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Celebrate Recovery Official
This is a podcast that shares life change stories, courage, hope and leadership wisdom, centered around the Celebrate Recovery principles. Come along for the journey.
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197. Over sharing without purpose? Pt 1
We've all experienced struggles around oversharing if we've been in ministry any length of time. What do we do with the scenarios? Where does over sharing take…
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196. If His word is true, how will this change me?
One of the powerful things about principle seven of celebrate recovery is that we have an opportunity to sit with the Father and allow Him, the teacher to…
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195. Why do we worship at Celebrate Recovery?
Why do we worship and celebrate recovery? It's a question that's important for us to answer so that we understand that it's not just something we do apart from…
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194. Boundaries are not designed for rejection
Sometimes boundaries can be misinterpreted as a means to reject, control, or even push people away as a sense or source of punishment. But what is the heart…
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193. The Serenity prayer means more than we realize
It's a beautiful prayer that we read every single week at Celebrate Recovery. This prayer, written by Reinhold Niebuhr, is more than just a rote group of words…
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192. Who am I? vs. What did I do? Pt 2
So we've been talking about the things to be aware of in the language around choices that we make, and the identity pieces connected to our choices, but what…
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191. Who am I? vs. What did I do? Pt 1
Understanding the difference between the things and choices that we've made compared to who we are in Christ is such an essential part to moving from the pit…
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190. Facing those unwanted triggers part 2
Triggers, triggers, triggers. In celebrate recovery our goal is not to eliminate triggers from someone's life, but to help prepare someone to face them with…
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189. Facing those unwanted triggers part 1
Sometimes when we think about triggers, there's some big and obvious triggers that we are well aware of. But sometimes there's those triggers that seem to come…
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188. Living out Step 10 and more- Noah W
We love that this ministry puts us on a path and trajectory with other fellow strugglers in life that we call forever family. Sitting down and having…
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187. Resting in Christ
As God's children who are serving in ministry, sometimes the first thing to go in our walk is learning how to rest in Christ. Busyness can be one of the…
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186. Revival through Open Share Group Only?
In recent years, the celebrate recovery global ministry has expanded the way churches can become a celebrate recovery ministry by hosting open share group only…
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185. How is my childhood showing up today? Pt 2
In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, global field director of celebrate recovery, will continue the conversation of understanding how our childhood can play into…
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184. How is my childhood showing up today? Pt 1
In the recovery journey, we are lifelong learners. Sometimes things can show up and give us information that is so important that we lean into so that we can…
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183. Grieving what never was
Grief is one of the most complex aspects of the recovery journey that we will all walk through. There is an element of grief in all of our stories that we may…
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182. We can't heal what we won't name
One of the schemes from the enemy is to convince us to keep those past stories and the scary parts of our heart in hiding and in that dark cave. But there is a…
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181. Understanding the "lies" beneath our habits
One of the richest parts of celebrate recovery is understanding that it's not a behavioral management process but a transformational heart process. It's so…
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180. Why does a healing path seem to make things worse sometimes?
In the recovery process, it can be painful to acknowledge and admit some things from our past, and present that are causing havoc on our life and…
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179. Addiction: what is the healing path toward freedom? Pt 2
In the last episode, we unpacked, at a high-level what addictions are and hopefully grow our curiosity and empathy toward the reasons why addictions might show…
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178. Addiction: why do we do what we don't want to do? Pt 1
1 in 3 people that come to Celebrate Recovery deal with some kind of substance abuse addiction. Everyone else is dealing with the things underneath the surface…
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177. Is it possible to be lonely in a hyper connected world?
It doesn't seem possible, but we are living in a world where we have more tools and forms of communication then we've ever had in our lifetime. And yet, we are…
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176. What does 'working it' mean?
The longer we are on the road to recovery the more tempting it is to make the resource our idol instead of the Source who is worthy to be worshipped. How do we…
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175. Fear to Peace: What if circumstances don't change?
You don't have to look very far to see the broken world around us. Circumstances happen left, and right, and they can consume us if we aren't aware, creating…
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174. How does my past trauma, abandonment, and rejection shape my present and future? Pt. 2
In this episode, we will continue the conversation in understanding how facing our past trauma, abandonment, and rejection can ultimately bring healing. How…
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173. How does my past trauma, abandonment, and rejection shape my present and future? Pt. 1
Unfortunately, in this world, we will have trouble that brings up a lot of trauma, abandonment, and rejection. In celebrate recovery we are about facing those…
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172. How do I handle the ones that didn't make it?
In this ministry, we can find that it doesn't always have a pretty ending and can be heart wrenching to walk-through. Thankfully, this doesn't happen the…
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171. What is the difference between moving on and moving forward?
A question that might come up in the Recovery journey is "why should I deal with my past? Doesn't Paul say we should forget the past and strain forward?"…
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170. Why I love step 3 and principle 3 - Scott Kemp
In celebrate recovery, we all have our own experiences and the way the Holy Spirit grows and changes us through the principles and steps of celebrate recovery…
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169. A journey of hope - Amanda's story Part 2
In this episode, we continue the conversation with a dear sister in Christ, Amanda. We get to hear how God took her from the pains of a sexual assault and…
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168. A journey of hope - Amanda's story Part 1
One of the most valuable tools we have in celebrate Recovery is speaking out loud what God has done inside of us. Anytime we have a courageous brother or…
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167. How has the enemy sabotaged sex in our life? Part 2
We've been talking about the important discussion around sex, and how God uses it as a beautiful gift in the confines of a marriage between a man and a woman…
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166. How has the enemy sabotaged sex in our life? Part 1
We've been talking about God's natural design for release of dopamine, and how the enemy can distort that and even hijack His original design as it relates to…
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165. Understanding a dopamine crash
Have you ever found yourself in a place of fatigue, depression, isolating from others and just feeling like you're tolerance for things that used to bring life…
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164. Hope in breaking chains - Testimony from Jim
There's something incredibly powerful when we get to hear the hope and life change that happens in one of our brothers and sisters in Christ. When we hear…
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163. Satan sabotages my recovery slowly and strategically to catch me off guard
One of the misconceptions of the enemy is that he is big, loud, and easy to see coming our way. But the truth is, that he is slow, sneaky, and even strategic…
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162. Satan sabotages my recovery by growing hopelessness for my situation
In recovery, one of the essential principles that we need to fuel our recovery is Hope. If the enemy can get inside our head and heart and convince us that our…
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161. The enemy sabotaging our recovery through attacking marriage and family relationships
It has been said that if the enemy can’t get to us, then he will attack our relationships. What are some of the crafty ways that he might try to create…
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160. Maintaining momentum during the holiday
During messy and hard times, including the holidays, the enemy may try to break the momentum of our recovery journey. What are some ways that we can maintain…
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159. Is freedom possible with codependency?
Sometimes in recovery, we can confuse struggling in an area of recovery with the reality of defining freedom. What does freedom look like and does that mean we…
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158. How can being the 'enforcer' hinder connection?
In Celebrate Recovery, we no doubt learned that boundaries and guidelines are essential to keeping us on the right track. Whether it's the small group…
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157. Why making amends matters - a conversation with Mac Owen
One of the most challenging parts of the recovery journey is found in Principle 6 and Step 8. This is where we pause to honestly survey the damage caused by…
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156. Living proactively through the tools of daily inventory
One of the most challenging disciplines in recovery is the act of stopping and pausing to examine our ways and test them, write them down in a journal and then…
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155. Facing the triggers of others during the Holidays
The holidays are upon us and that can bring some opportunities to grow or triggers that can set us back if we're not careful. What are some practical ways that…
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154. Is my recovery in management or healing mode?
Recovery is hard. Sometimes it's easy to shift our thinking into behavioral management and even our recovery as a whole toward management versus healing. But…
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153. Why should I trust the process if everything is going good and/or bad?
Trusting the process can seem so cliché, but is such a critical part to our healing journey. What do I do when things feel hopeless and like it's pointless to…
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152. What is the value of avoiding crosstalk inside and outside small groups?
In celebrate recovery the small group guidelines provide safety for all those in attendance. Is it just for small group or should these follow us outside the…
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151. How do we move to a more secure place in our recovery?
The celebrate recovery process helps us to face those family of origin struggles, our experiences with relationships and other wounds early on that have…
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150. How can you celebrate that?
Life has a way of throwing things at us that can feel overwhelming and hopeless as we witness the broken world around us. How can we celebrate our recovery and…
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149. Seeking Validation: A tactic to get us off focus
The enemy loves to be deceiving in giving us something like the motivation of longing for validation and recognition to meet our needs. What the enemy doesn't…
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148. I have ugly scars...?
In our culture, scars are often seen as flaws—symbols of brokenness, weakness, or something to hide. But in recovery, scars tell a very different story. They…
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147. Honoring Others' Dignity Over Our Curiosity
In Celebrate Recovery two foundational practices and guidelines we follow to ensure safety are anonymity and confidentiality. Why does Celebrate Recovery honor…
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146. Comparison: A tactic to get us off focus
One of the ways that the enemy will keep us from moving forward is through the conniving tactic of comparison. In this podcast, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field…
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145. Discouragement: A tactic to get us off focus
One of the ways that the enemy will get us off focus in the path of recovery is through discouragement. What are some ways that he will use discouragement to…
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144. Fighting Against vs Embracing Change
Sometimes submitting to the process to go deeper can be scary. Why do we fight change and why is it so scary to discover the roots of the dysfunction in our…
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143. Addressing the unhealthy roles that come from dysfunctional families (part 2)
We are continuing the conversation around adult children of dysfunctional families, and how those unhealthy and dysfunctional roles that we can develop can…
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142. Addressing the unhealthy roles that come from dysfunctional families (part 1)
Often when we walk into recovery, we experience revelations on how dysfunctional our family system was growing up. Growing up in these family systems we can…
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141. Why Being Shameless in our Sharing is Costly
We talk about shame a lot in the recovery process, but what does it look like to have a posture of shamelessness in our share time through open share, small…
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140. Finding Our Home in Recovery - Christina's Story
Sometimes, in the deepest pits of our dysfunction, we don't realize how much our heart is longing for a safe place to call home in recovery. What is the impact…
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139. What Happens to the Kids of the Incarcerated? Angel Tree!
One of the blessings of CR is partnering with incredible ministries like Prison Fellowship's "Angel Tree." In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field…
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138. Is There Hope for People Behind Bars? The CR Inside Discussion
What keeps people from stepping into the much needed space and ministry of CR Inside? What are some fears we may be facing that keep us from the blessing of…