My guest is Charles McIntyre, a survivor, addict, and man of God. In this episode, Charles shares his full circle story about surviving religious trauma, battling addiction, and HEALing to serve God. We explore his experience with hope, evolution, and love throughout his life and talk about Charles's work today ministering to and working with other men in addiction recovery, including that he teaches Sunday lessons regularly.

Charles and I are more alike than we are different. We are each survivors, each having suffered in our unhealthy survivorship for years, including escape and self-isolation. We experienced events that sent us to do the real work to heal. We took our HEALing journey and did the intentional and focused work to move past our suffering. And now, we are doing work the Divine calls us to do, using our lived experiences.

If God can work this way in our lives, imagine what God can do in your life.

 Highlights of this episode

💛Addiction is an escape. Escape is the way many of us survive after trauma and abuse.

💙Becoming relatable. Sometimes, our life experiences are the very things that make us relatable to others so that we can serve them.

💛What if we saw our ”failures” as lessons to make us credible and relatable in our work to serve others?

💙The power of therapy. Trauma therapy helps us dig deep into experiences that burden us when we don’t realize it. The things we do to ourselves have explanations, but we need help pulling out and processing the event(s) and our associated emotions.

💛Sharing our stories of healing for purpose: hurt people hurt people, but healed people heal people.

 Resources related to this episode

✨Men of Nehemiah (MON) is a rehabilitation center combining biblical teachings, military discipline, and clinical counseling to restore men to their roles in families and communities. I see MON as a microcosm of the HEAL framework. It is hope. It gives men the tools & resources to do the deep self-discovery work to heal the root cause of their addiction. And it is love.

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#healingmentor #healtolove #religioustrauma #addiction #addictionrecovery