Recovery is a process of decisions Podcast

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text  Intimacy is the act of sharing one's hidden truth. Intimacy requires honesty. In active addiction lying is a way of life.  Truth is mandatory in recovery. Only with the advent of honesty is intimacy possible. Removing shame and guilt with the truth of disclosure makes the existence of intimacy an option. The reward of having an intimate relatio...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text A lie is the presentation of an untruth for the purpose of gaining an advantage over a person by deception. A lie is contrary to GOD, because  GOD is truth.  The cure for the lie is truth. A lie represents darkness, as it leads  away from GOD  who represents light. GOD cannot lie, everything GOD does is truthful. To lie is to walk opposite  GODS purp...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Truth is the remedy for the lie. Addiction is self-deception.  Addiction occurs because we lie to ourselves. Truth is the treatment for the disease of Addiction or self-deception. It is at all 12-step meetings the world over where one addict's truth shared saves lives. It is this truth-telling that promotes hope. It is where we learn that what i...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is anti-God's will and an execution of man's will over God's purpose. Suicide is man's taking the steering wheel of life and driving into the premature gravel pit of termination. Suicide can be immediate or accomplished with sustained use of drugs and alcohol. Suicide...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text God rewards whom he wants to reward.   Making better decisions yields more rewards and fewer consequences. Thus inherently recovery yields more rewards as we make better decisions and decide to live better. We begin to receive the rewards that come from hard work and honest living. Those in our life begin to trust us and the reward for doing a good j...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Forgiveness is the wiping of the slate clean. Not looking for compensation for past aggressions. In our recovery we must learn to forgive ourselves. To remove guilt and shame we must practice self-forgiveness. We must love ourselves, to do that we must forgive ourselves. Forgiving ourselves of all the bad past decisions we were guilty of while in act...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Serenity is acquired. Serenity is a state of peacefulness and lack of worry. Serenity is achieved when you know everything is already alright. Serenity is attained through faith in the God of your understanding. Serenity exists when you give everything up to GOD  and allow his plan to incorporate your daily affairs. Following his will not yours invok...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Gratitude is an action word. Gratitude is a readiness to show appreciation. Gratitude requires aforethought. The act of loving someone other than ourselves, starts our being grateful process. In order to love someone other than ourselves we must first love ourselves. We must love and acknowledge all we have accomplished and surmounted. With this come...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text In life, we draw from our successes. Success is the accomplishment of good or bad decisions.  Success is derived from the journey, not from the destination. Thus we gain acceptance from the success of our bad decisions and enjoin the consequences as a part of our lives.      In active addiction, this acceptance becomes comfortable until the pain of s...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text There is a need to surrender in the process of recovery. To surrender requires humility and acknowledgment that only God can save your life. An understanding that you do not have the answer. To surrender requires an understanding that only a power greater than ourselves can and will save us from ourselves. When we admit that our best thinking has lef...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Words were invoked at creation God said let there be light and then there was light. Words spoken have power. The power to change, the power to invoke, the power to inspire.    Words can create momentous events. Words travel on airwaves. Air waves are controlled by God, thus God maintains control over what is heard.   The effect words have on each in...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text We cannot diminish the rewards that come from the God of our understanding. The reward of a better life comes from making better decisions. More rewards and less consequences is the result of living a hopeful happy life in recovery. The light we radiate is often met with envy and nay-sayers. We must set boundaries against those who would attempt to d...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text There is much in life I don't know.  I realize  I can't do what I do not know how to do.  Before recovery, I did not know how to live without a drink or a drug. I had to learn how to live life sober.  Life is a daily opportunity to learn what to and what not to do. For me, Life is a learning opportunity, a new daily opportunity to just do b...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Man was created as a free moral agent. We are not robots programmed to never make mistakes but rather we have the innate ability to decide wrongly. With this ability to make mistakes, we also possess the creative right to learn from our mistakes and then strive to do better. The ability to recover is a product of God's creative genius. It is rec...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text We must never blame our problems on someone else because then they hold the power to solve our problems. The power to solve our problems is within us, with the direction of the GOD of our understanding. The simple fact is only you can fix you. With the help of GOD, all things are possible and achievable. Proof that only  GOD can accomplish together w...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Man and woman are created beings. Two pieces perfect fully fitted for each other like two pieces of a puzzle. Together they are perfect manifestations of Gods creative presentation.  Demonstrating a completion of purpose one in which God proclaimed to the entire universe that the creation of man and his balanced complementary created entity woman wer...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Willing in recovery means being in the mood of recovery. Ready to precipitate the methods of recovery.   Willing and eager to participate in the process of recovery.  Prepared to actively initiate change. Happy and enthusiastic in meeting the challenges on the road to recovery. Willing means having faith that God can and will assist and guide you thr...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Time is centrical and always forthcoming. Time is a gift from God. God is not bound by time, he has no beginning or ending. God is timeless. Even time submits to the will of God,  God introduced time into his creation of the world, Every element was created in it's own period of time . Land, water, atmosphere, creatures then man and women all in...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Within this life of hills and valleys, we all must subcomb to the universal mandate of choices, decisions, consequences, and rewards. This is often overlooked when dealing with the guilt and shame we experience from the bad actions of someone we love. Most often we assume responsibility as if we could stand in their shoes and make the decisions for t...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Pain is migratory and transudatory. It can move from person to person. One person's pain can be felt by others who have similar life experiences. Pain causes change and is as such necessary for recovery to initiate and be sustained. Pain in memories refutes triggers as it reminds us of bad past decisions. Pain is a feeling. All feelings are inst...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Analyzing our needs and wants in recovery is essential as overcompensating our wants and underappreciating what we actually need can rapidly lead to unwanted pressure from financial consequences as a result of poor decision-making with regard to measuring our needs versus our wants. Financial calamity is a chief component of many relapse scenarios. ...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Addiction involves the lie one tells oneself, to further an agenda where the end result is premature death.  Addiction is based on lies.  Fact is no lie can last forever, it must be supported by additional lies. Thus addiction and its lies rise to the level where its needs supersede bathing, food, and self-esteem.  This self-deception changes the int...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Life is circular. There is nothing new under the sun. With this, we learn what to and what not to do.  What has been done will be done again, therefore we should plan for what is inevitable. Proper planning makes recovery sustainable. Turning temptations and triggers into testimony. Thus with a mandate to just do better daily, we should plan accordin...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Recovery is one decision after another. With each right decision comes the reward of more decisions...The better decision gets better outcomes. More rewards less consequences.   The more rewards lead to getting your life back. Jobs, family, wealth. The manifestations of life. God rewards whom he chooses. The rewards for being a truth seeker merit mor...

We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a text Humans are error-prone. Man is not perfect. Mistakes are unavoidable and inevitable. Mistakes however can be bridges to do better. Mistakes create new pathways within our brains when we imagine ways to avoid remaking the mistake or ways to mitigate the harm caused by such mistakes. Recovery is a process to make the next right decision. God showed his...