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What to Expect

Celebrate Recovery is a place to find healing and freedom from your hurts, hang-ups and habits and to grow in your relationship with Jesus Christ (or to gain a relationship with Jesus if you do not have one yet).

In life we’ve all experienced hurts and if we don’t authentically walk through them with Jesus, we can develop hang-ups and those hang-ups can lead to destructive habits.

  • Hurts – include such things as verbal, emotional or sexual abuse, abandonment, adult child of family dysfunction (where home caused hurt in your life), divorce and other relationship issues, other damaging experiences.
  • Hang-ups – beliefs we’ve developed about ourselves or about others as a result of the hurt in our lives. Examples include such things as anger, anxiety, depression, fear, bitterness, resentment, a difficult time trusting people, believing that you are not good enough or that you will never measure up, recurring negative thoughts you just can’t get to stop, or other unhealthy attitudes or thought patterns.
  • Habits – often develop as coping mechanisms that we use to deal with the hurt in our lives. Examples – drug or alcohol addiction, food or body issues, anger issues, codependency, love and relationship addiction, control issues, sexual addiction, gambling, shopping addiction, or other unhealthy coping behaviours.

Celebrate Recovery isn’t just for habits, its for hurts and hang-ups too. We’ve all been hurt in our lives and we’ve all hurt someone else in our life which is why we say that Celebrate Recovery is for everyone and for anyone.

Interestingly, only about one-third of the people who attend Celebrate Recovery come to deal with chemical addiction – drugs, alcohol; the rest come for healing from hurts, hang-ups and habits.

So, if anything on the lists of hurts, hang-ups or habits lists resonated with you, and no matter where you might see yourself in the cycle of hurts, hang-ups or habits, Celebrate Recovery is a place where you can find freedom and healing.

Celebrate Recovery uses eight recovery principles that are based on the words of Jesus found in the beatitudes to walk us through the recovery process. We also use the Christ centered twelve steps which are familiar to anyone who has traditional recovery experience.