✅Childhood dysfunction ✅#Pornography #addiction ✅#SexualAddiction ✅People manipulation ✅#Anger addiction ✅Brokenness ✅#Grace ✅New creation My name is Richard, and this is my story! #Testimony #RecoveryPosse #SoberPosse #RecoveryMonth #Recovery https://t.co/45REYhKy6z

Step 12 My FAVORITE step! Now that I'm in a better position, but not immune to temptation, I have a responsibility to give what was given to me. Helping others is a reminder that the old life can become a reality once more if I'm not vigilant in my recovery.

Step 11 Yeah, I cleaned house and got myself together, but if I don't fill myself with something good the toxicity comes roaring back. I need daily reminders that it was my way that brought me into recovery and His way that brought me through.

Step 10 It's not enough to escape toxicity. I have to stay away from it. It's not enough to purify water, we need to test it regularly to make sure it isn't contaminated. Step 10 had me looking at myself in a whole new way. Self-accountability gave new legs to my recovery.

Step 9 I have to forgive THAT PERSON?! Maybe, I'm not as good of a person as I thought. Remember,how me refusing to work Step 3 sent me back to Step 1? Refusing Step 9 sends me back to Step 6. Being resentful was a character defect that took me a while to work through.

Step 8 Another list? Yay, I love lists! 😃 By this time, I'm a good person. I want to make things right with people and forgive people. I don't want to hold on to the resentments and embarrassment that have held me down for so long.

Step 7 So I have to let God fix me? I can't just fix myself? 🤔 Step 7 is the open-heart surgery of recovery. What I won't release is holding me back! As a song once said, "The same things you're thinking might make you feel better are the same things that probably got you here."

I say I want to get free, but am I willing to confess when the problem is...me?! 🫨 I had grown comfortable with some of my characters defects. Did I have to give them up? The answer was, "Yes!" And Step 6 is where my heart prepared for the process of becoming who I now am.

Step 5 "Whoa, buddy! No one told me I had to share my inventory! Nope, I ain't gonna do it!" But I did it anyway. Good support in recovery is important. If I had been shamed for my past I would have run back to it. However, I had a great sponsor. I miss you, John!

Step 4 ✅️Checklist. Grocery list. Inventory. I can make a list. Despite it's reputation, Step 4 was not an issue for me. The major heartaches, the lies I told, the kid who pushed me down in elementary school, I wrote it all. I wasn't so sure why people feared Step 4.

Step 3 "I've been in 'control' this whole time, now I have to surrender to this invisible God?" 🤷🏾‍♂️That mentality sent me back to Step 1. It was after the return that I finally surrendered to His will. If my will could have saved me I wouldn't have been in that spot, but I was.

Step 2 Despite losing most of my faith in my addiction, the microshreds of faith I had allowed me to believe that God was real and that He had the power to heal people. The question remained, "Would He do it FOR ME?" I believed, but He would have to "help my unbelief." He did!

Step 1 When I showed up to recovery, I was ready to admit my life was unmanageable. Prior to recovery, I didn't have to control my addiction, I just had to make it look like I was in control (managing). I failed. That brought me through the doors ready to confess my mess.

Today marks 12 years of continuous #recovery for me! To celebrate, I want to share my experiences with the #12Steps. #RecoveryPossee #WeDoRecover #RecoverOutLoud

You can't grow with someone who doesn't change. #RykTatumNotes

Between @TMobile and @UPS I'm about to grow more gray hair and pull it all out. How can something so simple be made so complicated!

[Shema, Richard] Listen, Richard! The Lord is your God. The Lord is speaking. Let your love for Him inspire you to listen. Let your listening, produce your obedience. Listen, with your ears, But also with your mind, Your heart, Your soul. Let all that you are obey Him in love.

Glorious day for all the sports-loving, theology nerds! Happy #ReformationDay! (I found the image on the Facebooks.)

#MyChosenMoments #1 This moment is an anthem for history! So many people like parts of Jesus but don't understand or appreciate the other parts. He is love AND repentance. He is justice AND mercy! He died for the offended AND the offender. @thechosentv

#MyChosenMoments #2 If you've ever felt unworthy of what God has chosen you to do, I feel you! I still have days where I question if God chose the right person when He chose me. @iamparaspatel @thechosentv

#MyChosenMoments #3 In my grief, I heard Jeremiah 29:11 far more than I cared for. Scripture is great, but you can't always "scripture" the grief away. Sometimes, we need people! @shaharisaac @thechosentv