If you’re already in spiraling self-medication mode, this episode is your rescue plan.

Continually confessing “I drank too much," "I yelled,” or “I ate the whole pie” will never fix what’s really broken. Using real-life examples and Scripture, I'll walk you straight past the surface symptoms to the root your holiday triggers are screaming about: wounded love showing up in fear, control, unforgiveness, worthlessness, pride.

You’ll discover: why the same sins keep showing up every Christmas, the exact questions to ask yourself before you step into the confessional, and why “name & number” confession is good…but why confessing the root changes everything.

Advent is a penitential season for a reason. Stop band-aiding symptoms. Get to the root with confession and walk into the new year lighter than you’ve felt in years.

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L | Listen (Receive the Word via audio or video.)

O | Observe (Connect the passage to your life and recent events.)

When's the last time you went to Confession? Isn't it time? Advent is a penitential season, the time to get to the wounded love at the root of your self-medication, and let God love and heal you there.

V | Verbalize (Pray about your thoughts and emotions.)

Remembering that He loves you and that you are in His presence, talk to God about the particulars of your O – Observe step. You may want to write your reflections in your LOVE the Word® journal. Or, get a free journal page and guide in the right-hand margin.

E | Entrust (Rest in the Word.)

Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom, with the Holy Spirit your Beloved Spouse, lend me your wisdom and illumine my heart and mind so I may become free to glorify God by reaching my full potential, the glory for which I was created.  Amen +

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What We Discussed | Show Notes

Overview:

Minutes 00:00-15:00 – addictions and abstinence; not a counseling session; name and number

Minutes 15:01-30:00 – finding the predominant fault, the root; guilt and shame; stages of purification and healing

Minutes 30:01-60:00 – "sin will have no dominion over you"; the open door; applying the right medicine to the right place in the soul

Transcript

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