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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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77. Healthy Practices of Effective Leaders - Part 2
In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, continues the conversation around healthy habits we can adopt that help foster…
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76. Healthy Practices of Effective Leaders - Part 1
As we learned early through our own growth process, forming new habits in life doesn’t only apply to our personal recovery. Healthy practices and habits that…
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75. How Opioids Impacted My Life: Lou's Story
The opioid epidemic is destroying individuals, families, churches, and communities as a whole. How do we face this as a forever family to bring hope to the…
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74. Abuse, Loss, and Forgiveness - Rebecka’s Story
There’s so much hope that can be found in hearing evidence expressed of Jesus and His miracles in our life. Listening to life-change in the life of another…
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73. I'm Depressed and Don't Know What to Do: Part 2
Continuing the conversation around depression, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, gives practical ideas to provoke new thoughts…
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72. I'm Depressed and Don't Know What to Do: Part 1
Depression is one of those topics that gets a little bit tricky and hard to talk about in church circles. In our efforts to keep people from falling into a…
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71. What Is My Relationship with Anger? Jeni's Story: Part 2
We pick up with our discussion with Jeni Baker, Co-Executive Global Director of Celebrate Recovery, to look at how her personal relationships - starting with…
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70. What Is My Relationship with Anger? Jeni's Story: Part 1
As we continue the conversation around the misunderstood emotion of anger, we invite guest, Jeni Baker, Co-Executive Global Director of Celebrate Recovery, to…
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69. But My Story Isn't As Bad As...
It’s easy to fall into the comparison bug when thinking about our story and looking at our neighbor’s story. What if my story isn’t messy enough? What if my…
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68. Why Spend Time Grieving My Past?
Doing the Principle 4 “Spiritual Inventory” can look like a ridiculous thing to accomplish from the outside looking in. Why would we want to spend time looking…
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67. No Longer Denying What is There
Can you imagine going to the doctor with your illness, and in response to that the doctor keeps denying your symptoms saying, “Everything‘s fine.” But in your…
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66. Listening to Anger - Sarah’s Story
Anger can be one of the most misunderstood emotions of all that we carry as believers in Christ. But anger is just a rise against an injustice. So how do we…
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65. Life-Change Happens Across All Cultures - Jose’s Story
One of the greatest blessings about the ministry of Celebrate Recovery is that whether we come from one country or another, we all speak the same language, and…
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64. The Value of Being Present in the 5th Step (Part 2)
In this episode we will continue with Part 2 of the conversation on establishing the value of our presence versus our intellect in sitting with someone and…
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63. The Value of Being Present in the 5th Step (Part 1)
One of the greatest gifts we have in recovery is being able to sit with someone who enters into the scary parts of their story. This may even be the first time…
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62. Facing the Opioid Epidemic - Part 2
On this podcast, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, continues his interview with two brothers in Christ - Nick and Ryan - in part 2…
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61. Facing the Opioid Epidemic - Part 1
The numbers are staggering when it comes to the opioid epidemic and how it’s impacting individuals, families, and communities across the globe. How do we get…
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60. Connection with Self
It can seem a little bit awkward when we think about the idea of connecting with "self." It might seem like the last person I want to connect with in my…
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59. Jesus Met Me Under the Table - Rodney's Story
What happens when we refuse to face the hurts and trauma from our past? Sometimes, wherever we sit in our brokenness can keep us stuck there and even hidden…
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58. The Costs of Drinking from Toilets?
There are some aspects of our life that if we really think about it sound and seem repulsive. What are some things that represent your version of “toilet…
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57. Redefining Relapse
What do you think of when you hear the word relapse? It's easy to box it into a very defined picture but what if the act of relapse is not the only thing we…
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56. Value of a Daily Inventory
The practice of taking a daily inventory can feel arduous and laborious at times if we forget the value behind this practice. What makes this so valuable?In…
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55. Keep Coming Back…Why?
In celebrate recovery we tend to find our own language that we use to help us stay on the road to recovery. What does it mean to “keep coming back“ in this…
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54. From Anger, Bitterness and Confusion to a Life of Hope - Scott’s Story
What if you received an invitation from your girlfriend to attend celebrate recovery just two months into your relationship? Would that get you pumped up and…
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53. Broken Home and Hopelessness to Freedom- JP’s Story
Life change story testimonies can be a lifeline for us in our recovery journey. Have you ever listened to a testimony and wondered to yourself “how is this…
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52. Staying Connected with God During the Holidays
During the holidays especially we can find ourselves distracted, busy and overwhelmed by the overall season. How do we stay connected with God in the midst of…
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51. What does One Day at a time really mean?
In recovery language we often use the phrase live one day at a time“. But what does that really mean? Is it more than just a catchy cliché that we say to each…
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50. Abuse, Car Wrecks and Cancer- Matt’s Story pt 2
In this week’s podcast Rodney Holmstrom continues the conversation with Matt in unpacking what life change and healing looks like in his life. How did Matt…
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49. Abuse, Car Wrecks and Cancer- Matt’s Story pt 1
Pain has a way of getting our attention and can be the catalyst toward getting help and working on our recovery. What does it look like when we have event…
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48. “From peacekeeper to peacemaker”-Domingo’s story
One of the greatest hopes we find in celebrate recovery is when we see evidence of Jesus and his life change power in a fellow strugglers life. This week, join…
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47. Understanding why we worship in Recovery? Pt 2
Continuing the conversation around worship we unpack the heart behind worship and singing in the midst of our pain, as we grow through the pain, and ultimately…
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46. Understanding why we worship in Recovery? Pt 1
One of the core values in Celebrate Recovery is worship. Worship is incorporated into our general meeting night. But what is the point of worship? Why do we…
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45. Dealing with Abandonment
Can I find healing from abandonment and rejection from my past? Do you ever get over something like that? If not, how does one grow through that?This week…
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44. Am I Striving Forward?
Sometimes we can buy it into the false narrative that pressing forward means driving. But what does it look like to walk in trust and his truth toward lasting…
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43. Do I Struggle with Codependency?
What in the world is codependency and how do I know if I struggle with it? Maybe you’re in a position where many people are telling you that you are a…
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42. What is Your Escape Plan? (Part 1)
Continuing through this series we have been walking through a proactive plan to keep us from ending up in the wrong neighborhoods, with the wrong people, doing…
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41. Developing Your Escape Plan: Adding and Subtracting
As we continue this series on developing an escape plan we wanted to unpack some practicals of those things that we need to be removing from our life but just…
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40. Developing an Escape Plan: Boundaries: Pt 2
Boundaries are a critical part of learning to apply to our life to put around ourselves to keep us in healthy spaces as we work the recovery principles. In…
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39. Developing an Escape Plan: Boundaries: Pt 1
Today, we continue the conversation on a proactive plan to keep us from falling into bad neighborhoods, the wrong people, and those unhealthy things that we…
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38. Developing a Healthy Escape Plan
As we do the hard work of digging into the roots of our compulsive behaviors, addictions, or unhealthy habits, defenses, or protections, it is important that…
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37. What is Codependency?
One of the most confusing struggles in our recovery circle is the topic of “codependency“ What is it anyway? What are some of those characteristics that can…
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36. Recovery is for Pastors Too
Can celebrate recovery benefit pastors to? One of the blessings of Celebrate Recovery are the many paths for people to find healing from the hurts, hangups and…
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35. Can God bring healing to My Addictions?
As we continue through our discussions around addictions, we wanted to put some real-life experiences around this topic. This week we asked Mac Owen, Global…
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34. What does healing look like when Battling Addictions? - Part 3
We’ve been unpacking a better understanding of addictions and how that plays out in our life. But is healing really possible? Can I find freedom in this area…
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33. Understanding Addictions - Part 2
Addictions can take grip on our lives, our heart, and mind, leaving a path of destruction and a great deal of pain. On this weeks podcast, Rodney continues the…
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32. Gambling Addiction: My Used-to-Be Story- Terry
As we’ve been unpacking and understanding addictions in this weeks podcast we wanted to put some skin on this area. We love and admire the courage of our…
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31: Understanding Addictions - Part 1
1 in 3 people coming into CR struggle with some form of Substance Addiction. Are there other things we can become addicted to as well? Understanding what and…
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30: Why Examine the Past?
It can be a scary and difficult space to enter into when facing and explaining our past. What is the point of doing this? Aren’t we supposed to just move…
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29: Serenity: What Does it Mean?
We read the Serenity Prayer ever week but sometimes we can lose sight of what it is we are actually reciting. This week, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field…
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28: Walking Alongside a Fellow Struggler
Walking alongside someone who is struggling with a mental health can be one of the most treasured relationships in our life. But, if we are being honest…
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27. Why Do I Do What I Do?
Understanding our past and the reasons why we might see the action tendencies we do is critical to moving forward.How do we enter into this space with grace…
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26. What if Others Don’t See the Change?
One of the challenges in recovery can be building a space where those we’ve hurt start seeing and trusting the change we are experiencing personally. But what…
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25. What Forgiveness is NOT
One of the greatest keys to recovery is the ability to receive and extend forgiveness. It can be one of the most difficult practices and an ask obedience in…
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24. Relearning Trust
Trust can be one of the biggest and even most difficult parts of our growth process. When is it ok to start trusting again? What does this look like? Join…
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23. “Songs of Peace and Forgiveness” with Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director, David Attebery, and Andy Petry, Landing Director of Celebrate Recovery
I’m recovery God inspires us toward new ways of thinking and applying parts of God’s word we never imagined we would ever practice. We love how God writes new…
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22. “Breaking Down the Walls“ with Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director and Ken Haffner, South Central Regional Director
Those walls in recovery can keep us from working the recovery process. What are some things to be mindful of as we explore breaking down the walls toward…
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21. Breaking down walls of Denial with Speaker Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director and Sheila Knudson, NE Regional Director
Living in denial can build hopelessness, helplessness, and anxiety. How did God begin helping Sheila break down those walls so that she could begin living out…
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20. Battling the Perfectionistic Bug
Speaker: Rodney and Carol Holmstrom Have you ever found yourself in a space of thinking that what you do is never good enough? Maybe a try harder or woulda…
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19. Building Resilience in Ministry
How do we build resilience through a broken world we live in so that we can carry out the mission God has placed on our heart. What does resilience look like…
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18. Life change story: Meet Michael with Speaker: Rodney Holmstrom
Hearing a testimony from people that have worked and walked through the process of celebrate recovery can bring encouragement and hope to us all. Take a few…