CELEBRATE RECOVERY

Celebrate Recovery (“CR”) is a recovery and support program rooted in a Christ-centered approach to health and freedom from addiction. This is for anyone struggling with hurt, pain, or addiction of any kind. Celebrate Recovery is a safe place to find community and freedom from the issues that are controlling your life.

Thursdays

Dinner @ 6:30PM
Group @ 7:00PM

Our Meetings

Our meetings include a meal ($3.00 donation) at 6:30 PM and fellowship, then worship & teaching starting at 7:00 PM, followed by a time for people to share openly and engage in small group discussions. Some of the specific groups focus on relationship addictions, sexual integrity, chemical dependency, food struggles, as well as other life issues. Please note that men’s and women’s groups always meet separately. Each group is moderated by a mature, experienced leader with anonymity and confidentiality as our core values.

What is CR for?

Codependency is when a person's need for approval or validation from another person allows them to be controlled or manipulated. They are willing to compromise their own values, choices, and behavior at the expense of their personal well-being. Answering yes to any of the questions above might be a trigger for you to ask yourself if you are codependent and relying on someone else for your happiness, satisfaction, value, or self-worth.

Eating disorders involve extreme disturbances in eating behavior. An eating disorder can be characterized by an excessive or compulsive consumption of food and/or getting rid of food, commonly known as binging and purging. It may also be characterized by self-induced starvation and excessive and unhealthy weight loss. We may have believed the lie that our bodies define who we are, and that changing our body image to fit an imagined standard would bring fulfillment, peace, and acceptance into our chaotic lives. We may have jeopardized our relationships, health, jobs, morals, and values to ensure we meet these imagined standards. Many times, food becomes a comfort to ease our pain or fear. Other times, we trade one addiction for another, and food becomes a new addiction to replace another one we have gained sobriety over. Food becomes our "drug of choice.” If you are codependent and relying on someone else for your happiness, satisfaction, value, or self-worth.

Most survivors of physical abuse / sexual abuse / emotional abuse are hesitant to identify themselves as victims of abuse. They feel isolated, depressed, worthless or helpless to change. Ask yourself these questions. Do you feel angry, bitter and rebellious, or have trouble with authority figures? Do you struggle with "all or nothing thinking?" Do you want to have victory through Christ over the life experience of abuse? Recovery is a two-step process for victims of abuse. The first step is healing from the traumas done to us in our past, and the second step is healing from the influence these past experiences continue to have in our present lives.

Sexual addictions often start as an overpowering desire for pleasurable relief. We run from inner pain, loneliness, emptiness, or insecurity that we could not cope with in any other way. At first, it did provide the relief we sought, but the addiction soon takes on a life of its own. Would you like to be free from pornography, one night stands, adultery, and the pain and guilt that come from those choices?

Anger is one of our basic God-given emotions. This emotion can be constructive or destructive. When we lash out in anger, we are ignoring our fear, pain, or another deeper hurt, hang-up, or habit. Other times, we stuff it down and keep it silent, which can be just as damaging. All anger, if allowed to, will continue to destructively influence our behaviors and attitudes, and will eventually erupt from deep within the heart.

"Because of my involvement and commitment to Celebrate Recovery at Riverstone Church I have experienced humility and realized I can’t change alone. With the help of Jesus, and regular involvement with my accountability partners at CR, I’m proud of who I’ve become. Learning how to deal with life’s curve balls instead of hiding from stuff has brought me great happiness and honor."

- Participant

I want to learn more about Celebrate Recovery

Thursdays at 7PM

CELEBRATE RECOVERY

Thursdays Dinner @ 6:30PM Group @ 7:00PM

Our Meetings

What is CR for?

I want to learn more about Celebrate Recovery

Thursdays

Dinner @ 6:30PM
Group @ 7:00PM