G4 Addiction

G4 Addiction episodes:

• 10.30.2017

  Gaining a Healthy Relationship with Food - Step 9

  If the law of God can be summarized in a positive command, then we must end this study talking about how to “run to” God rather than merely how to “run from” sin. Life is not about what we avoid,...

  
• 10.30.2017

  Gaining a Healthy Relationship with Food - Step 8

  Are you enjoying where you are? Even if you are not “there yet,” can you identify aspects of this part of your journey that make it significantly better than where you’ve been? Unless you can answer “yes” to this question...

  
• 10.30.2017

  Gaining a Healthy Relationship with Food - Step 7

  As you reach this chapter the momentum of change has probably already fluctuated several times. Getting started was hard. It felt like an uphill battle. Old patterns of life didn’t want to let go of you and you didn’t want...

  
• 10.30.2017

  Gaining a Healthy Relationship with Food - Step 6

  This is probably the chapter you were looking for when you started this study. Thank you for your patience and perseverance in getting to this point. The foundation you’ve laid will help to ensure that your current efforts towards establishing...

  
• 10.30.2017

  Gaining a Healthy Relationship with Food - Step 5

  You will only be as free as you are honest. Privacy kills change and fuels sin. Transparency kills sin and fuels change. Chances are this step may scare you as much as any step you have taken since the first...

  
• 10.30.2017

  Gaining a Healthy Relationship with Food - Step 4

  Should we really say, “God I am sorry my food portions were not ideal (either too large or too small)?” After all, haven’t we established that God does not have an ideal body type? Doesn’t the idea of repenting for...

  
• 10.30.2017

  Gaining a Healthy Relationship with Food - Step 3

  If only we could say that we eat because we’re hungry, and we stop when our hunger is satiated. But does anyone really eat that way? We eat for comfort. We abstain because of fear. We eat to socialize. We...

  
• 10.30.2017

  Gaining a Healthy Relationship with Food - Step 2

  Thank you for continuing on this journey. It takes courage to persevere in something that is difficult. You are to be commended for completing step one and beginning step two. In this step we will examine breadth and impact of...

  
• 10.30.2017

  Gaining a Healthy Relationship with Food - Step 1

  What is your goal for this study? We’ll discuss several self-defeating goals a bit later in this study, but for now let’s consider what a good, sustainable goal would be for this study: To develop and sustain a satisfying lifestyleThat...

  
• 08.02.2017

  True Betrayal - Step 9

  It would be easy to want this study, like this season of your life, to just be over. But this study, like your life, has least one more chapter (and several appendices) left. When you put a great deal of...

  
• 08.02.2017

  True Betrayal - Step 8

  At this stage in the journey it can feel like scary relief not to be actively dealing with a problem or to be constantly taming powerful emotions. After a season being perpetually “on” guard, “on” the lookout, and having to...

  
• 08.02.2017

  True Betrayal - Step 7

  To this point we have emphasized knowing facts, understanding impact, and processing well over “doing.” A spouse’s sexual sin creates a context of grief and trauma. These affects are often overlooked in the name of “figuring out what to do.”...

  
• 08.02.2017

  True Betrayal - Step 6

  There is another step to take in your personal recovery before your focus shifts primarily towards the possibility of marital restoration (if desired and possible). By this point, the line between personal and marital restoration may feel blurred as one...

  
• 08.02.2017

  True Betrayal - Step 5

  Unpacking your suffering story was painful and exhausting. The temptation is now to want to whatever is “next” just to get you away from the pain. God is more gracious than to drive you that hard and that fast. God...

  
• 08.02.2017

  True Betrayal - Step 4

  Medical professionals who work in the area of chronic pain often differentiate between pain and suffering. Pain is the physical experience (i.e., a pinched nerve) that travels from nerve to nerve and registers in the brain. Pain can be treated...

  
• 08.02.2017

  True Betrayal - Step 3

  It is one thing to experience the impact of your suffering; it is another thing to understand the impact of your suffering. You have been experiencing the impact full force since the revelation of your spouse’s sexual sin and (likely)...

  
• 08.02.2017

  True Betrayal - Step 2

  Chances are your imagination has been running wild. When we don’t know the facts about a bad situation, we have a tendency to fill in the blank with the worst possible details. More painful still, our imaginations have the capacity...

  
• 08.02.2017

  True Betrayal - Step 1

  You were not ready for this… and you should not have to be. Being ready would have meant living in fear, resentment, or numbed denial. Being caught off guard and overwhelmed is the best possible and healthiest response to sexual...

  
• 08.01.2017

  False Love - Step 9

  If the law of God can be summarized in a positive command, then we must end this study talking about how to “run to” God rather than merely how to “run from” sin. Life is not about what we avoid,...

  
• 08.01.2017

  False Love - Step 8

  Take a deep breath. You’re probably thinking, “I’m ready to be done with this study.” If you’re at Step 8, you have come a long way. You have made many sacrifices and opened your life to many more people than...

  
• 08.01.2017

  False Love - Step 7

  As you reach this step the momentum of change has probably already fluctuated several times. Getting started was hard. It felt like an uphill battle. Sin didn’t want to let go of you and you didn’t want to admit it...

  
• 08.01.2017

  False Love - Step 6

  To this point you have admitted, acknowledged, understood, repented, and confessed. Each of the previous steps are vital parts of the change process, but are incomplete to create a lifestyle where purity and honor are defining marks of your life...

  
• 08.01.2017

  False Love - Step 5

  When we looked at the development of sexual sin in Step 1, we said a major threshold was crossed when sexual sin goes public (moving from images or conversations with anonymous people to arousing interaction with a real, known person)....

  
• 08.01.2017

  False Love - Step 4

  You probably feel like your soul has been laid bare in the first three steps. You have looked at yourself, your behaviors, and your life as a whole in ways that you have likely resisted doing for a long time....

  
• 08.01.2017

  False Love - Step 3

  Why? Why? Why?! This is a vexing question. As soon as you say “because…” you run the risk of blame-shifting and we’ve already spoken to the dangers of this. But in the absence of a “because…” it sounds like you should...

  
• 08.01.2017

  False Love - Step 2

  The last chapter was painful. Looking at “what” types of sexual win you struggle with is hard. This chapter will likely be equally uncomfortable as you examine the “extent” of those sins. Unless you acknowledge the breadth and impact of...

  
• 08.01.2017

  False Love - Step 1

  This is miserable. Whether you are picking up this material for yourself or to help a friend, you’ve probably tried to avoid this subject for a while. Although unpleasant, this material is vital. It is vital for you personally if...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Codependency - Step 9

  It would be easy to want this study, like this season of your life, to just be over. But this study, like your life, has at least one more chapter (and several appendices) left. When you put a great deal...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Codependency - Step 8

  New and normal are words that do not belong together. But that is precisely what step eight is all about, establishing a new normal. In steps 2-4, you looked at the things that created an unhealthy normal. In step 5,...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Codependency - Step 7

  One of the biggest challenges in identifying goals for combatting the effects of codependency is to be active without accepting false guilt or distorting how you allocate responsibility for change again. It is easy to think if there is something...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Codependency - Step 6

  When you experience major relational upheaval, it feels like the rest of life should be put on hold. Yet, so often, when we face addictive or abusive challenges in our relationships, life continues “as normal” because no one else knows...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Codependency - Step 5

  It is likely that we have related codependently, not just with other people, but also with God. This is not meant to call into question our assurance of salvation, but to recognize the likelihood that we have: Served God in...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Codependency - Step 4

  At several points in the study you have probably begun to question God, doubt Him, be angry at Him, or wonder if what you think about Him really makes any difference. We’ve brought many painful experiences to mind. When we...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Codependency - Step 3

  After acknowledging the history and realness of our relational unhealthiness, we need to understand the impact of these experiences on our life. Unless we understand the impact, we will be forced to “just try to do better;” which is often...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Codependency - Step 2

  There is nothing “fun” or enjoyable about this step. However, it is a good and needed part of the process. But do not allow these first two statements to cause you to think, “Alright then, let’s get it over with...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Codependency - Step 1

  This may be the most confusing seminar topic ever. Is codependency really a thing? After all, no one can agree on a definition (this is true). Besides, the problem isn’t me; it’s the people who are hurting me or are...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Addiction - Step 9

  If the law of God can be summarized in a positive command, then we must end this study talking about how to “run to” God rather than merely how to “run from” sin. Life is not about what we avoid,...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Addiction - Step 8

  Are you enjoying where you are? Even if you are not “there yet,” can you identify aspects of this part of your journey that make it significantly better than where you’ve been? Unless you can answer “yes” to this question...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Addiction - Step 7

  As you reach this chapter, the momentum of change has probably already fluctuated several times. Getting started was hard. It felt like an uphill battle. Old patterns of life didn’t want to let go of you and you didn’t want...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Addiction - Step 6

  This is probably the chapter you were looking for when you started this study. Thank you for your patience and perseverance in getting to this point. The foundation you’ve laid will help to ensure that your current efforts towards sobriety...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Addiction - Step 5

  You will only be as free as you are honest. Privacy kills change and fuels sin. Transparency kills sin and fuels change. Chances are this step may scare you as much as any step you have taken since the first...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Addiction - Step 4

  You probably feel like your soul has been laid bare in the first three steps. You have looked at yourself, your behaviors, and your life as a whole in ways that you have probably resisted for a long time. In...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Addiction - Step 3

  It is unfortunate that this step will likely not be as satisfying as we would like. We often fall into the trap of thinking that if we understand the “why” better, then the “what” will be easy, or at least...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Addiction - Step 2

  Thank you for continuing on this journey. It takes courage to persevere in something that is difficult. You are to be commended for completing step one and beginning step two. In this step we will examine the breadth and impact...

  
• 08.01.2017

  Overcoming Addiction - Step 1

  Thank you for the courage and humility represented in your willingness to engage this material. Doubtless, if alcohol or drugs have disrupted your life and hurt those you love, many people have tried to force you to change and make...