Learning to ENJOY the holiday celebrations.....12 STEP style!

Why stress?  I can only do what it is in my power to do!  Think of this time as an opportunity to GIVE BACK in service to those closest to us whom we love and remembering those who have been a blessing to us along the journey!  Maybe a little more service doing it "Santa Style" ie: surprises in secret!   

What are these 'ol holiday's' really all about anyway? Relationships! Keep it simple: Remember to be grateful for the little things with no price tag: Love, Life, Family, Forgiveness, Sobriety, a comfy bed, a full belly and mostly, peace in my soul.....Selah, and ALWAYS: take your Higher Power with ya!

GOT Peace????

Got PEACE? It is a gift when the world is at chaos, when we need direction, when we are making good choices...

I find it calming to know there is a power greater than myself and my little world that can keep the stars, the sun and the moon in place without my help! The same power that causes the sun to rise and set everyday without delay. I can safely turn over to God the things I am powerless over and cannot control. Things I am unable to fix or repair today I'll place in His hands and I'll be grateful for the things I can do to make a difference. Honestly, I wish I had more answers than I do but, it is what it is...I am not in charge! It is He that can see the grand picture of things while my view right now is a bit limited! Tonight, I will trust, rest and sleep on the wonder of these things. That's all I know....Selah! As a believer I can just: Cry out to Jesus!

Turning it OVER, Letting GO and letting GOD....

Stress is as toxic as swallowing poison.  The stress and unrelenting worry placed on our adrenals and being in a constant state of "fight or flight" raises our cortisol which leads to hormone disruption, high blood pressure, elevated blood sugar and heart disease.  So, it is suggested, we TURN it OVER to God those things we are powerless over to change.  I can't, but HE can so, I think I'll let him and take a new ride down a road I've never been.  Peace and quiet and serenity until I try to take back control over things that are really, none of my business!

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See a "PINK ELEPHANT" anyone?

I know it SEEMS like it's safer to stick our head in the sand and pretend that THING is NOT happening that is causing total destruction of our spirit, MIND or BODY but denial is truly a slow death.  We think of things that ARE as tho they are not and really it just prolongs OUR agony in dealing with a harmful, disruptive event day in day out.  Somebody has got to address this thing and take it on or things are never going to change.  We know just waiting and smiling politely and HOPING for change doesn't work now does it?

What can "I" do about it you say?
Speak the truth in love and protect yourself/family from the insanity. Set some boundaries.
Our dwelling is to be a peaceful, quiet resting place!  That's a start!

Do you WANT to be WELL?

How do I know if I am full of TOXINs or NOT? What are the signs?

Top 3 signs FREE TOXIN-O-METER!

Am I killing MYSELF in other ways? Am I grateful to be alive?

Don't worry!  There are smart things we can do
to feel good energy, strength and restore HEALTH and WELLNESS!

We Can choose LIFE, Health and healing with our food choices!

Getting HEALTHY is not just about getting or keeping our SOBRIETY!

Say this, "I  wanna LIVE!" Yes, to wellness, good energy and HOPE for living this life as it is!  Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace.  Letting go of bitterness and resentment! 

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We cannot just "talk the talk" we must also "walk the walk!"  Jesus said, Man shall NOT live by BREAD alone! (Matt 4:4.)  That means YES food and drink definitely has something to do with it but so also does faith, hope, trust and also perhaps some exercise and drinking no polluted water etc..   It is also written that, FAITH without works is DEAD. (James 2:26)  Jesus also asked the very pointed question, "Do you WANT to be WELL?"  There is HIS part to do for us what we are unable to do for ourselves and OUR part which requires taking up our bed and WALK, showing up, being honest and accepting guidance and direction toward a more healthful and meaningful life where we too will have a chance to give back if we have the strength and energy! 

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Our 12-Steps hold us to a Higher Power with responsible and purposeful deeds.  Perhaps we can't just throw around some hopeful or prayerful words but maybe we also must have some action to show for it, by the grace of GOD, to turn toward a path with health and healing promoting habits!  So you see, there is not ONE certain way that is the panacea!  But we are certain, we must DO THINGS that are suggested for our own health and wellness and recovery!
Everyone needs beauty, as well as bread, places to play and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to the body and soul alike!    

John Muir  and he also said;

I know our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found...

Is it time now for HEALTH RECOVERY?

Sometimes in the process of recovery we are resembling that of an onion.  We deal with one layer at a time.  Then sometime "years" into the road to our own recovery we realize we end up at this point; overweight, toxic and lacking energy with little motivation to even shine the light here.  You are NOT alone and there are studies that support the idea, it may NOT be all our fault!

There are BIG FOOD companies creating addictive agents to be placed in their best selling foods to get us addicted and unable to eat just a small portion of this or that.  WE PIG OUT!   Then they make SO much money on our addiction the FOOD companies give BIG overwhelming donations to Government and Medical Schools and the FDA or Cancer Society or the  Diabetes Association so that they include/endorse these items in the food chain as needed in the food groups in "moderation".   Anytime they condone a little bit of poison then folks take that as a pass all the way til they land in the hospital with a man- made, self induced preventable illness.   Who will capitilize on our foolishness then?  The next group of BIG PHARMA DRUG companies!  See how this is going?  We gotta save ourselves and NOT get DEAD!

Who are the guilty manufactures?

• Sugar People
• High Fructose Corn syrup people
• GMO for CORN, wheat and SOY people
• Artificial Food colors and flavor people
• Dairy people who poison their stock with hormones, steroids and antibiotics
• HYDROGENATED OIL people....remember for 30 years they told us to eat MARGARINE?
• The ridiculous out of control VACCINE drug people!
• The FLUORIDE in our water people

Enough said!  ALL this is causing horrendous inflammation in the body and obesity and disease like no other country like America!  Unless they have begun to emulate our ways!

Do you need to take the next step toward HEALTH RECOVERY?

Take a look around everyday and find something GOOD to give THANKS!

Giving thanks is part of moving on and letting go of resentments and anger and blame etc.  We are in charge of our own feelings and reactions to this thing called life.  Part of getting healthy and whole is getting everything we need for health and healing:  

• STRESS is a robber of our peace,
• Anger robs our joy,
• HUNGER causes us to make rash unhealthful food choices that can weaken our immune system
• Loneliness will push us into binging and relapse which is why we have to seek out connection! Meetings!
• SLEEP helps our body rejuvenate and repair and renew itself!

Say YES to nutrients found in God's food from the garden!
Say YES to going outside in fresh air and sunshine to walk or run!
Say NO to sugar sugar sugar! Chemicals dyes, flavors; 
        These will weaken our body from fighting off colds and flu for starters.  Be worried about chemicals found in tap water and vaccines and GMO's being FED to our commercial dairy and beef products that are CAUSING mass illness OUT THERE that we don't mean for ourselves! 

There are places and things that we can get involved with using good energy to change this world for the GOOD!  Instead of circling the drain with the self sabotage habits like the days of old!  Save a life!  Starting with MINE!  By the grace of God, We gotta SAVE ourselves and NOT get DEADsies!

Letting it GO

First thing I gotta do is stop and take a look around creation and know there is a power greater than myself that can restore me to sanity.  All the beauty in the earth and how the sun sets and rises everyday without my help shows me there is a Higher Power and can see the bigger picture that I cannot yet tap into for understanding. Where I HAVE BEEN and how I arrived here today at this moment with all these people in my life shows me; indeed, with some guidance I can move from here toward a better place than where I have been!  Good things are ahead with good choices!  My higher Power can do for me what I haven't been able to do for myself!

Insanity

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result! 

Do you WANT to be WELL?  Health and Healing and renewed life we look more like this:

Part of having the strength and energy to do what we gotta do is having the nutrients within that will do the miracle we need in our MIND and our BODY!   Being in recovery means we have abused and depleted our health in such a way that we need EXTRA help to get where we wanna go...

  Try nutrients and just see what happens!    If you don't like to eat these foods then zip them up in a blender and SLAM them!  You will get high on LIFE and feel better than you could ever imagine!   Lets do it.  Give your body a kick start into wellness!

How are you doing with the 12th STEP?

The12th step: is learning to be of service to someone who is lost and knows not the way, the truth, and the life! Their eyes have been blinded and they are unable to find their way clear of the things that entangle them to keep doing the wrong thing.......

Since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God (our Higher Power) to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued each of us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
So, whatever you do or say, in thought or deed, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father. Col 1:9-14, 3:17

Phil from Duck Dynasty gives thumbs up to Celebrate RECOVERY!

Nothing better than using the 12-STEPS thru any difficulty or challenge when battling our hurts, habits and hang ups! Being in recovery is alot like peeling back an onion. There are so many layers of issues we need to work on! The minute we think we have overcome some habit why, look here, there is another issue we need to look at in ourselves. That's what we like about Celebrate Recovery! We can haul ourselves in for just about anything and we'll meet some friends who suffer just like we are! Google your zipcode and CELEBRATE RECOVERY! Just show up and you 'll see! Do NOT despair! There is hope, love and support waiting for YOU!
Phil Robertson from Celebrate Recovery on Vimeo.

Got a RESENTMENT??? Let's make a GRATEFUL list!

Got a resentment? Make a grateful list!

We have to do this to get peace. Our anger will soon turn to bitterness and resentment that can make us ill and steal our joy and peace. No matter what we have been dealt there is still room to be grateful to God for something. Lot's of things really come to mind once you set your pen to paper. Oh yeah, has someone hurt you deeply? This hurts too.... pray for them to get everything they need! Just do it....your miracle will come. Remember this: I can't but HE can...I think I'll let HIM! So in other words ::::: TURN IT OVER!

CRY OUT to Jesus....

What is the PINK ELEPHANT doing in your Living room??

Why is it so hard to ACKNOWLEDGE the pink elephant in the room?

The dynamics at home are different for everyone but really the toxic problem that is destroying the lives and relationships with those we love is the most difficult to confront. Why are we so afraid to step up and say, " HEY!" Why are we afraid to take the problem head on and set some boundaries to protect our peace, our happiness and our security? Isn't the potential loss from the upset offender less than what we are experiencing now? Yes, like the story of Jonah and the Whale, there was one person's direct disobedience to God that had circumstances that were harming everyone on the ship! All the innocent ones were suffering because Jonah was running from God's WILL! So guess what they did? They threw Jonah overboard to get some peace and sanity back! Guess what? NOW Jonah was God's problem (not theirs!) and God loved Jonah so much he saved his life as a whale came and swallowed him up and spit him out to safety once the misery (in the belly of the whale) did it's magic and led Jonah to repent! Then Jonah obeyed and served God and good things happened after that!

Sometimes we gotta just let go, NOT WATCH, and let GOD deal with some people before they are gonna get it. Pain, loss and sorrow will lead men to repent, not our constant rescuing, fixing, saving, covering up and certainly NOT us pretending the problem is not real! The sooner we confront the sooner a healing can happen, by the grace of GOD! Sometimes, for the one going down, they are in so much DENIAL about an issue they won't comprehend the truth until something BAD happens. That's the only way some people are gonna learn. So step away and let some miracles happen while you hide and pray! Just don't forget, TO PRAY!

Health Recovery is the only way up!

No matter how hard we try to deny it, the fruit is plain to everyone but us sometimes.  The longer we abuse what God has given the sooner our home will not be habitable. 

Sooner or later we will have to move out if we are not being a good steward of our house!  So also, should we abuse our body for years and years it will not last.  With God there is always HOPE!  With help we can get things back in order and getting back on track will breathe new life in what seemed like a hopeless scenario.  In 12 Steps we find help, hope and healing with the comfort of others who are just like us!  With some support we can get this thing trimmed back and some windows replaced and new construction repairs and it will again be filled with warmth and laughter welcoming those who need some restoration too!! Nobody would have thought it possible but MIRACLES happen in 12-Step recovery.  

Say this, "I WANNA LIVE!"       Keep coming back!

God has always set before us Life and Death, Health and Healing and He says "Choose LIFE!"

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Do you ever feel like LIFE is "Circling the Drain?"

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DO you ever feel like; " My life is circling the drain!?!"

Take a new VIEW!   See life from a different perspective!  We cannot keep doing the same thing and expect a different result!  We will keep getting the same thing if we keep doing what we have always done.    What are the people saying about me?  Ask your HIGHER POWER for guidance and direction.  Be willing to surrender to the process of renewal.  With GOD, ALL things are possible!  I can turn to HIM to be my help in time of trouble a little faster than I used too.  If it's NOT working, then it's something I am doing wrong!!  

Let HIS light shine on the dark secret places you have not yet surrendered and then hold on to your hat!  Its going to rock and you will kick yourself for not surrendering the secret thing far sooner!  Everything is going to be all right!  YOU are going to make it!  One step at a time, work the steps!  It works, if you work it!  Love never fails!


The 8 recovery principles that will work in any defect of character issue!

Study the 12 STEPS and FIND a meeting! We can't do this alone!

•Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction (OR COMPULSIONS) - that our lives had become unmanageable

•Step 2 - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity

•Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God

•Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves

•Step 5 - Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs

•Step 6 - Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character

•Step 7 - Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings

•Step 8 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all

•Step 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others

•Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it

•Step 11 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out

•Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other folks like "US", and to practice these principles in all our affairsPlease click on a link for a step to see how that step has worked for other people.

Get connected with people JUST like YOU!  Meet with others who struggle with the same issue as you!
Find a meeting near your home!!

Turn it over, Let it GO!

Everything is going to be all right or else everything is going to be all right! Turn it over, I can't but HE can so I think I will LET HIM handle it! I am NOT in charge!

Recovery during the Holidays...

For many, this is a very difficult time.  Many of our families are broken and there is sickness, pain and trepidation involved in the anticipation.  We have a recovery family that can celebrate with us some very healthy new traditions.  There is a lot of fun going at some of our local meetings along with some of the best food ever!  Let us move forward with some good examples set before us.  St Nicholas for example made himself of service in secret!  He made the celebration of Christmas something special for folks that had no means of celebrating to the hilt like some families.  He secretly planned to give someone else a "prize" gift that they could have never truly expected in their circumstances.  We can do that.  We can plan a secret surprise for someone in need, or someone who has been especially kind to us during our insanities or someone right in front of us that is hurting more than ourselves.  We can make amends.   Honoring the true meaning of Christmas is celebrating that God did for us what we could NOT do for ourselves, He sent us a Savior and with Him comes PEACE, LOVE and JOY, acceptance and patience and kindness and long suffering....and FORGIVENESS!   Pay it forward is the best gift we can give.  God bless you during this time and GO TO A MEETING, and be of SERVICE somewhere! It's the best way to get out of our own head!  However< When it comes to our HEALTH?!?
 Save YOURSELF and lets NOT get Deadsies!

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Who can 'keep you company" during the hard parts?

FEELING OVERWHELMED? HOPELESS? Find a meeting!! NOW!


God,
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change
the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is;
not as I would have it;
trusting that you will make all things right
if I surrender to your will;
so that I may be reasonable happy in this life
and supremely happy with you forever in the next.
amen
reinhold niebuhr

There are always 2 roads to choose from, CHOOSE LIFE!

Narrow and difficult is the road that leads to life and few are they who find it.
Wide and easy is the path that leads to destruction and many are those who choose it!
Matthew 7:13 -14