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Who needs a sponsor in recovery?

Who Needs a Sponsor?

January 26, 2019 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

Why can’t you just sponsor yourself?  Let’s think about driving a car.  You could teach yourself to drive.  It is possible, people have done it; but it took time and lots of hard work. Plus, there are blind spots. Most cars are designed to give us the maximum view of our surroundings based on the…

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Boundaries are only things I can control. I want Jerry to get a new cell phone case for his delicate iPhone. Can I set a boundary that he gets a new case? I could, but... could I enforce it?

Setting Boundaries You Will Keep

January 18, 2019 By Tanya Gioia 2 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

You’ll know that an Apple phone is just a computer between 2 pieces of glass right? The minute it slips from your pocket under the car in the parking lot it shatters…unless you have a case. It is frustrating to have to buy one more thing for that crazy expensive iPhone. But a case is…

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Searching and Fearless: Step 4 The Work Begins

July 10, 2018 By Tanya Gioia 1 Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

“Made a  searching and fearless moral inventory of myself.”  Lots of folks stop here.  This means work–lots of work. It is not all bad.  Stopping to look over your life will bring up all of it, the good, bad and the ugly. Courage, my friend, this is where a lot of folks get caught in the…

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The Night My Husband Got Sober

July 7, 2018 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

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How to Handle Your Life: When Your Husband Enters Rehab

June 3, 2018 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

OK, here is the deal.  When your husband enters rehab, he needs space, time, and the ability to process his thoughts while learning to live without his go-to drug of choice.  What are you doing while your husband enters rehab? The Same Thing You Have Always Done Yes, you, the wife, are left at home to…

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Can Forgiveness Make You Stronger?

April 14, 2018 By Tanya Gioia 2 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

“Addiction robs us of the things (and people) we care about the most.” Bill W, Founder Of Alcoholics Anonymous. “Family was foremost to Dad.” (Dewberry, p.18) Three Weeks to Forgiveness Three Weeks to Forgiveness: God’s Redemption in the Dark Places of Addiction delves lovingly into the confusing messages and home life children of alcoholics. This book…

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I am Not My Addiction

I am Not My Addiction: God Says I Am

January 2, 2018 By Tanya Gioia 14 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

I am not my addiction.  I am a child of God. Hello, My name is Tanya and I am a codependent.  Hello, my name is Sally and I am an alcoholic. Phrases so iconic in our culture that anyone can finish the sentence for you. God never design me to be anything but his child.  When…

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Calling An Addiction Intervention Specialist

Calling An Addiction Intervention Specialist

December 26, 2017 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

I just did it one day. I called the Addiction Intervention Specialist. lAfter reading Why Don’t They Just Quit: Hope for Families Struggling with Addiction, I just picked up the phone and called Joe Herzanek. I sat on that ordinary day with no big crisis looming and listened to Joe talk truth to me.  Joe introduced me in his…

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The Year Addiction Stole Christmas

The Year Addiction Stole Christmas

December 23, 2017 By Tanya Gioia 8 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

It all feels like an upside-down fairy tale as I share with you about the year addiction stole Christmas. In a book for children,Beamer’s World, addiction is personified as a “joker” style villain.  Not super scary, he is a creepy and sinister looking man that seems to appear everywhere. Addiction feels like this, lurking in…

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5 Helpful Smartphone Addiction Recovery Apps You Need to Upload

November 20, 2017 By Tanya Gioia 4 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

Smartphone recovery apps to keep you sober?  Wow! someone was thinking!  What do we always, always have with us? Lose your keys, problem, lose your wallet, that’s an issue, lose your phone, Defcon 1 emergency!! Losing your sobriety is the crisis that stops all other life crises.   It is brilliant to pair the two items together….

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