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Chemical Dependency Codependency Eating Disorders Freedom from Anger Love & Relationship Addiction Sexual Addiction Sexual, Emotional, & Physical Abuse (For Women) How Celebrate Recovery Helps & Heals
Chemical Dependency is a progressive disease. In most people, addiction begins slowly and grows until life becomes progressively unmanageable. As repeated efforts to gain control over alcohol or drug use fail, life for the chemically dependent person begins to fall apart. Lives can be shattered. Consequences are often reflected in the addicted individual's family life, health, spiritual happiness, social life, school or work relationships, and legal matters. In spite of thoese problems, the chemically dependent person continues to use alcohol or drugs. Repeated efforts to quit or cut down invariably collapse in failure.
How do you know if you are chemically dependent?
If you answered YES twice or more, then you are probably in trouble with alcohol or drugs.
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There are many definitions used to talk about codependency. In its broadest sense, codependency can be defined as an addiction to people, behaviors, or things. Codependency is the fallacy of trying to control interior feelings by controlling people, things, and events on the outside. To the codependent, control or lack of it is central to every aspect of life. The codependent may be addicted to another person. In this interpersonal codependency, the codependent has become so elaborately enmeshed in the other person that the sense of self - personal identity - is severely restricted, crowded out by that other person's identity and problems. Additionally, codependents can be like vacuum cleaners gone wild, drawing to themselves not just another person, but also chemicals (alcohol or drugs, primarily) or things - money, food, sexuality, or work. They struggle relentlessly to fill the great emotional vacuum within themselves. A codependent is someone who exhibits too much, and often inappropriate, caring for other people.
Characteristics of Codependency
The Eating Disorders Group will provide support to anyone with food issues and will focus on strengthening their relationship with God. This will provide freedom from the ongoing internal battle with good. You can expect to become closer to God through His Word, the Recovery Principles, and the love and support of others.
Characteristics of an Eating Disorder
EVery person has a "pattern of toxic behavior" that can significantly damage the important and intimate relationships in his or her life. Anger is one of our ten basic, God-given, emotions. This emotion can be constructive or destructive, depending on our response. The focus of this group is on giving Jesus a "nano-second" to help us learn to use all of our emotions according to God's design for our lives, and to appropriately change our pattern of relating to others and our responsibilities. When most of us think of an "angry" person, we think of someone who destroys themselves and their relationships through uncontrollable outbursts of rage. We usually picture someone who goes around slamming doors, yelling loudly, and making life miserable for everyone, including themselves. Equally as damaging and destructive is anger that is suppressed or "stuffed." All anger, if allowed to, will continue to destructively influence our behaviors and attitudes, and will ultimately erupt from deep within the heart.
Do I have a problem with anger?
If you agreed with FOUR to EIGHT of these statements, your anger is probably more constant than you would like. If you agreed with NINE or more of these statements, there is a strong possibility that you have struggled wtih periods of anger or rage, whether you are aware of it or not.
This group provides a safe place to deal with the depression, isolation, lack of trust, and the unhealthy use of love and relationships as a means of achieving worth.
The characteristics of Love and Relationship Addiction are:
Sexual addiction is best described as a progressive intimacy disorder characterized by compulsive sexual thoughts and acts. Like all addictions, its negative impact on the addict and on family members increases as the disorder progresses. Over time the addict usually has to intensify the addictive behavior to achieve the same results. For some sex addicts behavior does not progress beyond compulsive self-gratification or the extensive use of pornography, phone, or computer sex services. For others, addiction can involve illegal activities such as exhibitionism, voyeurism, obscene phone calls, child molestation, or rape (for men).
Sexual addiction starts as lust or an overpowering desire for pleasurable relief from inner pain, emptiness, or insecurity with which the individual cannot cope. At first, it is used to dissolve tension, relieve depression, resolve conflict and to provide the means to deal with or escape from seemingly unbearable life situations. Eventually, the quest for relief becomes an addiction, and the addiction takes on a life of its own. Pleasure and relief are gradually replaced with tension, depression, rage, guilt, and even physical distress. The addict is driven to spend more time thinking about and carrying out the addiction, annd lives in denial tot avoid recognizing how much of life is controlled by the addiction.
Finally, the addiction begins to take priority over everything: the ability to work, live in the real world, relate to others and be close to God. What began as the cure becomes the sickness. The answer has become the problem. A new loneliness overwhelms the addict and he becomes increasingly separated from God and others. Often, as the addict seeks sobriety, stays sexually sober for some length of time, he discovers that even though he may not be acting out the compulsion, the obsession remains.
The Sexual, Emotional & Physical Abuse group is a Christ-centered group for women who have encountered past physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse. One of the keys to the group's success is that women with a similar background (history of abuse) come together for common goals and objectives to enter into or maintain recovery. Recovery for abuse women is two-fold. They need healing from the trauma done in the past. They also need healing from the influence these past experiences continue to have on their present lives.
This group provides a safe, supportive environment. The strength of the safe environment comes from the power of the group effort. Each woman is respected and acknowlledged for where she needs to be on her own road to recovery. The group acknowledges the sensitivity needs of each of its members.
Celebrate Recovery cannot solve life's problems, but it can show people how to learn to live without the hurts, habits, and hangups and live one day at a time with the help of our Higher Power, Jesus Christ. As individuals become free, life becomes more manageable through the power of Christ.
By working through the Eight Recovery Principles found in the Beatitudes, receiving the healing and power of Jesus Christ, one can and will change! Individuals begin to experience true peace and serenity and no longer have to rely on dysfunctional, compulsive, and addictive behaviors as a temporary "fix" for pain.
By applying the biblical principles of conviction, conversion, surrender, confession, restitution, prayer, quiet time, witnessing and helping one another, individuals will be restored and develop stronger relationships with God and others.
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