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Achieving a life of healing and thriving after betrayal and abuse through a connection with God can involve several transformative practices. Here are some ways to integrate spirituality into your path: Embrace Daily Prayer and Meditation Creating a routine that includes daily prayer and meditation allows you to cultivate a deeper relationship with God. Use this time to express your feelings, seek guidance, and find solace. Meditation can help quiet the mind, making space for divine insights and peace. Reflect on scripture or uplifting spiritual texts that resonate with your journey, allowing them to provide comfort and direction. Engage in Scripture Study Diving into the Bible or other sacred texts can offer you the wisdom and encouragement needed to navigate through your healing process. Seek verses that speak of God’s love, forgiveness, and restoration. Journaling your reflections on these passages can deepen your understanding and help you apply their teachings

The 12-step recovery framework offers a structured and compassionate approach to healing from emotional pain, addiction, or trauma. It emphasizes self-awareness, accountability, and personal growth, guiding individuals through a process of acknowledgment, forgiveness, and resilience. By fostering connection, spirituality, and community, the program provides a foundation for rebuilding trust in oneself and others while moving toward lasting healing. 1. Admit Powerlessness When betrayal or trauma occurs, it often feels as though life is spiraling out of control. Emotions like shame, anger, and helplessness can dominate. Admitting powerlessness isn’t about giving up; instead, it’s a recognition that the hurtful event was beyond your control and not your fault. This acknowledgment is liberating because it allows you to stop blaming yourself and start focusing on what you can change—your path forward. Reflecting on this step might involve journaling or discussing feelings with someone you trust, which can offer clarity and relief. 2.

Trauma is an emotional response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms an individual’s ability to cope. It can stem from a wide range of experiences, including abuse, accidents, natural disasters, loss of a loved one, betrayal, or exposure to violence. Trauma often disrupts one’s sense of safety, connection, and stability, leaving lasting effects on mental, emotional, and even physical well-being. The journey of recovery from trauma is a deeply personal process. It is not linear, nor is it one-size-fits-all. Each individual carries their own story, shaped by unique experiences, emotions, and coping mechanisms. This article delves into the intricacies of trauma recovery, exploring its challenges, strategies, and the profound transformation that can emerge from the process. Understanding Trauma: Types and Effects Trauma can manifest in various forms, including: Acute Trauma: Resulting from a single distressing event, such as an accident or sudden loss. Chronic Trauma: Arising from

As I was beginning to fall asleep last night God started revealing to me details about this blog. First showing me a drop of blood and a tear-drop and how they are symbolically the same shape. They seem to fall the same way and through drawings you see them look the same. Are they the same makeup or are they made completely different from each other? What is the spiritual meaning of the tear drop? The drop of blood? Since it is Holy Week, let’s take a look and find out what is so beautiful about them both. Drop of Blood The blood is significant for our life in many ways. As with the human body it contains the oxygen as flows from the heart and throughout the body, giving necessary nutrients to all areas within. Feeding our body and brain with everything needed to keep breathing, with our heart

Have you tried to put a broken heart back together? Healing hearts can be painful, taking it step by step. It’s through each step that you move further away from the pain and closer to the healing. Each step can bring about healing and also revealing the deep root of the issue. That is crucial to recovery and to staying healed. If you would just continue to cover the scab and not deal with the issue underneath, it will just continue to be painful and delay the healing. I guess this is why I love the step work process for recovery. Not only did it save my life and reveal so many deep issues, I’ve seen it work in keeping my son sober for nearly 8 years after a horrible addicted life and I’ve seen it work in my daughter’s life as well. Healing hearts in Step 3 Step 3

I was recently asked about leadership without controlling the purpose of it. How do you lead and not take control of the program, the situation, the business or what ever it may be? For me it’s a simply answer, I can’t control anyone except my own actions or reactions. That is all I can do, this goes along with Step 1 of the Big Book, the 12 Steps of Healing, the 12 Steps of Recovery. These are the steps I know and try to live daily in my life because I know how they work and the greatness that has come from following them. I was recovering from being once married to a sex addict, and I used the 12 Step program at a recovery center for couples, an ex spouse such as myself. This program saved my life and it changed my life as well. Leadership Leadership is described

In this course we are going to discover the Great Steps, and how they can begin healing hearts. beginning with Step One.  The step work helped me in my recovery and made a big impact on my life, my outlook, my boundaries and my attitude. I used them to help in my healing through betrayal and trauma. If you do the work and I mean do the work, you will see your life turn around and your healing begin. So let start off by recognizing the Steps in each one and begin looking for the causes, the hurts, the pains and the healing. Shall we begin? We admitted we are powerless over the betrayal caused in our lives and that our lives have become unmanageable. We admitted It’s hard to admit at times but bringing it out and to our forefront in so beneficial to our mental and body health

Have you ever had a lawn or flower bed full of weeds and unwanted grass? If so then you know that you’ve got to be pulling up weeds before they overtake everything. Today was a beautiful day to be outside, so I decided to get some yard work done while I had the chance. I figured  I would get those weeds pulled up before I couldn’t see the ground any longer. It seems that if you let them grow a little, they grow a lot and spread to growing many neighbors. Soon they overtake everything and it’s so hard to get them cleared out. You can think you’re making headway and you’re really not. While I was pulling up the weeds, a few would break off before I could get the root, so I would have to use my garden tool, dandelion digger as I call it, and push it

Precious and few are the moments the two of us can share,  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I95xCjQe6Jg )  Not sure why those words and song keep going on in my mind but they do remind me of my Jesus and the also remind me of a time long ago. Lord, there are times I get so tired of trying, surviving, thinking, praying, hoping, wondering, and wishing. Guess that’s when I finally have to give  up and just surrender and let you. But dadgum it God, I’m just tired of being this way, as I know so many others do as well. You take us to the level we can’t handle anymore to bring us back up in the way You want us to be. Redeemed. It just gets really hard sometimes Father especially when you’re all alone. Being set apart I know You have set me apart but as this moment I am just

This is something my precious grandma always said to me any my siblings growing up. “You can grow old in numbers but never grow up.” She was saying, you may get old by the number of years you’ve been alive but never loose that childlike heart. Enjoy life and live it to the fullest. My grandma sure did. She loved being funny and silly. I can remember one time she and my dad had a blast on his motorcycle. My grandma grew up during the early 1900’s and during the depression she had her family. She never had much because times were so hard and she never complained either. So to her these special moments of being silly or enjoying life, was her greatest treat in life. Not money, but family. She was forever “Motorcycle Grammy” after that. She may have been around 80 years old but it didn’t stop