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Christ Works Learning Series

Recovering from Addiction

Recorded from the Steady Ground recovery meetings. Six lessons on breaking denial, confession, triggers, community, daily surrender, and what freedom actually looks like a year in. Watch privately, at your own pace.

Andy Soto · 6 lessons · 2 hr 32 min · Recorded meeting series · Steady Ground

Lesson 1 of 6 · 26 min

Telling yourself the truth

Naming the thing plainly, without minimizing it or explaining it away.

Background for this lesson

Addiction survives on management language. It is a phase, it is stress, it is not as bad as what other people do. Every one of those sentences buys the behavior more time, and time is the one thing it needs most.

The Psalms model something different. David describes the physical weight of keeping silent — bones wasting away, strength drained — and then the relief that came the moment he stopped hiding. Naming a thing is not the end of recovery, but nothing begins before it.

This first lesson asks for one honest sentence, said out loud, without the qualifiers attached.

Passages in this lesson

Tap a passage to read it in full, with the rest of the chapter.

Questions to think through

  1. 1What sentence have you been avoiding saying plainly?
  2. 2Which explanation do you reach for most often to keep this manageable?
  3. 3What has this cost you that you have not counted yet?

Your notes

Notes stay on this device for the demonstration.