Archives for May 2015

I encourage my sponsees to talk more about their feelings because I’ve learned that feelings and how I deal with them can be a core reason why I fall back into addictive behaviors, which then lead to addictive actions. I’m not sure what I’m feeling today. I felt yesterday was a good day. I felt […]

Last The other night I had the chance to go to a meeting in American Fork where all the sponsors met to talk about the status of ArpSupport.org. It was fun to meet other sponsors and also be able to listen to Mark and others share their feelings about the program and how we can […]

Today is a new day. Today I’m working at submitting my will to Him. Today I’m a bit stressed so I want to write out why and determine what I can do to deal with the stresses in a positive and productive and safe way. First, the stresses:  Stress What’s the next step I can […]

I’m not sure the title will stay the same on this one or not: there may be more (or less) than 5 things I’ve learned about recovery from addiction to pornography, lust, masturbation, etc. But, I’ll start with 5. UPDATE: I changed it to 10! Today is day 467 in recovery from my addiction. It’s […]

Today is a new day. Today I’m trying to submit my will to God early and think about Him throughout the day. Today I started the day out by saying a prayer with Becky. I then got up with the kids and we ate breakfast. The kids actually got up earlier to play a couple […]

I’ve been talking to my sponsees more lately about feelings, mainly because feelings, I’ve found, are at the core of my addictions: how I deal with them, how I cope, and what those feelings cause me to do to other people. The feelings I’ve dealt with in the past include: fear of failure of success […]

The other day I started studying about living in the present. As I studied about the “one day at a time” cliche, I found a few articles at LDS.org that really caught my attention. One is called “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread.” It starts out with this quote: Thoughtful planning and preparation are […]

As I wrote about yesterday, I studied a talk called “Go Forth in Faith” where the speaker shares four principles that helped Nephi in his travels from his home to the Promised Land. They are: Obey the commandments Move forward in faith Live in the present Draw on the strength of others Yesterday I studied […]

I got up earlier today, not to play basketball, but to try to get caught up with a lot of projects that have been pending for some time or that have added up. The first thing I wanted to do though, after I got a few emails out of the way, was study. I went […]

One of the ideas I had when I looked at LDS.org today was to create a fun 5 minute video for Becky. In the video I could do the following: Have fun pictures of each of the kids Have fun music Interview the kids about what they love about Mom What’s one of your most […]