In this episode, Barby Ingle defined Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) and what it's like living with chronic pain. She discussed her mindset of losing everything she worked hard for. Barby informed us of the importance of u...
God wants the best for you. He's not going to deliver it to you. You have to be willing to put in the work to get it. If you want something different you have to be willing to do something differently. If nothing changes then...
The best way to get a good understanding of ourselves is by becoming aware of our inner child. When we aren't aware of our inner child, we look for others to heal us or complete us. The 12 steps take us back to our childhood ...
In relationships, seek to understand rather than strive to be understood. A mistake people often make in relationships is looking for similarities. When they don't live up to our expectations, this causes us to blame others f...
Brian Russell is a professor of biblical studies. He's also a Coach, Spiritual Leader, Podcaster and the Author of his new book: Centering Prayer :Sitting Quietly In God's Presence Can Change You Life which will be released 9...
Many recovering addicts think they have a drug problem when they first get to recovery. After they are introduced to the 12 steps they find out it's much bigger than that. It was the drugs that brought us to recovery in despe...
Living clean is a spiritual process. Deep down we might have a flawed belief about what our lives may look like if we stop using. We worry that our lives will become boring and monotonous. You stopping using drugs is a question only you can answer for yourself. Remember, it is not what we think abo…
Don't be satisfied with your religious performances. Instead, build a loving personal relationship with Christ by accepting who you are. Pay attention to what you say about yourself and start experiencing the liberation to be...
The most beautiful, touching thing you can do for your mother is to forgive her. It's the most beautiful thing she have done for you. Forgive her now before it's too late.
Life gets better when we lean with the flow of it. We have to use our intuition rather than our fixed ideas if it's going to make any sense. Life doesn't care about what we think or feel. Therefore, we change our pattern of ...
Whether we realize it or not, we all talk to ourselves. No matter how hard we try to shut off our minds we don't have the ability to do it. Our self-talk reflects the way we fell about ourselves. In this episode, I talk abou...
Thousands of addicts found recovery despite the crisis they faced. You never have to use drugs again one day at a time for the remainder of your life! Let us love you until you understand how to love yourself. If I can do it,...
The flesh is trying to teach us how to gain the world and lose our soul. The Spirit enlightens us we can't lose our souls. The Holy Spirit is perfectly aware that we don't recognize our true selves. That's why God put His Spi...
Most men have no inner resources to help them escape the trap of their egos. When our emotions get in the way our vision gets narrow. A spiritual man like Joseph kept one eye on God even when he was in his feelings.
In this episode, I had an informative conversation with a good friend of mine on the Stereo app about accepting reality. Our expectations exert tremendous discomfort in our lives when we don't get what we want.
An intimate relationships must go through major reconstruction during recovery. It pertains to removing self-defeating patterns that have become embedded during active addiction.
Restoring trust takes time. Our words played an important role in addiction. They helped us stay in our self-made prison. We must proceed to do the next best thing until our words again have value. People who we have hurt le...
Learn to pay attention to what you tell yourself. Our internal dialogue has the power to calm us or make us feel inadequate. Our sense of who we are is wrapped up in our thoughts.
We have two choices. We can continue making unreasonable demands and becoming frustrated when things don't spin our way. Or we can surrender our lives to God and live at peace with ourselves and the world.
We are so focused on how we have been victimized that we fail to see how we have been harming ourselves. We wounded a lot of people, but most of all, we harmed ourselves.
Spiritual food is just as real as physical food. It satisfies us in a way that cannot be satisfied with anything physical. Fame, sex, or money cannot fill our spiritual void. Until we have a personal relationship with Christ...
Most of us can't be ourselves because we don't know who we are. We learned to be whoever we needed to be to fit in. The Bible is a spiritual mirror revealing and uncovering our defects and assets. We use it to examine our l...
At this time, this pandemic is the worst thing in the world. However, what we can not see is God orchestrating a whole new calling on our lives. One of God's strategies for directing His children's step is to get us to slow d...
God wants us to grow up. We can grow and learn every moment of every day if we are open to the lesson. Learning isn't limited to the classroom. It takes place in the kitchen and on the streets. The goal of education is to ...