A place for mothers of addicts to find hope and a pathway to healing.
When my cousin came to our home to speak about addiction recovery, he made a very interesting distinction that I had never considered. He suggested that viewing pornography is just one way of acting out on a lust addiction. This was new territory for me. I had always considered pornography viewing as the addiction; but he expanded the scope into lust addiction…
A few years ago I had a dream. It was absolutely the most terrifying experience of my life. I awoke too afraid to close my eyes again…for a very long time.Trying to pray away the feeling inside of me wasn’t enough. I woke up my husband and tried to drag him into the experience-hoping for…
To start a series on addiction recovery, I feel that a good definition of addiction is in order. I could get all clinical on you-but I won’t; that is rarely helpful to most of us lay people. The best definition that I have ever encountered was given by my cousin at a pornography addiction…
Whoa! It’s been a full summer and I haven’t posted forever, but today I am so pleased. And I am ready to tackle a blog series that has been on my mind for a very long time. For several years now I have hoped that, as religious folk, we could get serious about addiction. It…
The’ honeymoon’ phase of sin is very dangerous and absolutely misleading.
I had a strong impression not too long ago that instead of seeking for solutions and answers all of the time, we would do well to first seek for peace. Then, when we are in a calm and Godly state of mind, the solutions will come…maybe. But even if a solution isn’t readily apparent, at…
Our Savior, Jesus Christ, came to save us all-every single one of us. But he didn’t save us collectively. He didn’t minister collectively. He doesn’t have a blanket love for all of us at once. His love, pure love- charity- can only be manifest in one way: one by one. His earthly ministry is a…
Sailing on clouds and sliding on rainbows. It sounds like a fairy tale which in fact, it is. Life was NEVER intended to be a breeze. Remember that God told Adam that He had cursed the ground FOR HIS SAKE. The cursing of toil and hardship was lovingly placed FOR HIS SAKE. In light of…
When you discover that your child has a pornography addiction, it’s nearly impossible to keep your fear at bay. It swamps you like a tidal wave and flays open your deepest feelings, giving swift passage for your worst fears and a perfect stage to play out all of your insecurities, weaknesses and shortcomings as a…
