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One of the biggest myths in recovery that we learn is that the enemy will convince us to avoid our pain at all costs. If we lean into and face our pain, it will only make it worse. That is a complete lie. There's an old quote that reads, "at some point protecting our pain can become protecting the prison it built". 
What are some things to think about and the costs to weigh in on in avoiding our wounds in our life? In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, global field director of celebrate recovery, will lean into this important question and what it looks like to not only acknowledge our wounds, but heal from our wounds and walk out of the prison that our years of avoiding our pain has built.

Walking this road to recovery requires having people around us. We can't face our brokenness without God and others. But sometimes the relationships on earth can get messy and dysfunctional and even become complex and tricky. What do we do when they become difficult and messy and even drama filled and chaotic? In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field, Director of celebrate recovery, will unpack the importance of how to maintain peace amidst the chaotic relationships happening around us.

Whether your day, one or day 10,001 of your recovery journey, we all will have days where we feel lost, discouraged, and even alone based on things that are happening around us and the inside of us. What are the steps toward Hope and healing when we're in this desperate place? In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field, Director of celebrate recovery, will unpack some important reminders for us to think about in the midst of our struggle to help point us toward hope and keep us on the path, keeping our eyes on Jesus through the process.

We are continuing a part two conversation around answering some hard questions from our great leaders on a local level of celebrate recovery. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field, Director of celebrate recovery, will wrap up a series of questions from the west gathering in CA that need answering to help build confidence in our great leaders on a local level.

Being a leader and celebrate recovery can be lonely at times and questions can come up that we need some extra help to help bring clarity. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field, Director of celebrate recovery, will answer some questions from Ministry leaders across the US, that were asked at the west gathering in California. The goal is to help bring clarity to some questions to help sharpen the saw of our great leaders on the local level.

What is the overall goal of vulnerability and is it the end goal? In this part two episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, will finish up this topic on understanding vulnerability and staying in a healthy space as we share through a corporate, one on one testimony and/or small group setting.
What are some practical examples of healthy vulnerability in recovery?

We've all experienced struggles around oversharing if we've been in ministry any length of time. What do we do with the scenarios? Where does over sharing take place and become unhealthy? Honesty with intention vs information for attention. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, unpacks a part one of a two-part series on understanding, vulnerability, and where we can get stuck with some practical examples. 

What does healthy vulnerability and unhealthy vulnerability look like?

One of the powerful things about principle seven of celebrate recovery is that we have an opportunity to sit with the Father and allow Him, the teacher to speak. What if we slowed down long enough to ask what He is saying to us and what He is teaching us about ourselves and others and how we move forward as believers in Jesus Christ? In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of celebrate recovery, walks us through an exercise that he and his wife practice together to allow God's word to marinate and saturate their hearts toward change.

Why do we worship and celebrate recovery? It's a question that's important for us to answer so that we understand that it's not just something we do apart from recovery but it's something that is very much setting the table and a part of the recovery process. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of celebrate recovery, will unpack his personal experiences around a recent celebrate recovery worship meeting, and some takeaways that he learned about the value of worship in a celebrate recovery meeting. Most of all, why it's more important than we realize.

Sometimes boundaries can be misinterpreted as a means to reject, control, or even push people away as a sense or source of punishment. But what is the heart behind boundaries? What was God's design in scriptures that we can learn from the value and importance of boundaries. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of celebrate recovery, discusses boundaries and the heart behind them and what our posture should be as we practice boundaries with the people around us in Ministry and our recovery.