the consequences reaped, this places a reservation for relapse on that activity. When you don't want anyone to know what you used to do because you might do it again, you make a reservation for relapse on that activity.  Relapse need not be...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Scars are marks left as the result of a healed injury. Scars are proof of the incidence of recovery. To have a scar you must have first been injured. Scars are proof of a hill climbed a valley crossed an incident survived, Recovery is a part of man's unique and remarkable design by an all-knowing and loving God. A God that knows what we know not...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Admitting mistakes creates the neuro-pathways for learning as a part of our brain learning mechanism. We must admit we don't know something or admit an error or mistake to invoke the learning process. We learn primarily through trial and error. We learn through our own mistakes or the mistakes shared by others. Our actual learning tracks are cre...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Reconstruction is to construct again. To rebuild, reaquire. After the destruction of our old way of living, we get blessed with reconstruction or constructing a new life. A life built on truth. The truth that comes from GOD, Gone are the dark depressing, and dingy life filled with fear, anger, lying, and cheating. Built on a foundation of honesty and...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Prayer is an act of supplication. It is a petition for a speaking engagement with the GOD of our understanding. Prayer is the recognition of a supreme being that sustains our lives. There is no recovery without GOD. Prayer is the act of submission that details faith that there is a GOD who can and will save us from us. Prayer denotes faith and belief...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Healing is defined as making one sound or whole again. The key word is again. Denoting a prior existence, Being at some point whole and sound. All faults need to be healed. Man is prone to make mistakes or faults.  With this is the God-created ability to heal and recover. The human body replaces every cell every 100 days. By design, the man was made...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Addiction is  a disease of self-deception. There is no cure for this disease. However, treatment is possible. The treatment for this disease is truth.  Truth repels the lie. GOD is truth everything GOD does is truthful. Truth is a requirement for anyone choosing to serve GOD. Truth is light. Once one plugs into the power greater than himself,  We rec...