Checking for negative -talk and self-destructive behaviors.

Transformation evolves through the ability to be genuinely authentic and radically honest.

The CDQ's Core Dialogue Queries, take you through 40 days of dialogue between you, the healthy recovering you and the addict. This is from Patrick Carnes "Recovery Start"

Using the "Core Dialogues" you can gain an understanding of how and why your addiction came to exist and take on a life of it's own.

Understanding in how the addiction came to existence and had a life of it's own

Recovery is a life long journey

A letter from my husband, written with a fully surrendered heart.

It is not your partners responsibility to police the work you do or not in your recovery process; commit yourself to figuring out your own consequences if you violate the covenant between the two of you.

The "Sticky Note" exercise exemplifies the losses and cost effect for partners to stay or not.

Having patience is a virtue. It does not come natural for most of us. Digging in the trenches of our lives require that we sit in stillness, while God is doing something supernatural of our lives. Waiting for deliverance is the hard work of our salvation. We want it to be over and NOW, yet---God's plan is not our plan....know that you are loved and being transformed into the likeness of our God.