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What are people saying about Celebrate Recovery, a Christ-centered recovery program? “I didn’t think a recovery program was for me. I was so wrong. The first time I heard, ‘Hurts, habits and hangups...We all have them,’ I knew God was speaking to me, even though I didn’t have a particular habit with a ‘label.’ The hurts in my past have ruled my life, controlled it…until now.” “When I started attending a step study and began to work the steps, I felt so at home. I was in a church group where I was the only woman recovering from my addiction, yet I belonged. I found that all hurts, habits and hang-ups have similar threads that unite us all. And, since we all were looking to Jesus, that made the similarity even stronger. I belonged in the body of Christ.” “I thought I had a relationship with God– I really didn’t. I was acquainted with God. I went to church because that’s what ‘good’ people do. Through the process of recovery, I have learned that the people I thought were perfect have their own struggles. Now that I am not so ashamed of my imperfections, I am able to take the focus off of me and listen to what other people are going through.” “I’ve come to realize that the hurt, hang-up or habit of alcoholism is not a curse, but instead a blessing. The very thing Satan tried to use to destroy me has turned into a vehicle to glorify God.” “CR is kind of like the best church service and AA meeting I’d ever been to rolled into one.”
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