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How to Continue Daily Serenity/Step 10

September 18, 2018 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

Is the goal for your life daily serenity–living in peace with yourself and others.  Facing the world with the understanding that failure and mistakes are part of the human experience. How we choose to handle mistakes and failures in our lives develops our character.  Does a problem, failure or mistake keep us from behaving with:…

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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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How to Pray for your Addict Husband

February 3, 2018 By Tanya Gioia 41 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

Pray! Pray for my addict husband I screamed at God.  He is my enemy!  He is responsible for all this mess! Walking the dog in the early morning while my husband and my young boys slept, I talked or more often yelled at God.   Exhausted, I struggled to hold it together during every day…

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