Breaking Free

God wants you to overcome your destructive behaviors. Encouragement can help.

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How Can We Overcome an Addiction?

How can you get control of an urge or addiction? When I find out, I'll let you know!
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Understanding the Self-Perceptions of Addicts

I have been in the Church of God for 17 years. I entered the church as an addict. I became an addict when I was 17 years old, although the pattern for addiction was set up in me long before...
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God is Enabling Me to Overcome my Bad Habits

There I go—I've done it again. In spite of my best intentions, I have failed yet again.
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You Don't Need to Be Helpless With Addictions

This article is an interview with an addict, who really never had much of a chance to avoid becoming an addict—a triple addict, actually. But he is strongly motivated now to try to help others avoid the mistakes he has...
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Anger Addiction

Can we be addicted to an emotion or a feeling? Let's look at the emotion of anger.
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Healing from the Trauma of Growing Up with Abusive Parents

This begins when I was yet unborn. It is a short overview of a life of rejection, trouble, tragedy, pain and victory.
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My Healing from Addictions after Growing Up Under Awful Verbal Abuse

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me!