Addiction Recovery Series: Step 3 - Trust in God

Step 3: Trust in God Decide to turn your will and life over to the care of God the Eternal Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. At times life can be tough. Some are born into less than fortunate circumstances. Although we are entitled to a father and mother in this life, not everyone is blessed with a loving, stable or faith promoting home. Throughout our lives we make plans and those plans do not always turn out according to our desires. We may even feel at times as if life is completely stacked against us. Current or past unresolved circumstances can leave us feeling like God does not care or maybe even that He is not there at all. In this video Sharon tells of experiencing feelings like this and how she found it within herself to turn her will and life over to the care of God.


 

For help with LDS Pornography Addiction, visit Bryan Wilde at Advanced Health Clinic

Addiction Recovery Series: Step 2 - Hope

Step 2: Hope 
Come to believe that the power of God can restore you to complete spiritual health.

When we feel guilt there is something deep within us that says, ‘I did something wrong.’ This can be a good internal barometer to guide and help us to become better. But when shame is felt, it brings with it the feeling and belief that, ‘there must be something wrong with me.’ Shame is a companion to addiction and compounds with every failed effort to quit. Eventually, these failed attempts leave a person feeling hopeless and believing that there is no way out. No one sets out to become an addict. It’s not who you are or who you are meant to become. Preston’s Story about Drug Addiction Recovery demonstrates how there is a way back and how our spiritual health can be restored. It is possible to be forgiven and to feel the love of God.


For help with LDS Pornography addiction, please visit us at Advanced Health Clinic

Addiction Recovery Series: Step 1 - Honesty

Step 1: Honesty
Admit that you, of yourself, are powerless to overcome your addictions and that your life has become unmanageable. 

Secrecy perpetuates addiction. Unless the secrets are out and properly confronted, the addiction will continue to thrive. Denial of the problem and its affects prevents a person from seeing the way out. But there is a way to get back to who you are at your core, and it begins with honesty. This video demonstrates how secrecy feeds the addiction, leading us far away from others and ourselves. But honesty and admitting powerlessness are the first steps to confronting and overcoming addiction.





For help with LDS Pornography addiction, please visit us at Advanced Health Clinic

Meditation Music for the Soul

Music soothes the soul. Enjoy this wonderful meditation from our favorite musician, Jerald Simon, of Music Motivation. Jerald composed these songs specifically for the clinic to support the healing work we do. Enjoy!

Landscape of the Mind

Do you or a loved one struggle with addiction? This is a great video The Mormon Channel put out on the brain and how addiction actions affects your mind. 

A Season of Gratitude

November is a time for enjoying family, partaking of wonderful, bounteous meals, and of course, being grateful. It has once been said that "Gratitude is the heart's memory." One way to extend, and even grow, your feelings of gratitude is by keeping a gratitude journal.

Keeping a gratitude journal can improve sleep, reduce anxiety and depression, and even help fight off viral infections.

In one study, researchers from the University of California, Davis, asked participants to write down a few sentences each week. Those who focused on things they were grateful for, as opposed to life's hassles or neutral events, reported fewer illnesses, exercised more and felt more optimistic about their lives.

Beginning a Journal 

To begin, get a blank journal to write in. Then keep a mental tally of things you are grateful for throughout the day. Before you go to sleep, write down some thing you are grateful for. This practice doesn't have to take a lot of time - just once sentence will do. But you will notice, that there are times, when you cannot stop writing about the things you feel most grateful for.

To take your journal a step further, consider including a photo, clipping, quote or verse with your note for the day. 

The joy of a gratitude journal comes down the road, when you are having a rough day. Being able to reflect back on the good things, those moments that touched you enough to take note of them, can carry you through even the hardest of days. So begin today!

Complete this Sentence ....

"Today, I am grateful for ..." Let your journey begin!

Greater Inspiration

This is a technique that I have used successfully to help people get more insight and inspiration from their personal scripture study.  It is written for the LDS population but if you are not LDS you can use the same process with an inspirational book of your choice.

When the Book of Mormon prophet, Nephi asked to see the vision that his father had seen an angel of the Lord appeared to him and instructed him to look.  Then the angel asked, "What do you see?" and finally "What does it mean."  This model can be applied to our personal scripture study.  
 
LOOK:  LOOK  in the scriptures and read a few verses.
 
SEE: Write down what you SEE in a verse or passage that seems to stand out or be significant to you. 

MEANS:  Then write what that verse MEANS for you right now in your personal life or in your parenting.

MORE: Next follow the counsel and example of Elder Scott in his October 2009 General Conference address, "To Acquire Spiritual Guidance" which is quoted below and ask the Lord in your mind if there is MORE that he would have you understand from this scriptural passage.

FEEL:  Now record what you FEEL .  Identify if your feelings are consistent with the feelings that confirm truth as defined by the Lord in D&C 11:12-14 in that they have enlighted your mind and filled your soul with joy.

DO: There may also be impressions regarding what the Lord would have you DO.  President Henry B. Eyring has noted that "…the effect of sincere prayer and of careful scripture study is to always feel an urging to do things."  To Draw Closer To God, Deseret Book Co., Salt Lake City: 1997, p. 151

Elder Richard G. Scott, "To Acquire Spiritual Guidance," October 2009 General Conference

"…strong impressions began to flow to me again. I wrote them down…. I sought a more private location, where I continued to write the feelings that flooded into my mind and heart as faithfully as possible. After each powerful impression was recorded, I pondered the feelings I had received to determine if I had accurately expressed them in writing. As a result, I made a few minor changes to what had been written. Then I studied their meaning and application in my own life.
Subsequently I prayed, reviewing with the Lord what I thought I had been taught by the Spirit. When a feeling of peace came, I thanked Him for the guidance given. I was then impressed to ask, "Was there yet more to be given?" I received further impressions, and the process of writing down the impressions, pondering, and praying for confirmation was repeated. Again I was prompted to ask, "Is there more I should know?" And there was. When that last, most sacred experience was concluded, I had received some of the most precious, specific, personal direction one could hope to obtain in this life. Had I not responded to the first impressions and recorded them, I would not have received the last, most precious guidance.

What I have described is not an isolated experience. It embodies several true principles regarding communication from the Lord to His children here on earth. I believe that you can leave the most precious, personal direction of the Spirit unheard because you do not respond to, record, and apply the first promptings that come to you."