Tag: Spiritual experience
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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 alone may not lead to lasting change. Embracing each day with openness and purpose is the key to thriving in…
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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? A living, practical, working faith? The kind of faith you could place your life on as mine was rapidly heading…
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A Highly Unusual Approach To The Addiction Problem
Why do we relapse? Why do we go back after all the promises, solemn oaths and daily hours of work to stay sober? It’s not that we can’t stop once we start (that’s old news; after all, that’s what qualifies us as addicts).
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Why Addiction Can’t Be Solved In a Three-Dimensional World
Scientists have spent decades trying to prove a visual link for addiction in the brains of hopeless addicts, but to date, no neural footprint has ever been found.
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The Biggest Spiritual Mistake Addicts Make In Recovery
Addicts praying to stay sober are committing the number one cardinal sin in recovery.
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Relapse Prevention Strategies Simply Do Not Work For Chronic Relapsers
The colossal delusion of relapse prevention techniques.
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Are Recovery Meetings Really Necessary if You No Longer Relapse?
Sitting in church basements listening to strangers talk about God and their darkest hour while crunching on old, stale biscuits dipped in lukewarm tea definitely wasn’t the dream life I’d envisioned.
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Why The Book Of Alcoholics Anonymous Is Probably The Most Powerful Spiritual Book Ever Written
A Gift To Humanity Not Just Addicts
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When I Finally Lost All Hope of Getting Clean That’s When My Recovery Started
What if you were the ‘real addict’ as mentioned in the book of Alcoholics Annonymous (the Big Book) and were, in fact, ‘truly powerless’ that there was nothing you or anybody could do about your relapsing? What would you do then? Would you still spend your time praying for another sober day? Writing daily gratitude…
Darren James 