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Caught in the Confession Cycle?

May 22, 2007 By dwolery 1 Comment

The Sin Confess Cycle is bad theology and a faulty approach to effective Christian living. Most ministers are susceptible to it none the less. This cycle goes something like this: sin and confess, sin and confess, sin and confess and on and on in mindless repetitive cadence. Of course John taught us to confess our […]

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Filed Under: Practical Recovery Theology, Resistance, Relapse & More About Help

Why Do I Resist Help?

May 18, 2007 By dwolery Leave a Comment

Seeking help does not come naturally for most of us as members of the clergy. From the independence of the American spirit to the axiomatic resistance of the male ego there are lots of reasons we resist getting help when we struggle with addictions or other human problems. Pastors find seeking help especially difficult.

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Who Do I Tell When?

May 18, 2007 By dwolery 1 Comment

Who do you tell? What should you tell? When should you tell? As a secret life begins to unravel it is difficult to know what to say, when to say it and to whom you should tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

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Filed Under: Hope & Recovery for Pastors, Hope & Recovery for Spouses, Resistance, Relapse & More About Help

What About Relapse?

May 18, 2007 By dwolery Leave a Comment

Recovery is hopeful, life giving and life changing. Relationships can be restored, trust rebuilt and fragmented lives integrated. Recovery works if you work it. There is of course no one who works recovery perfectly. Relapse is a part of the recovery journey. Relapse happens. What do you do when it does?

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Getting Help

May 7, 2007 By dwolery Leave a Comment

It is so unequivocal. Straightforward. Obvious. The answer is not a complicated one at all. What is the question? Why would any one get help? Why would anyone choose to go to a recovery group meeting? If only your spouse knows about it, why go to group? Why would a normal person like me, Dale […]

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Getting a Little Help

May 7, 2007 By dwolery Leave a Comment

We, Dale and Sara Wolery, met, married and lived happily ever after – for one month. Sara, my wife, and I failed even the standards of conventional wisdom which projected that we would “honeymoon” for at least 3 months. It hurt so badly. We agonized out loud about whether or not it had been God’s […]

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Why I chose a “secular” recovery group

May 7, 2007 By dwolery Leave a Comment

by an anonymous pastor in recovery I am a pastor. And I am a sex addict. Like all sex addicts, I resisted any kind of recovery for a long time. I was too ashamed and too afraid. I knew that entering recovery would mean telling someone the truth about my struggles, about my failures and […]

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Filed Under: Hope & Recovery for Pastors, Resistance, Relapse & More About Help

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