CELEBRATE RECOVERY - ALTON

About this event

Join us "OUTSIDE" as we move to the back parking lot Pavilion for another WOW WEDNESDAY duirng our First Annual JUMPIN JUNE! Every thing begins at 6:00 p.m. with LIVE Music, then a mini testimony, then food, then LIVE Music, then a mini testimony, then food, then LIVE Music, then mini testimony, then LIVE music. Do you get the idea? 

We often begin our CR meetings with, “Welcome to Celebrate Recovery, a safe place to effectively deal with your hurts, hang-ups, and habits through working the Christ Centered 12 Steps and 8 Recovery Principles of Celebrate Recovery!"

 That’s great, but…what do we mean by “hurts, hang-ups, and habits?” 

Generally, a hurt, hang-up, or habit can be anything that keeps you from realizing your full potential as a person. Hurts, hang-ups, and habits can knock you off God’s life plan for you and throw you into a worldly detour headed toward destruction and despair.

HURTS A “hurt” could be classified as any life experience that may have damaged your heart, some offense against you that crippled your ability to deal with the world in a healthy way. Something that may have twisted your view of yourself, God or others. Any life experience that may have damaged your heart. Some common hurts include:

• Abandonment
• Abortion
• Abused as a child, or by a spouse, or another
• Adoption
• Betrayal
• Dysfunctional family (divorce, alcoholism, drug abuse, rage, etc.)
• Grief
• Neglect
• Rape
• Rejection
• Cheating, affairs
• Unforgiveness

 HANG-UPS “Hang-ups” are those roadblocks that keep you from progressing further in God’s plan for your life. They are often shaped by some bent thinking you may have received as a child, or some unhealthy attitude you may have adopted as a means of coping with life’s challenges. Here are some common hang-ups.

• Anger
• Anxiety, worry
• Arrogance
• Body image 
• Bullying, bigotry
• Codependency
• Control 
• Depression
• Fear
• Greed, envy
• Guilt (false) and/or shame
• Lack of self-control
• Lack of trust in God
• Laziness
• Materialism
• People pleasing
• Perfectionism
• Pride
• Procrastination

HABITS Finally, “habits” tend to be unhealthy patterns that often start as a perceived “remedy” for some problem in your life but end up turning into a chronic bad behavior or addiction. Habits are the repeat, default scripts you run to when the going gets tough and continually lead to trouble in your life. Ineffective behaviors that are often used to cope with a hurt. Some common habits are:

• Abusive behavior
• Alcohol
• Bitterness
• Codependency
• Drugs
• Eating disorders
• Gambling
• Gossip
• Lying
• Self-harm
• Sexual Integrity
• Spending problems
• Workaholism
• Pornography addiction