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Many of us in addiction recovery can affirm that we’ve never let go of anything that didn’t have claw marks on it! But we eventually find that when we become willing to try a new way, our lives begin to change. When we can truly let go and allow a higher power to provide guidance and direction, our lives begin to become amazing. Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on learning how to let go, trust a higher power, and build a wonderful new life.

When we are in early recovery, the idea of a life of peace and joy seems very far away. The good news is that we can get there! But first we must extricate ourselves from the disarray of an undirected life. We can then learn to trust a higher power, thus opening the door to sanity and hope. Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on moving from disarray to genuine peace and joy through coming to believe in a higher power.

Did you ever feel like life would be so much better if you could just have a do-over? You can and you can start over at any time. Our higher power gives us the ability to leave behind that which no longer serves us and move ahead with a clean slate. Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on energizing your life with a fresh start.

For many of us in addiction recovery, life can seem hopeless, especially in the beginning. After all, we chose to deal with our life difficulties with a behavior or substance meant to numb the pain. Take that away and, yes, life can certainly feel hopeless. But we hold a vision of hope, and we find a wonderful new life on the other side of addiction, one that we would not trade for anything. Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on holding a vision for hope and finding our way through the tough times.

If you want what we have, you have to do what we did. 12-step addiction recovery is a program of action based on spiritual principles. The ideas are nice, and anyone can read the steps and see that perhaps they “make sense,” but nothing happens if we don’t take action. Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on putting spiritual principles to work through a program of action, and the amazing changes that take place as a result.

“Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path.” Thus opens the chapter in the Big Book titled “How It Works.” Although the book goes on to describe the 12 steps in some detail, what might it all look like if we zoom out a bit and talk about “how it works” in a broad sense? Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on working a successful 12-step program and the wonderful things that happen when we do.

For some of us new to recovery, the whole “God thing” can be a real barrier. We may be carrying old ideas of God that don’t make sense to us. We may not realize that we don’t need to accept someone else’s understanding of God—we can find our own. In fact, we don’t even have to use the word “God” if we don’t want to! Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on making peace with the whole “God thing” on our own terms.

Many of us in active addiction were not looking for a way out of our way of living. But then things got really bad, and we became willing to find a new path forward. We moved from complacently accepting our addiction to actively seeking to move beyond it. Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on forging a new path forward with hope, commitment, and focus.

In addiction, many of us became down, even perhaps deeply depressed. Now that we’re in recovery, how can we create a new life of vitality and purpose? A life that repairs body and soul and becomes truly satisfying? Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on creating a new life in recovery, a life worth living!

Many of us in addiction recovery are all too familiar with the feeling of fear. Fear of the future, fear of change, fear of pain—you can probably add to the list. The good news is that in recovery, we can learn to manage and transform our fear, moving instead into a life rooted in faith. Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on moving from fear to faith using the power of release.

Many of us enter addiction recovery with an excess of energy, not always knowing what to do with it. We can exhaust ourselves overcommitting, trying to make up for lost time, or just generally running ourselves ragged. This has been called “frantic sobriety.” Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on using our recovery energy to create a life of purpose, right here and right now, one day at a time.

When we first get clean and sober, it is not unusual to feel like the whole world has been turned upside down. It can feel like chaos has taken over our lives! Fortunately, if we are willing to do the work, the recovery journey includes the gift of balance and peace. Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on moving from chaos to peace using the power of order.

When we were in active addiction, sometimes we made bad decisions. Our minds were fogged, but we didn't know it. Our thinking was warped, but it made perfect sense to us! Once we had been on a recovery journey for a while, we began to get our minds back, and our ability to make sound decisions improved. Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on moving from bad decisions to wisdom using the power of will.

Murphy’s Law seems operable in the life of many addicts—whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Beaten into submission by the school of hard knocks, we wonder, Do we have to learn everything the hard way? I don't understand why this always happens! Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on learning to unlock a new way of experiencing life through the spiritual power of understanding.

When we first get into addiction recovery, it can be hard to imagine a life without a drink or a drug. It may seem like our life is over and we'll never have fun again. But nothing could be further from the truth! We soon begin to learn that there is a new way of being in the world that is far better than our old habits. Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on moving from a dull existence to the life you want to live through the spiritual power of imagination.

The "Serenity Prayer" tells us to be open to wisdom so we can discern what is ours to do—and what is not. Many of us in recovery have experienced the results of questionable decisions we have made, sometimes even made repeatedly! Fortunately, we grew tired of living that way. But how do we move away from bad decisions, bad relationships, and bad situations? Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on practical ways we can do just that and experience new levels of joy and freedom in our lives.

How many times have we found ourselves doing the same things repeatedly and expecting different results? We enter recovery and learn a new way of thinking and being in the world—and yet the same old thought habits can still drive us crazy. What’s going on? How do we change this? Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on breaking old patterns of thought and discovering new levels of freedom, happiness, and joy.

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!" This sounds like great advice though many of us begin the recovery journey feeling quite the opposite: stuck and limited. Sometimes even after years of being clean and sober, we can find ourselves feeling aimless. Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on practical ways you can find your true purpose in life and advance confidently toward making it a reality!

When we take action in our lives, powerful and positive changes begin to happen. In fact, action is essential to addiction recovery and spiritual growth. In Scripture, we read, "Faith without works is dead," and many of us have experienced apathy and detachment when we don't move our feet on the recovery path. Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on learning how to take effective action and building a vibrant life.

Am I alone in the universe? I'm supposed to pray, but how, for what, and to whom? I prayed as a child with seemingly no results—what's different now? Join Rev. Dan and Rev. Michelle as they share their experience, strength, and hope on finding effective ways to understand and make conscious contact with God, and seeing concrete, positive results in your life.