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It’s one of the biggest mysteries in this healing process, but pain that is hidden grows and becomes destructive. But, the healing and transformation process happens when we allow it to be witnessed by God and other safe people. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, global field Director of celebrate recovery, will walk us through the process of allowing our pain to no longer be hidden, but witnessed by the body of Christ.

We're continuing of the conversation of building a proactive plan when the enemy tries to punch us in the mouth and the storms of life try to take us out. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field, Director of celebrate recovery, will wrap up the conversation of some proactive steps that we can take and even lean into what we might do when we do have setbacks toward the next right choices to take after we fall down.

Sometimes in the recovery journey, we can become complacent and comfortable and get blindsided, by the punches in the mouth that life can send us. It's an important conversation to have to help us understand ways that we can keep on the road to recovery and health. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, will help us lean into some important reminders to keep us on the road recovery when life's storms come our way.

One of the enemies schemes... to convince us that we shouldn't have to ask for help and it's not OK to be "not OK."
However, in celebrate recovery, whether you're in day 1 or 10,001 there are always days that we are going to need connection with another human being. Every day we need connection with the Father, and we are wired for connection with each other. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, global field director of celebrate recovery, will unpack this important topic to help us understand that admitting the need is not weakness while holding space and understanding that we don't want to embrace hopelessness either. God meets us in pain so that we don't have to stay there. What is the value of inviting other people into our pain and what does the scripture say about it?

One of the biggest myths in recovery that we learn is that the enemy will convince us to avoid our pain at all costs. If we lean into and face our pain, it will only make it worse. That is a complete lie. There's an old quote that reads, "at some point protecting our pain can become protecting the prison it built".
What are some things to think about and the costs to weigh in on in avoiding our wounds in our life? In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, global field director of celebrate recovery, will lean into this important question and what it looks like to not only acknowledge our wounds, but heal from our wounds and walk out of the prison that our years of avoiding our pain has built.

Walking this road to recovery requires having people around us. We can't face our brokenness without God and others. But sometimes the relationships on earth can get messy and dysfunctional and even become complex and tricky. What do we do when they become difficult and messy and even drama filled and chaotic? In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field, Director of celebrate recovery, will unpack the importance of how to maintain peace amidst the chaotic relationships happening around us.

Whether your day, one or day 10,001 of your recovery journey, we all will have days where we feel lost, discouraged, and even alone based on things that are happening around us and the inside of us. What are the steps toward Hope and healing when we're in this desperate place? In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field, Director of celebrate recovery, will unpack some important reminders for us to think about in the midst of our struggle to help point us toward hope and keep us on the path, keeping our eyes on Jesus through the process.

We are continuing a part two conversation around answering some hard questions from our great leaders on a local level of celebrate recovery. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field, Director of celebrate recovery, will wrap up a series of questions from the west gathering in CA that need answering to help build confidence in our great leaders on a local level.

Being a leader and celebrate recovery can be lonely at times and questions can come up that we need some extra help to help bring clarity. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field, Director of celebrate recovery, will answer some questions from Ministry leaders across the US, that were asked at the west gathering in California. The goal is to help bring clarity to some questions to help sharpen the saw of our great leaders on the local level.

What is the overall goal of vulnerability and is it the end goal? In this part two episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, will finish up this topic on understanding vulnerability and staying in a healthy space as we share through a corporate, one on one testimony and/or small group setting.
What are some practical examples of healthy vulnerability in recovery?

We've all experienced struggles around oversharing if we've been in ministry any length of time. What do we do with the scenarios? Where does over sharing take place and become unhealthy? Honesty with intention vs information for attention. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, unpacks a part one of a two-part series on understanding, vulnerability, and where we can get stuck with some practical examples.

What does healthy vulnerability and unhealthy vulnerability look like?

One of the powerful things about principle seven of celebrate recovery is that we have an opportunity to sit with the Father and allow Him, the teacher to speak. What if we slowed down long enough to ask what He is saying to us and what He is teaching us about ourselves and others and how we move forward as believers in Jesus Christ? In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of celebrate recovery, walks us through an exercise that he and his wife practice together to allow God's word to marinate and saturate their hearts toward change.

Why do we worship and celebrate recovery? It's a question that's important for us to answer so that we understand that it's not just something we do apart from recovery but it's something that is very much setting the table and a part of the recovery process. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of celebrate recovery, will unpack his personal experiences around a recent celebrate recovery worship meeting, and some takeaways that he learned about the value of worship in a celebrate recovery meeting. Most of all, why it's more important than we realize.

Sometimes boundaries can be misinterpreted as a means to reject, control, or even push people away as a sense or source of punishment. But what is the heart behind boundaries? What was God's design in scriptures that we can learn from the value and importance of boundaries. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of celebrate recovery, discusses boundaries and the heart behind them and what our posture should be as we practice boundaries with the people around us in Ministry and our recovery.

It's a beautiful prayer that we read every single week at Celebrate Recovery. This prayer, written by Reinhold Niebuhr, is more than just a rote group of words that we recite for convenience to close out our CR services and small groups. No, these are deeper words with a great meaning to help us in our day-to-day recovery interactions. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, recites the prayer and gives some thoughts around the meaning for some central phrases in this important prayer.

So we've been talking about the things to be aware of in the language around choices that we make, and the identity pieces connected to our choices, but what are some practical ways and things that we can be doing to combat the challenges against our identity as we take ownership, responsibility and accept God's invitation to honesty and ownership to face our choices while sustaining and maintaining our true identity in Christ? In this part 2 episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, will walk us through practical steps to consider and how we change how we talk to ourselves in the midst of mistakes and challenges in life.

Understanding the difference between the things and choices that we've made compared to who we are in Christ is such an essential part to moving from the pit of despair and shame to the mountain top of life and grace. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field, Director of Celebrate Recovery, unpacked some practical things to remember and how we can get stuck in the identity piece when we think about the choices that we've made.

Triggers, triggers, triggers. In celebrate recovery our goal is not to eliminate triggers from someone's life, but to help prepare someone to face them with health, courage, and strength. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, wraps up the conversation around triggers with some practical tools to help us face those with courage and strength. He gives us some tools and ways that will enable us to stay on a healthy road to recovery and not live in a place of condemnation, but of conviction that leads to healing and growth.

Sometimes when we think about triggers, there's some big and obvious triggers that we are well aware of. But sometimes there's those triggers that seem to come out of nowhere, whether it's a dream, memory, old song, Relationship conversation and more. What do we do when these triggers hit us out of left field?
In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, unpacks this important topic and gives us some practical tools to help us face these triggers and even help us to maintain a healthy posture and lens toward the triggers to learn and grow through them to stay on the road to recovery.

We love that this ministry puts us on a path and trajectory with other fellow strugglers in life that we call forever family. Sitting down and having heart-to-heart conversations is such a gift and, in this episode, that gift was so appreciated. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, sits down with Noah Whitaker, celebrate recovery representative of North Dakota, to have a conversation around recovery and specifically step 10 and how we can serve in a healthy posture and not out of codependency. They also discuss why and how celebrate recovery is so vital for the entire family and the impact on Noah's life growing up in recovery.