Celebrate Recovery at Sutter Community Church

Depression Grief Sexual Integrity Abandonment Low Self Esteem Do one of these define you? Join us every Sunday night at 6:00 pm and see how you can break the sting of your past Sutter Community Church ... 2900 Acacia Ave Sutter, Ca Where Hope Heals

Recently I watched an interview with a famous daughter who lost her mother to suicide. The grieving daughter shared some wise words stating that, There’s mirac...les (in recovery), but there is foot work. I’m in the footwork department, and God is in the results department. I am a grateful believer of Jesus Christ who lives in recovery with CPTSD and struggles with chemical dependency, my name is Meeshia. Growing up with childhood abuse and trauma, I had no proper verbiage to explain the depths of despair I was in (or even why). Dark despair and depression led to suicidal ideation. These thoughts followed me around and kept me living my life in Russian roulette: Good days happy I would be. Hard triggered days life wasn’t worth it. Years of counseling, medicine, and therapy weren’t enough to give me the hope or courage to stay for another day. Walking into Celebrate Recovery, I was desperate for ANYTHING. Anything different than what I had tried before. It was life or death. As that daughter stated, ‘I had to find a way to do the foot work’ or I wasn’t going to make it. In my recovery trigger struggles, I’ve questioned God on whether recovery would ever work for me? Then He reminds me that He is in each step, each principle, and that He is patient enough to help me learn another way. Trauma creates different paths in a person’s brain, and my paths led to hopelessness. However, I now I use the words of the 12-steps to I speak over my ‘mental illness.’ Step 1: I am powerless. Then Steps 2 & 3: God exists and He plans on holding and restoring my mind. God cares about my mental illness. This year I will have 10 years of ‘choosing to stay.’ I know the steps and principles are my footwork and He is in the results. Being honest about trauma and mental illness has been one of the hardest parts of my recovery. Nevertheless, placing God’s words into the darkness gives me hope in the process and enables me to rest knowing that I may not receive a complete healing on this side of eternity. -Meeshia, CR Regional Mental Health Champion, NE #CR #CelebrateRecovery #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #MentalHealthChampions #BreakTheStigma CelebrateRecovery.com