Addiction and Recovery Archives

3 Ways to Pray for Someone in Recovery

By Rick Hamlin3 min read

How to take it one day at a time with prayer.

A mysterious little girl holding a balloon flower.

A Mysterious Sign from God Helped Her Deal with Addiction

By Dawn Burns4 min read

She thought her addiction was hopeless until this she received a token from a young girl.

5 Things I Wish People Knew About Opioid Dependency

By Roberta Messner7 min read

Roberta Messner had been using prescription opioids to manage her pain for years. Here’s what she learned from opioid withdrawal.

Comic Michael Colyar on How His Mother Inspired Him to Get Sober

Comedian Michael Colyar, who spent 23 years addicted to crack cocaine, shares how this mother’s faith—in God and in Michael—inspired him to finally achieve sobriety.

In Recovery for His Addiction, He Reconciled with His Father

By Grant Phillips7 min read

After the childhood he had, he vowed never to talk to his father again and he almost didn’t.

Erin and her husband, Heath. “He said my decision saved his life.”

Her Husband Was Addicted to Meth. Could She Find the Strength to Leave?

By Erin Leonhardt9 min read

Al-Anon helped her to recognize that she was enabling her husband’s destructive behavior, but did she have the resolve to leave him—even for his own good?

A concerned father discusses her addiction with his daughter

Are You Helping or Enabling Addiction? How to Tell the Difference

By Anita Bont, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation2 min read

A supervisor with Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation explains the concept of enabling someone with a substance use disorder and why you may be hindering your loved one’s recovery, not helping.

A Horse Named Pistol Helped Her Heal

By Lisa Shaver8 min read

An incurable condition known as RSD had left her unable to do the thing she loved most in life: Ride a horse. But a quarter horse with its own health issues proved a perfect match.

She Followed God’s Voice to Battle Addiction

By Deborah Voigt8 min read

For years this opera singer’s brilliance hid her darker side.

Erin and Heath now have two children, Rylan and Lily

Married to a Meth Addict, She Had Difficult Choices to Make

Listen as Erin Leonhardt shares how she came to understand that she couldn’t “fix” her husband’s meth addiction, that in trying to help him, she was actually enabling him.