The following is a guest blog by one of our program director, Brandon Berry. When I first got sober in 2002 I had no idea what I was doing. I had spent the last 10 years of my life getting high and manufacturing methamphetamine. I had never thought about getting sober till the day I...
Tag: <span>12 step recovery</span>
Finding a God of Your Understanding
The extraordinary quality of living a program of recovery is deciding on a God of your understanding, with no end to the varieties of belief possible. Many men and women find they have been trying to live without God, having surrendered to drugs and alcohol finding themselves powerless to control their drinking and using. The...
Admitting Powerlessness: Finding Strength in Surrender
The strength in surrender is a hard won battle for addicts who have tried, unsuccessfully, to stop using multiple times. Others still may have difficulty even admitting that they had a problem, to begin with. The ability to let go, and become flexible to an entirely new way of living is a challenging task for even...
5 Ways Your Character Defects Hinder Your Recovery
Recognizing character defects in others is sometimes easier than recognizing our own. Part of the rehab and recovery process for substance abuse means identifying our personal character defects and recognizing how we let our character defects hinder recovery. 5 Ways Your Character Defects Hinder Your Recovery Why do character defects hinder recovery from addictions, not...