The Reverend James M. Lamb, clinical supervisor over substance abuse treatment at Varner Prison in Grady, Arkansas, and at one time associated with San Francisco county jails and San Quentin state prison in California, discovered alcohol and drugs when he was 15. They took control of him for the next 29 years. Lamb, who wrote, “The Power to Change,” a book about addiction and recovery, is writing a second book, “The Revelation of Power,” focusing on biblical tools for recovery along … [Read more...]
X-Rated to G-Rated Lifestyle
An autobiography by Kandi Rose Shepherds Rose Publishing The message on my e-mail on a late August morning read in part, “I’m a former stripper and prostitute who had multiple addictions and once owned my own Strip-O-Gram business in the Chicago area.” It sought my public support for her autobiography, “X-Rated to G-Rated Life Style” and concluded, “whatever your answer, I will take as God’s will.” It was signed “Kandi Rose.” Kandi, who operates a Thrift Store in a small Arkansas town, had … [Read more...]
Exercise and Recovery
The importance that exercise plays in the health of the individual is now universally recognized. Everyone should be incorporating exercise into their life as a regular part of their life routine. As true as this is, there are special reasons why regular exercise helps those in recovery lead a healthier life. Exercise improves a person's outlook on life and raises their sense of well being. This eliminates any desire to reach for a drug to artificially improve how you feel in life. Many people … [Read more...]
Living with an Addict? Chances are You Need Help
On a winter night in 1976, Mary T. decided she would kill her alcoholic husband, when he came home from work. Frustrated by her inability to control his drinking, Mary finally said to herself, “It’s not the drinking, it’s him. He’s the problem, and I need to get rid of him.” Attracted to the image of herself as a widow, she had rejected the divorce option and went straight to murder. As to the means, she eliminated both an ice pick in the neck and running over him in the family car. … [Read more...]
Celebrate Recovery: A Growing Global Ministry Offers Hope
The time has come, and from all over the world the faithful arrive. They fill the cavernous worship center at California’s Saddleback Church, and, murmuring with anticipation, they wait. Then, with hands held high, the percussionist, barely visible behind his drum set, clicks his sticks, and the “World’s Most Dangerous Recovery Band,” through condo-sized speakers, fills the air with sound. Three thousand wildly cheering believers, many of them tattooed and some with pierced ears, noses and … [Read more...]
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