{"id":529,"date":"2010-07-19T11:35:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T16:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgledhill.com\/bronze\/?p=529"},"modified":"2011-04-13T11:19:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T16:19:22","slug":"twrap-002-july-19-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/applications\/twrap-002-july-19-2010","title":{"rendered":"TWRAC 002 (7\/19\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>This Week&#8217;s Recovery Application Challenge<\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Stages of Change in Recovery<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the addiction field, we attempt to help clients to examine where they are at in their &#8220;stage&#8221; of change, or recovery. The &#8220;Stages of Change&#8221; are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Pre-contemplation<\/strong>&#8212;you begin to recognize the more obvious consequences in life\u00a0due to your problem\u00a0(addictive behavior). The problem is that you\u00a0fail to connect the consequences with the behavior. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Contemplation<\/strong>&#8212;as you experience the consequences of your problem (addictive thinking and behavior) you have considered the connection, and have likely concluded that you need help.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Preparation\/Determination<\/strong>&#8212;you have decided that you need to do whatever it might take to recover from your problem. The question is, &#8220;What will it take?&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ACTION<\/strong>&#8212;you are actively participating in <em>doing <\/em>whatever it takes (!) to change\u00a0in order to\u00a0solve your problem (recovery from addictive thinking and behavior).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please read <a title=\"Open Psalm 38 in Bible Gateway\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=psalm%2038&amp;version=NLT\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Psalm 38<\/span><\/a> and <a title=\"Open Psalm 51 in Bible Gateway\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=psalm%2051&amp;version=NLT\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Psalm 51<\/span><\/a>. Also read the FFMP articles,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">King David had problems with addictive thinking and behavior.\u00a0It is clear to me that, upon reading David&#8217;s life story in I and II Samuel that he had sexual addictions and deliberately used his power as king to have his way with a whole bunch of women (wives and concubines). David, in my opinion, was in the Contemplation Stage in Psalm 38, and in the Preparation\/Determination Stage of Change in Psalm 51. What is unfortunate about\u00a0it is that David likely wrote Psalm 38\u00a0later on after writing Psalm 51, which was his initial prayer of repentance after his sin with Bathsheba. David struggled mightily with the battle of recovery and relapse. His\u00a0confession and repentance was sincere before God every single time, which likely led to his deep sense of sorrow and discouragement feeling like he had failed God again and again. Imagine his overwhelming sense of shame. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These questions are intended to challenge you to move from one stage of change\/recovery to the next:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1.\u00a0\u00a0 Even though you&#8217;re probably not a king over anything, how might you feel\u00a0like you&#8217;re in control, or need to be in control?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2.\u00a0\u00a0 How do your &#8220;control issues&#8221; affect you? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3.\u00a0\u00a0 How have you failed to meet expectations set for you, whether by you for yourself or set by others for you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4.\u00a0\u00a0 What do you do to manage feelings of failure and disappointment?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5.\u00a0\u00a0 Describe your feelings when you experience disappointment due to your inability to control stuff?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6.\u00a0\u00a0 How might you identify with David in Psalm 38? Is this your impression of God?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7.\u00a0\u00a0 How might you identify with David in Psalm 51? Is this your impression of God?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">8.\u00a0\u00a0 In terms of your personal recovery, what stage of change\u00a0do you\u00a0feel you are at now?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">9.\u00a0\u00a0 What needs to happen in your heart and mind to get to the next stage of change?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">10. What needs to happen in your activity to move to the next stage of change?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">11.\u00a0 When your recovery is healthy and consistent, what does your life look like?<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=TWRAC+002+%287%2F19%2F10%29\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/applications\/twrap-002-july-19-2010\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Week&#8217;s Recovery Application Challenge Stages of Change in Recovery In the addiction field, we attempt to help clients to examine where they are at in their &#8220;stage&#8221; of change, or recovery. The &#8220;Stages of Change&#8221; are as follows: Pre-contemplation&#8212;you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/applications\/twrap-002-july-19-2010\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications","category-twrac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}