I just wanted to share the LDS addiction recovery website. There is a really good video on there, click here to watch it. When I watched this I was overwhelmed with gratitude to be recovered and living life again. Addictions are such a horrible thing and you can never know exactly how horrible unless you've been trapped in one. Everyday I am SO grateful to be where I am today, sometimes I can't even believe it. I had forgotten what it was like to live, but now I enjoy and appreciate life ten hundred times more! I owe it all to my savior, Jesus Christ who I am so indescribably grateful for. He truly is the way, the light and the life.
The Church's addiction recovery program is really good and its free! They make a spiritually based 12-step manual that you can buy for I believe $5 at any desert book or seagull book and they have tons of meetings going on all the time. To find one in your area click here.
Russell M. Nelson's spiritual prescription for addiction:
Choose to Be Alive
Choose to Believe
Choose to Change
Choose to Be Different
Choose to Exercise
Choose to Be Free
To read this amazing talk click here (He mainly talks about drug addiction but it can be applied to any addiction)
My two tips of the day for recovering from an addiction:
1. Cleave unto all that is good. Instead of dwelling on your struggles focus on cleaving onto LIGHT. Light dispels darkness. They cannot co-exist. LIGHT ALWAYS WINS. Fill your life with light!
2. Instead of trying to overcome your addiction with pure will power, try to create the life where you don't need the addiction anymore! Although it is necessary to white knuckle it at times, that doesn't work for long if that's all you're doing. You have to create a life where you don't need the addiction anymore. Do things differently, find what helps you! Exercise, hobbies, scripture study, going to the temple, praying, relationships, having fun; these are all good examples.
CHOOSE TO HAVE HOPE IN JESUS CHRIST, WITH HIM YOU ARE STRONGER THAN ANY ADDICTION. YOU CAN BE FREE!
-Meg