“Setting aside everything we think we know.” ~ The set aside prayer.
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3 Remarkable Changes That Occur When You’re Truly Ready to Overcome Addiction
These three remarkable changes of letting go of control, coming clean and living in genuine faith bring a new attitude and life experience, which can be summed up in this question:
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The Most Misunderstood Recovery Slogan of Them All: One Day at A Time
The phrase ‘one day at a time’ is popular in 12-step recovery programs, but its true meaning can be misunderstood. It’s meant to focus on daily spiritual growth, not just staying sober. Relying on willpower…
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How to Embrace Abstinence and Love the Recovered Life
Addicts that are pining after something that is literally destroying everything is not an option. Their very lives are at stake! Instead of escaping reality when reality is all any of us have, addicts have…
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David Bowie Knew the Truth About Addiction
In 1999, music legend David Bowie gave a mind-blowing interview to former BBC Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman. Bowie’s progressive, postmodern, pluralistic view of the world was a tour de force to Paxman’s questions, almost prophetic-like…
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How to Escape Constant Cravings In Recovery
Addiction involves craving and obsession, but chronic relapsers experience a different, dangerous obsession leading to memory lapses and delusional thinking. Traditional methods focusing on sobriety often fail. Instead, taking practical, proactive measures to limit relapse…
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Why Jamie Lee Curtis’s Views on Addiction Will Make You a Better Person.
Life lessons, secrets and rock-solid faith. Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis has had a distinguished career in the entertainment industry. Actor, producer and author, she has succeeded in all her endeavours. But her single most significant…
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Still Living a Double Life in Addiction? Read This
Why secrets and lies keep you stuck in relapse. My first sponsor in recovery knew I was in serious trouble. A cocaine and sex and love addict who could barely stay clean a week, blowing tens…
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Sober Celebrities That Fell Into The Sex And Love Trap
From drink and drugs to sex and love. The entertainment industry, with its never-ending carousel of beautiful men and women and adoring love-struck fans, makes it a breeding ground for sex and love addiction. It’s…
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The Most Glamorised Addiction of Them All: Sex And Love
Sex and love addiction is rampant in today’s modern world. Due to the normalisation of hardcore pornography, hook-up apps and sex work through the rise of only fans and other platforms, sex and love addiction…
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Real Faith Is What Chronic Relapsers Need To Recover
I knew the answer I’d been looking for was to go to a higher level of consciousness around the relapse question, which meant surpassing reason and reaching for faith. But how do you have faith?…
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When Eric Clapton and Al Pacino Made This One Simple Change Addiction Became a Thing of The Past
Clapton and Pacino, now clean and sober for multiple decades, are a far cry from their former selves. During the heady height of their careers in the 1970s, they were both so consumed with addiction…
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The Deadly Addiction Trap That Gets Addicts Every Time
Addiction is like a slippery slope that starts gently but eventually descends into a vertical drop that ends in a bottomless dark pit. However, there’s something sinister about this slippery slope. It’s also strangely sticky;…