Celebrate Recovery - Participants' Testimonies

How about taking a few minutes to read what God has done?

After many years of struggling against a poor perception of myself and all the defences I had put in place to cope with my life, God has worked through Celebrate Recovery, my whole life has changed for the better.
Initially I started to go to Celebrate Recovery as it was recommended to me. I didn't expect it to change my life, from someone who was not a Christian to begin with and my life was in a bit of a mess, I can truly recommend Celebrate Recovery, it has changed my life for the better.
Helped me to view events past and present in a different way, helped me to identify areas of denial in my life and face them head on, helped me to identify how I react and why. It has helped me to face up to issues in my life with confidence, within a secure environment.
Recovery has helped me enormously to see a way forward. My wife tells me recovery has made me a nicer person.
When I joined the recovery programme I felt like a tangled ball of wool, God has taken hold of one end of the wool and is teasing out all the tangles, and I have also stopped biting my nails after 50 years. It has helped me to identify areas in my life where I have been unable to move forward and has taught me ways of combating negative behaviour patterns on a daily basis.

The Reason I came to Celebrate Recovery was I knew I had wrong perceptions, ideas and thoughts and many problems in the relationship side of my life, with two failed marriages. I wanted to try and understand what made me what I was. I found it gave me a lot more than what I set out to understand and achieve. It has given me a foundation on what to build on for the future, it has gegan to untangle the knots. It gives me truth about myself and destroys the lies I believed about myself. one of the fundamental things it has given me is that I am loved and accepted. I never felt worthy and I did not love myself until God showed me through His word which said learn to love yourself then you can love others. It has given me confidence in myself. I now take responsibility for my actions and for what I do, I realise that I am a proper man and take the lead a lot more now. I can see light at the end of the tunnel a real future for me with lots of the rubbish in my life gone or going. I really do recommend Celebrate recovery as a life changing experience for me and maybe for you.

Before Celebrate recovery I was paralyzed with guilt, shame, condemnation, fear and self hatred. Throughout the year I have addressed all these things, and others that God has revealed to me. There has been much grace and healing.

A place where I felt accepted and understood, gave me the tools to tackle life long problems and habits, gave me space to think about me and came to understand myself better, gave me hope and made my walk with God real again. I feel a better person, calm instead of terrified.

Before Celebrate Recovery I was very needy and now I feel very secure and stable. It has helped me to grow into a person that I like better.

Helped me face issues rather than cover them up by drinking, it has increased my self-confidence and feeling of self worth, got me more used to meeting new people.

It has helped me to break through a paralysing fear that began with my earliest memories and over the years I got more and more bogged down by fear. Now I'm free and I feel so different, already I am pressing into God because at last nothing can stop me becoming who God intended me to be.