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The scriptures are such great reminders for us of how life's struggles can be so familiar, but also giving us understanding of how overwhelming those struggles can be at times too. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, will look through the lens of Elijah in First Kings 19, to remind us that God is big enough to speak truthfully and honestly when we feel like we’ve had enough, and to ultimately help us find the right remedy to grow our faith and keep going strong in life.

Sometimes in life we can evaluate the things that God has called us to do in our daily rhythms and get confused about what is "good" versus what is "best." In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, will unpack a very familiar passage in the book of Mark, and explore how being "on mission" can sometimes require being flexible and shifting to be present and engaged with those God puts in our path.

In recovery, there can be some barriers that keep us from walking the path of healing and growth toward change in our life. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, will help us understand why self-awareness and accountability are such essential parts of the healing and growth process, and how a lack of those two things can become a barrier in our life.

Pastor support is so critical to the life of a local CR. There’s something incredibly refreshing when we get to hear the heart and passion of a local pastor for the ministry of Celebrate Recovery. In this episode, listen in as Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, interviews a pastor - Brian Trent - a.k.a. Trent Tribe, at Lighthouse Church in South Carolina. He has an incredible heart for the Lord, Celebrate Recovery, and helping people find freedom from their hurts, hang-ups and habits.

In this part 2 episode, we continue the conversation with Patrick - hearing how God turned everything around in his life as he surrendered to his true, one and only Higher Power, Jesus Christ. There is hope for us when we surrender to Him and trust the process. Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, finishes this great conversation with Patrick to give us all hope on our road to recovery.

What does it look like to live a life in hiding and deception with a mountain full of addictions that feel and become unbearable. Sometimes in our mess it can feel unbearable - as if there’s no hope or light at the end of the tunnel. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, interviews a brother in Christ to hear his hope story of how Jesus met him in his pit to lead him to a new life and purpose.

Sometimes it can be confusing when we get into the conversation around addictions. What’s the difference between a substance or behavioral addiction? Things like Gambling, Shopping, Food, Gaming, Screen Time, and more. What are some things that I need to be aware of and, ultimately, what is the path toward healing? In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, will unpack a healthy conversation to help us in our understanding of the topic around substance, behavioral or process addictions.

In this episode we will continue the conversation on practical steps we can take to walk victoriously - all the while knowing Jesus Christ is the source of our power and strength - one moment at a time. What are some things that we can be thinking about to help us change our mindset from victims to victors? Join Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, as he continues the conversation around this important topic.

It’s no surprise that in this world we will experience pain inflicted on us by others. Many of us have been victimized by significant circumstances caused by other people in our life. The enemy would like nothing more than to convince us that this has become our identity - and even our destiny for the future. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, will unpack and combat that lie - helping us understand that though we may have been victimized, our identity is not as a “victim” but rather a victor! What does it look like to walk victoriously?

Sometimes in life we can see and feel the wreckage inside of and surrounding us. And to those on the outside looking in, it can seem obvious that something needs to change in us, but it still doesn’t happen. In reality, the enemy fuels some unhealthy “reasons” to keep us from taking that step toward healing and recovery - preventing our walking in the new identity of who Christ wants us to become. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, will unpack some reasons that might cause us to avoid the necessary steps toward healing.

Are there differences between “honoring” and “honesty” in the healing process? What are the similarities between these two components and how do they play into our healing journey through Celebrate Recovery? In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, and Andy Petry, Landing Director of CR, have a heart-to-heart conversation around this topic and how it applies to the inventory process and our ultimate healing.

Sometimes we can experience some significant hurt in our life. That hurt feels even worse when it’s from those closest to us. Betrayal, rejection, abandonment, deceit, and more. This can leave significant trauma wounds on our heart and mind that inevitably send us into our own recovery healing process. Celebrate Recovery is not just for the ones that caused the hurt, but for those who have received hurt from others as well. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, will unpack the importance of creating a healthy and safe space for any and all walking through life hurts, hang-ups, and habits.

In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, continues the conversation around healthy habits we can adopt that help foster healthy relationships, effective communication, and overall leadership development with those God has called us to shepherd. These are all great reminders for us to revisit to help sharpen us as we continue to lead in God‘s calling for our life.

As we learned early through our own growth process, forming new habits in life doesn’t only apply to our personal recovery. Healthy practices and habits that foster healthy relationships & effective leadership for others are essential for us to adopt for our own leadership development. So that we don't waste the hurts from our past, we need to remind ourselves of some helpful habits to follow as we allow God to use us. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, unpacks some leadership habits that we can lean into that will help make us more effective as leaders in ministry.

The opioid epidemic is destroying individuals, families, churches, and communities as a whole. How do we face this as a forever family to bring hope to the hurting? In this podcast we hear Lou's personal testimony of how God used a very hard thing with opiate addiction to become a catalyst to help other people understand and find healing and hope from opioid addiction. Listen in as Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, has a great conversation with Lou on this important topic.

There’s so much hope that can be found in hearing evidence expressed of Jesus and His miracles in our life. Listening to life-change in the life of another brother or sister in Christ can be oxygen for our soul. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, interviews Rebecka as she unpacks her story of abuse, immense loss and her path toward healing and forgiveness.

Continuing the conversation around depression, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, gives practical ideas to provoke new thoughts when we are struggling with depression - helping us interrupt the thought process we find ourselves stuck in while avoiding getting stuck in isolation with this struggle.

Depression is one of those topics that gets a little bit tricky and hard to talk about in church circles. In our efforts to keep people from falling into a deep pit, sometimes we say and do things that can actually be more harmful than good to the person struggling with depression. What’s my part in this? And if I am the one struggling, what are some things that I can do to struggle well in this process? In this first of two episodes, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, has an important conversation around the mental health struggle of depression to help us learn how to grow through it and process it in healthy ways.

We pick up with our discussion with Jeni Baker, Co-Executive Global Director of Celebrate Recovery, to look at how her personal relationships - starting with her own marriage and her kids - were impacted by anger, and how it affected her recovery and growth process. Listen in with Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, as he continues this part-two conversation with Jeni.

As we continue the conversation around the misunderstood emotion of anger, we invite guest, Jeni Baker, Co-Executive Global Director of Celebrate Recovery, to discuss her interactions and experiences around anger. Listen in as Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, and Jeni unpack this important topic through this two-part podcast around anger and the signals that it gives that deserve our attention.

It’s easy to fall into the comparison bug when thinking about our story and looking at our neighbor’s story. What if my story isn’t messy enough? What if my story is too messy? Is there value in my story if it’s not the big, dramatic kind of story? How does this process of Celebrate Recovery help me face my story, honor it, and not allow the enemy to speak self-contempt - regardless of how big or small it may be perceived?Listen as Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, unpacks the value of our personal story. If it’s big to us, it’s big to God!

Doing the Principle 4 “Spiritual Inventory” can look like a ridiculous thing to accomplish from the outside looking in. Why would we want to spend time looking at our past? Could it be that this process of examining our past hurts and fully grieving and lamenting that pain leads to walking in the fullness of hope and joy? Listen in as Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, unpacks this important topic to help us understand the value of facing, grieving, and feeling our pain in the presence of Jesus and a safe community.

Can you imagine going to the doctor with your illness, and in response to that the doctor keeps denying your symptoms saying, “Everything‘s fine.” But in your heart of hearts, you know everything is not fine. You would probably find a new doctor. The Great Physician, Jesus Christ, never denies our pain and He asks us to not deny it either. If we will take time to understand what denial is and bring that pain out into the open and into the light, God can do amazing things. Listen in as Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, unpacks this groundbreaking and life-changing principle of facing our denial.

Anger can be one of the most misunderstood emotions of all that we carry as believers in Christ. But anger is just a rise against an injustice. So how do we walk and struggle well when anger comes online? What are some practical things that we can learn and lean into to help us move forward with health when the signal of anger comes up? Listen in as Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, speaks with Sarah as she shares her own experience and how this played out in her recovery story.

One of the greatest blessings about the ministry of Celebrate Recovery is that whether we come from one country or another, we all speak the same language, and that language is "hurt." Pain is a language that we all can understand and feel at the very core of our heart. How we deal with that pain is critical to our growth process. On this week’s episode listen in as Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, interviews a dear brother, Jose. He shares a part of his life-change story in coming into Celebrate Recovery.

In this episode we will continue with Part 2 of the conversation on establishing the value of our presence versus our intellect in sitting with someone and listening to their inventory during the fifth step process. How do we stay present and attuned to the person who is courageously opening their heart and life so that we can be a part of the healing process that Jesus and the individual has invited us into? Listen in as Rodney Holmstrom continues the conversation.

One of the greatest gifts we have in recovery is being able to sit with someone who enters into the scary parts of their story. This may even be the first time they are sharing and they have decided to share with us. This process can be one of the biggest healing components of the recovery process through the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit. But, as we listen, how do we stay out of our head and not overthink this? How do we understand the difference between skill versus presence in the listening end of the fifth step? Listen in as Rodney Holmstrom unpacks this topic in Part 1 of the conversation.

On this podcast, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, continues his interview with two brothers in Christ - Nick and Ryan - in part 2 of their discussion about the opioid epidemic. The numbers are staggering when it comes to this epidemic's impact on individuals, families, and communities across the globe. What are the resources that are available to us to help people as they face this seemingly insurmountable mountain of struggle? Listen as we get our arms around this topic and point people to Jesus for healing.

The numbers are staggering when it comes to the opioid epidemic and how it’s impacting individuals, families, and communities across the globe. How do we get our arms around this epidemic and point people to Jesus for healing? What are the resources available to us to help people as they face this seemingly insurmountable mountain of struggle? On this podcast, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, interviews two brothers in Christ - Nick and Ryan - to talk about this important subject.

It can seem a little bit awkward when we think about the idea of connecting with "self." It might seem like the last person I want to connect with in my struggles is the very person that’s in the middle of the struggle. But learning how to stop and stay within myself and not exit my "self" in the midst of trials and struggles is critical to staying in a healthy space in recovery. In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, visits with Andy Petry, Landing Director of Celebrate Recovery, to discuss this important topic to help keep us on the healthy road to recovery.

What happens when we refuse to face the hurts and trauma from our past? Sometimes, wherever we sit in our brokenness can keep us stuck there and even hidden underneath the table in a place of darkness. On this week's podcast, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, will unpack parts of his story and how God met him underneath the dark table of his life to ultimately invite him into a new space called "healing and recovery."

There are some aspects of our life that if we really think about it sound and seem repulsive. What are some things that represent your version of “toilet water” in your mind, heart and body? What do we need to be paying attention to to keep us from consuming the nasty old “toilet water” that tried to steal the fruit from our life?In this podcast Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of CR, will remind us of some of the ways the enemy deceives us in our place of weakness with unaddressed lies and temptations.

What do you think of when you hear the word relapse? It's easy to box it into a very defined picture but what if the act of relapse is not the only thing we need to be focusing on? What if there are some questions that we can be asking ourselves to help prevent the physical act of relapse or lapsing into old tendencies, mentally or emotionally? On this podcast join Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery as he interviews a special guest and friend, Buck on this important topic.

The practice of taking a daily inventory can feel arduous and laborious at times if we forget the value behind this practice. What makes this so valuable?In this podcast, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery invites a guest on to help unpack this important discipline that brings incredible value to our life and recovery. Listen into this conversation and be blessed.

In celebrate recovery we tend to find our own language that we use to help us stay on the road to recovery. What does it mean to “keep coming back“ in this podcast, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of celebrate recovery has a great conversation with Mac Owen, Global Director of Celebrate Recovery to talk about the benefits and the reasons behind the practice of “keep coming back”.

What if you received an invitation from your girlfriend to attend celebrate recovery just two months into your relationship? Would that get you pumped up and excited? Would you turn and run? Scott leaned into the invitation and it changed his life. In this week’s episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery, interviews a brother in Christ who walked into recovery broken and lost and found healing and strength as he worked the recovery principles. Listen in and be inspired from this life change testimony.

Life change story testimonies can be a lifeline for us in our recovery journey. Have you ever listened to a testimony and wondered to yourself “how is this even possible?“ God does miraculous things through CR. Today’s testimony with John Paul is one of those miraculous stories that will bless your heart significantly. Listen in as Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery interviews a fellow struggler in the recovery process as he shares his story of hope.

During the holidays especially we can find ourselves distracted, busy and overwhelmed by the overall season. How do we stay connected with God in the midst of the chaos happening around us? What does it look like to practically connect with God on a regular basis so that we can stay in a healthy space? Listen in as Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery visits with a guest on this important topic.

In recovery language we often use the phrase live one day at a time“. But what does that really mean? Is it more than just a catchy cliché that we say to each other as we walk through the recovery principles? In this episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of celebrate recovery unpacks what it practically looks like to live one day at a time and how we can apply that to our life in bite-size chunks.

In this week’s podcast Rodney Holmstrom continues the conversation with Matt in unpacking what life change and healing looks like in his life. How did Matt face the hurts, core beliefs, the hang-ups that kept him stuck, and even broken and compulsive habits that were separating him from God and others? Listen to the conclusion of this incredible life change story and how Matt found healing through celebrate recovery as he ran to Jesus with all of it.

Pain has a way of getting our attention and can be the catalyst toward getting help and working on our recovery. What does it look like when we have event after event in our life that impacts us in significant ways? Join Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery as he interviews Matt in an incredible life change story.

One of the greatest hopes we find in celebrate recovery is when we see evidence of Jesus and his life change power in a fellow strugglers life. This week, join Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of CR as he interviews Domingo to to hear a snippet of his testimony. They unpack what his life looked like before recovery, during recovery, and where God has him now having worked the principles of celebrate recovery.

Continuing the conversation around worship we unpack the heart behind worship and singing in the midst of our pain, as we grow through the pain, and ultimately celebrating healing from our pain. Join Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of celebrate recovery as he continues the conversation with part 2 on why we worship with a local worship pastor of celebrate recovery, Michael.

One of the core values in Celebrate Recovery is worship. Worship is incorporated into our general meeting night. But what is the point of worship? Why do we worship and not just go right to the open share small groups? Is it really needed? What do the Scriptures tell us about this important value of worship and how it aids the healing process in celebrate recovery? Listen in as Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery interviews a local worship pastor of Celebrate Recovery, Michael around this important topic of worship.

Can I find healing from abandonment and rejection from my past? Do you ever get over something like that? If not, how does one grow through that?This week Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery walks us through how to heal and grow through this process as we get honest and real about the past toward a better future.

Sometimes we can buy it into the false narrative that pressing forward means driving. But what does it look like to walk in trust and his truth toward lasting recovery? Listen in as Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery unpacks this topic to help equip us so that we can keep our eyes moving forward in Christ.

What in the world is codependency and how do I know if I struggle with it? Maybe you’re in a position where many people are telling you that you are a codependent, and you have no idea what they’re talking about. On this week’s episode, Rodney Holmstrom, Global Field Director of Celebrate Recovery interviews Tiffany, who has walked through the recovery area of codependency. She shares with us what recovery looks like in her life in this complex area of struggles. Find clarity and encouragement as you listen to this great life change story and interview around codependency.

Continuing through this series we have been walking through a proactive plan to keep us from ending up in the wrong neighborhoods, with the wrong people, doing the wrong things that spiral us out in our area of recovery. In this podcast we will begin the conversation on what it looks like to develop a reactive plan when temptation creeps in to keep us from going to those bad spaces. Listen in as Rodney Holmstrom, global field Director of celebrate recovery tackles this topic.

As we continue this series on developing an escape plan we wanted to unpack some practicals of those things that we need to be removing from our life but just as important, what we will be adding to our life. It’s not just what would we take out of our life but what we put into it that can be beneficial as were defining our own healthy space in recovery. Listen in as Rodney Holmstrom, global field Director of celebrate recovery continues the conversation on this important topic.

Boundaries are a critical part of learning to apply to our life to put around ourselves to keep us in healthy spaces as we work the recovery principles. In this part two episode on boundaries, Rodney Holmstrom and Andy Petry will unpack the topic of establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries in our recovery.