Christ, Recovery, Twelve Steps
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Being Consumed in Christ In the Ensign, July 1989, President Ezra Taft Benson, published a First Presidency Message entitled Born of God. We are told that First Presidency Messages should hold the weight of scripture to us....
Christ, Recovery, Twelve Steps
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Seeing Each Step as Testimony of My Need to Anchor My Life in Christ Not long after beginning to study the Book of Mormon to discover if the principles in the Twelve Steps were found there, I began to see that every step...
Addiction, Christ, Recovery, Twelve Steps
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Many years ago, I read for the very first time, the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith, [Latter-day Saints] should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up. (Teachings of the Prophet...
Codependency, Perfectionism, Recovery, Twelve Steps
In a recent Twelve Step meeting I attended, someone shared about how much it bothers her when she does things that hurt others. It just throws her into a terrible state of brooding, . . . upset, . . . temptation to use her addictive behaviors. As I sit here and...
Personal Revelation, Twelve Steps, writing
We’re all different, and I can’t tell anyone else’s story or anyone else’s truth, but I am blessed to come here and have a place to tell mine. This is my truth—the truth that it has taken me many years in recovery to finally believe: Conscious...
