WELCOME NEWCOMERS!  RECOVERY GROUP INFORMATION

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Celebrate Recovery Small Groups CAN:

• Provide you a safe place to share your experiences, strengths, and hopes

with others that are also going through a Christ-centered recovery.

• Provide you with a leader who has gone through a similar hurt, hang-up

or habit and who will facilitate the group as it focuses on a particular Step

each week. The leader will also follow Celebrate Recovery’s “Small Group

Guidelines,” listed below.

• Provide you with the opportunity to find an Accountability Partner or

a Sponsor.

• Encourage you to attend other recovery meetings held throughout the week.

Celebrate Recovery Small Groups Will NOT:

• Attempt to offer any professional advice. Our leaders are not counselors.

At your request, we can provide you with a list of approved counseling

referrals.

• Allow its members to attempt to “fix” one another.

1. Keep your sharing focused on your own thoughts and feelings. Limit your

sharing to 3–5 minutes.

2. There will be NO cross talk. Cross talk is when two individuals engage in

conversation excluding all others. Each person is free to express his or her

feelings without interruptions.

3. We are here to support one another, not “fix” one another.

4. Anonymity and confidentiality are basic requirements. What is shared in the

group stays in the group. The only exception is when someone threatens to

injure themselves or others.

5. Offensive language has no place in a Christ-centered recovery group.

If you find that you cannot quit drinking or using entirely, even when you

honestly want to, or if you have little control over the amount you consume,

you are probably an alcoholic and/or an addict. If that is the case, you may be

suffering from a problem that only a spiritual solution will conquer.

This group is for those struggling with the compulsion to rescue and take

care of others, have difficulty setting boundaries, or recognizing their own

worth. Members in this group learn to express their own needs and wants in

healthy ways.

This group is for those who have endured past physical, sexual and/or

emotional abuse. Recovery includes healing from the traumas done to us

at sometime in our past, as well as healing from the influence these past

experiences continue to have on our lives.

The family problem of alcoholism made us “co-victims”—those who take

on the characteristics of the alcoholic without necessarily ever taking a drink.

Choosing to recognize and exit the modeled behaviors of alcoholism is the

beginning of recovery for the ACFD.

Support group for those seeking recovery from lust and compulsive sexual

behaviors. This group provides fellowship, is a safe place to share our

struggles, pain, and victories, and helps to establish accountability and mutual

support among the group members throughout the week.

This recovery group’s purpose is to learn a new way of living. The Eating

Disorder group addresses Anorexia and Bulimia. The Food Addiction group

addresses compulsive overeating and those on the diet roller coaster. We have

learned, our tendency is to compulsively try to control food or to be out of

control with food. At your own pace, you will learn to trust, to ask for your

needs to be met, to say “no” when it is appropriate, to express your feelings,

and to hang around when all you want to do is run.

This group deals with Romance and Relationship Addiction only, and provides

a safe place to deal with the depression, isolation, lack of trust, and the

unhealthy use of love and relationships as a means of achieving worth.

Sexual addiction and its causes are largely unknown to most people. This group not

only provides support, but also helps women seek an understanding of their own

personal issues. Codependents can then confront their own denial and behavior

while gaining insight and understanding of their spouse’s sexual addiction.

These recovery groups are for men and women who find that anger is their first

response to problems of any size. The anger may be very evident as rage, or

less obvious in terms of withdrawal and isolation. These groups focus on

managing a God-given emotion in constructive ways.

This group is designed to help you, with God’s power, gain financial freedom

from your debts so you can start managing your finances God’s way. In

addition, the core hurts, habits, and hang-ups that have caused the financial

trouble and stolen the serenity and joy that God has intended, will be overcome.

Is your relationship with God characterized by shame and guilt? Have you

pulled away from healthy relationships because of homosexual issues? If you

relate to these struggles, we welcome you to join us for hope and strength as

we learn how to apply the 8 Recovery Principles to our lives.

Aquí los hombres tienen la oportunidad de compartir sus hábitos, heridas y

complejos en su idioma natal.

If you are new to recovery, we encourage you

to attend “Newcomers 101”Celebrate Recovery®

© 2006 Celebrate Recovery®

Leader has the responsibility to report it to a Celebrate Recovery Ministry Leader.