Celebrate Recovery- Meetings To Help You Heal From Habits, Hurts and Hang-Ups

Celebrate Recovery is a place where hurting people can go and get support and help in a group setting. There may be a speaker, music, testimonies, and then support groups. 

The meetings are held in various places (usually churches) in a community and are free unless there may be an optional dinner included. 

Celebrate Recovery provides a safe environment for real life change in Jesus Christ, as participants personally work through specific biblically-based recovery steps in the context of Christian community.

Celebrate Recovery helps with hurts, habits, 
and hang-ups

Eight Recovery Principles , by Rick Warren

1. Realize I’m not God; I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and my life is unmanageable.
"Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor.” Matthew 5:3

2. Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him, and that He has the power to help me recover. "Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4

3. Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control. "Happy are the meek.” Matthew 5:5

4. Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself and to another person whom I trust. "Happy are the pure in heart.” Matthew 5:8

5. Voluntarily submit to any and all changes God wants to make in my life. "Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires.” Matthew 5:6

6. Evaluate all my relationships, offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others when possible, except when doing so would harm them or others. 
"Happy are the merciful” Matthew 5:7 "Happy are the peacemakers” Matthew 5:9

7. Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer in order to know God and His work for my life and gain the power to follow His will.

8. Yield myself to be used by God to bring this good news to others, both by my example and by my words. "Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires.” Matthew 5:10

 their courage to do it.

Celebrate Recovery 12 steps and scriptures

1. We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors. That our lives had become unmanageable. Romans 7:18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
2.  Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Philippians 2:13 For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.
3.  Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God. Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Lamentations 3:40 Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs. James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. James 4:10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. Luke 6:31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.
9. Made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Matthew 5:23-24 Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. 1 Corinthians 10:12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and power to carry that out. Colossians 3:16a Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly.
12. Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and practice these principles in all our affairs. Galatians 6:1 Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.

 Celebrate Recovery is a nation wide ministry. 

Seek Celebrate Recovery on the web today for a location near you. 

Reference 
http://www.celebraterecovery.com/

Diane Davidson Gammon MS is clinically supervised by Michael Loftis LCSW as she pursues  LPC-MHSP licensure.
 
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 By Diane Davidson 
                               Gammon M.S.
         Clinical Mental Health Counselor

 Open Full-Time Days - Monday through Saturday
With Evening Appointments
615-556-8406
Email- Diane@LivingWithHopeCounseling.com

Sliding Scale Fee for Individual Counseling Sessions 

Free Support Groups for: Depression, Anxiety, Panic, Hopelessness, Trauma, PTSD, Abuse, and Grief and Loss (Including Miscarriage/ Stillbirth/ Infant loss)

 Have Hope! Renew Health! and...........

  

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do- Tips That Can Help

Your Relationship May Be Over----------- 
But Your Life Is Not Over

• Focus on yourself, if you've found yourself focused a great deal on your ex-partner or husband/wife. 
• If you've focused too much on yourself, turned inwards and stopped seeing friends and family then it's time to focus outwards and engage with their lives.

• Do all you can to work on building up your personal strength and self-esteem, most importantly by being kind and compassionate with yourself. Demonstrate self-care and self-respect.

• Try to Stop blaming - your ex as well as yourself. 
• It's the one thing that is going to stop you being able to let go and move on. It is much harder if you haven't been given the opportunity to 'spit it all out' and talk it over. The never being given an opportunity to have a conversation about it may be harder to forgive than the reasons as to why your relationship or marriage ended and how it ended.

• Change your surroundings, move furniture, clear up, buy new sheets and pillows for your bed. This is your space (if indeed it is and you haven't had to move in with someone as a temporary solution)! It will help you gain a sense of control, and having a sense of control is one of our essential emotional needs.

• Delete what and who needs to be deleted from your social media sites as much as you can, so as not to be confronted with your ex's to-ings and fro-ings at any time of the day.
• Remind your friends and family to keep your ex out of the conversation if possible. Ask them to be really sensitive when that can't be avoided (possibly because of your insistence to tell!).

• Get professional help if you need to. There is no need to suffer in silence and be alone.

Try to remember that by taking control and doing something to deal with the pain of an ending- that you're always going to feel better.

Reference- http://www.professional-counselling.com/getting-over-a-breakup-and-forget.html

Diane Davidson Gammon MS is clinically supervised by Michael Loftis LCSW as she pursues  LPC-MHSP licensure.
 
CLICK HERE For Living With Hope Counseling Facebook Page AND "LIKE" IT!
 


 By Diane Davidson 
                               Gammon M.S.
         Clinical Mental Health Counselor

 Open Full-Time Days - Monday through Saturday
With Evening Appointments
615-556-8406
Email- Diane@LivingWithHopeCounseling.com

Sliding Scale Fee for Individual Counseling Sessions 

Free Support Groups for: Depression, Anxiety, Panic, Hopelessness, Trauma, PTSD, Abuse, and Grief and Loss (Including Miscarriage/ Stillbirth/ Infant loss)

 Have Hope! Renew Health! and...........

  

God Loves You & Hears Your Prayers

Do you often feel like God is not with you?

Do you get impatient and feel that He is not listening to your prayers?


God hears every word that you pray to Him. 

He just does not answer all of our prayers in the timing that we want and in the ways that we would like for Him to.

Learn to be patient and to understand that His perfect will and His timing is in your best interest. 

Just because He does not answer your prayers in the way that you would like- does not mean that he is not there. 

He is always with you!   

So be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid and do not panic before them. For the LORD your God will personally go ahead of you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you. Deuteronomy 31:6

  Diane Davidson Gammon MS is clinically supervised by Michael Loftis LCSW as she pursues  LPC-MHSP licensure.
 
CLICK HERE For Living With Hope Counseling Facebook Page AND "LIKE" IT!
 


 By Diane Davidson 
                               Gammon M.S.
         Clinical Mental Health Counselor

 Open Full-Time Days - Monday through Saturday
With Evening Appointments
615-556-8406
Email- Diane@LivingWithHopeCounseling.com

Sliding Scale Fee for Individual Counseling Sessions 

Free Support Groups for: Depression, Anxiety, Panic, Hopelessness, Trauma, PTSD, Abuse, and Grief and Loss (Including Miscarriage/ Stillbirth/ Infant loss)

 Have Hope! Renew Health! and...........

  

Who Are You? What/ Who Influences You?

What would you be / who would you be / if you could be and do what you really wanted?

What is stopping you?

We are usually our biggest barriers.

Our negative thoughts are our biggest barriers.  

Ask yourself where/ how you believe you were influenced the most to have the belief system about yourself that you have.

Once you recognize this, it makes it easier to understand why you may have a stronghold onto some of your self-beliefs.   

Then, you can start to identify why you have some of your core beliefs. 

Once you understand this, you can begin to make some positive changes in your thought process and your life. 

What are your passions? What makes you- you if you were really being yourself? 

Ask yourself this: 
What about me gives me a positive sense of who I am?

  Diane Davidson Gammon MS is clinically supervised by Michael Loftis LCSW as she pursues  LPC-MHSP licensure.
 
CLICK HERE For Living With Hope Counseling Facebook Page AND "LIKE" IT!
 


 By Diane Davidson 
                               Gammon M.S.
         Clinical Mental Health Counselor

 Open Full-Time Days - Monday through Saturday
With Evening Appointments
615-556-8406
Email- Diane@LivingWithHopeCounseling.com

Sliding Scale Fee for Individual Counseling Sessions 

Free Support Groups for: Depression, Anxiety, Panic, Hopelessness, Trauma, PTSD, Abuse, and Grief and Loss (Including Miscarriage/ Stillbirth/ Infant loss)

 Have Hope! Renew Health! and...........