Celebrate Recovery

A Christ-Centered Recovery Program

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Love and Relationship Addiction

The Problem

This group provides a safe place to deal with the depression, isolation, lack of trust, and the unhealthy use of love and relationships as means of achieving worth, that are characteristic of Romance and Relationship Addictions.

 Addicted to “Love” characteristics are:

  • Lack of nurturing and attention when young
  • Feeling isolated, detached from parents and family
  • Outer facade of “having it all together” to hide internal disintegration
  • Mistake intensity for intimacy
  • Hidden pain
  • Seek to avoid rejection and abandonment at all cost
  • Afraid to trust anyone in a relationship
  • Inner rage over lack of nurturing, early abandonment
  • Depressed
  • Highly manipulative and controlling of others
  • Perceive attraction, attachment, and sex as basic human needs, as with food and water
  • Sense of worthlessness
  • Escalating tolerance for high-risk behavior
  • Intense need to control self, others, and circumstances
  • Presence of other addictive or compulsive problems
  • Using others alter mood or relieve pain
  • Continual questioning of values and lifestyle
  • Driven, desperate, frantic personality
  • Existence of secret “double life”
  • Refusal to acknowledge existence of problem
  • Defining out-of-control behavior as normal
  • Defining “wants” as “needs”

 The Solution

The goal of recovery is to achieve and maintain sobriety. In most addictions, sobriety can be defined simply by ceasing the unhealthy behaviors. Stopping and staying stopped are the goals. For most types of problems, the slogan “just say no” is appropriate.

Staying sober is more complicated with people addictions. The aim of recovery cannot be the complete avoidance of all forms of romance and relationships. It is similar to the challenge faced by people addicted to overeating; they cannot simply give up food. Rather, they must learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy eating. They must eliminate the unhealthy while promoting the healthy behavior. In the same way, for those addicted to love, the goal of recovery is not to become a hermit living in the mountains. The goal is to foster healthy relationships and eliminate unhealthy ones.

Asking the following questions can help you determine if a particular behavior will contribute to a healthy relationship or lead to addictive behavior.

  1. Will I later have to deny that I did it?
  2. Is it self-centered?
  3. Is it abusive to myself or to others?
  4. Is it inconsistent with my values?
  5. Would I refuse to do it if Christ were standing here with me?
  6. Is it an action without an underlying commitment?
  7. Will I feel better or worse about myself for having done it?
  8. Will someone else feel worse for my having done it?
  9. Is this a waste of my time or the time of others?
  10. Am I doing this to escape painful feelings of reality?

A yes to any of these questions should be a “red flag” that the behavior being considered may be unhealthy. When romance and relationships proceed with these types of dynamics, they are likely to be dysfunctional and addictive.

Sobriety means establishing and maintaining a balanced lifestyle. At the same time, staying sober is always more than the mere presence or absence of certain behaviors. Sobriety is more than just “not doing” certain things. It involves personal growth. It is not what we avoid, but what we grow toward, that makes sobriety meaningful. As we have seen, growth must occur in several areas of our lives. We must look to our physical health. We must be concerned for our emotional, social, and mental welfare. Spiritual growth must be the foundational block, upon which, all other growth is built and sustained. Balance is the key. Romance and relationships have been the dominant factors in the life of one addicted to love. Recovery is the time for these relationships to find their rightful and healthy place as a part of the whole person, not as tyrants which control and consume a person.

Recovery is meant to be far more than survival or another coping strategy. Recovery is to lead to an intimate relationship with Christ, and to a re-birth of the heart. The goal is for the healing of a broken and empty heart and the filling of that heart with a love for God, for others and for yourself. Life’s central truth is that GOD LOVES US. Christ sacrificed himself because of His love for us. His sacrifice made it possible for us to be women who love. Entering into God’s love, making it our own, and being able to share it with others—that is the goal of recovery.

Meeting Days, Times & Locations

BRIGHT LIGHT FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH
Beginning 09.11.2022
Sundays, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Childcare available
11200 S H 30
College Station, TX 77845
Church Phone: 979-324-8277
brightlightfwb@gmail.com
MINISTRY LEADERS
Gabe Montez: 714-422-9829
pastorgabeblc@gmail.com
Erika Montez
pfocbp@icloud.com


CONNECTING POINT CHURCH
CPC CR is moving to MONDAY NIGHTS!
LAST FRIDAY MEETING 09.30.2022
FIRST MONDAY MEETING 10.03.2022
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
410 Harvey Rd
College Station, TX 77845
Church Phone: 979-693-5555
MINISTRY LEADERS
Carol Carey: 979-492-5425
tolerunner@yahoo.com
Eugene Lansford: 979-204-8595
eugenelansford@gmail.com


GRACE BIBLE CHURCH
SOUTHWOOD CAMPUS
Tuesdays, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
1901 S. Harvey Mitchell Pkwy
College Station, TX 77840
Church Phone: 979-695-2000
CR MINISTRY LEADERS
Diane Davis: 979-575-3130
diane.davis1950@yahoo.com
Stuart Young: 979-777-1456
stuartyounghospice@yahoo.com


SAVE OUR STREETS MINISTRIES
Wednesdays, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Childcare available
1700 Grosebeck St
Bryan, TX 77803
cratsaveourstreets@gmail.com
MINISTRY LEADERS:
Cindy Trujillio: 979-422-0867
cindytrujillo71@gmail.com
Craig Miller: 979-777-7418
sigmacoog@yahoo.com


HOLY INNOCENTS
EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Thursdays, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
600 N McIver St
Madisonville, TX 77864
Church Phone: 936-348-2034
MINISTRY LEADERS
Gordon Plumlee: 936-348-1785
gordonplumlee@hotmail.com
Cat Plumlee: 936-348-0884

Hurts, Habits, and Hang-ups

  • Adult Children of Family Dysfunction
  • Anger
  • Chemical Dependency
  • Codependency
  • Codependent Women in a Relationship With a Sexually Addicted Man
  • Eating Disorders
  • Food Addiction
  • Gambling Addiction
  • Love and Relationship Addiction
  • Mental Health
  • Physical, Sexual, and Emotional Abuse For Women
  • Self Injury
  • Sexual Addiction
  • Veterans – Combat Related Post-Traumatic Stress
  • Veterans – Military Sexual Trauma
  • Veterans – Spouses and Family Transition

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28 Jun 2021

We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. James 5:16a NIV

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Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord. Lamentations 3:40 NIV

We have to acknowledge our baggage in order to let it go. Otherwise, we'll keep lugging around burdens God never intended us to carry.

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The Lord...visits the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation. Exodus 34:7

But Jesus Christ has the power to break EVERY chain, including the cycle of generational sin!!

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Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship. Romans 12:1 NIV

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For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. Philippians 2:13 NIV

When we believe God can fix what we have been unable to, we find hope like never before.

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