Unfortunately, we need to cancel tonight’s San Antonio meeting
Please join us on Zoom. Contact info@castimonia.org for the Zoom meeting links.
You Are Not Your Addiction
Addiction can distort identity, especially when shame becomes the loudest voice in recovery. But struggling with compulsive behavior is not the same as being defined by it.
This video challenges the idea that addiction is who you are and offers a healthier, more grounded way to think about identity, dignity, and healing—especially in the context of betrayal trauma and recovery work.
Learn more about Sex Addiction 101 and how recovery starts with clarity, not shame:
hopeandfreedomu.com/sex-addiction-101
Saturday Katy Meeting Zoom Only
We will not be able to meet in person this coming Saturday morning so the 10am meeting will be Zoom only.
Please contact info@castimonia.org for Zoom links.
Castimonia Purity Podcast Episode 137: Transformation, Not Transaction | Romans 12 and the Recovery Matrix
In this episode, Chris explores the Bible through the lens of addiction recovery and the Transformational Recovery Matrix. Drawing on themes from The Transformational Recovery Matrix, this conversation unpacks the differences between sobriety and transformation, performance and surrender, and behavior management and heart renewal.
Chris explains:
- Why addiction disciples the body and mind
- How the four recovery quadrants expose deeper heart postures
- The Greek meaning behind “be transformed”
- Why transformation is passive but participatory
- The difference between transactional and transformational recovery
- How “trivial boomerangs” reveal deeper character issues
- Why God grows oak trees, not microwaved Christians
New Step 11 Video Call
Hi Guys,
If you are interested in working on going deeper with Step eleven with other men in recovery, please join me on a TEAMS video call on the second Saturday of each month from 8:30-9:30am. Even though the call is scheduled for an hour, we will target a 30–45-minute call each month.
Step 11 with the corresponding verse is:
We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – His good, pleasing, and perfect will.” (Romans 12:2)
For these calls we will be focusing on “Improving our conscious contact with God” by guided meditations of recovery related scriptures, contemplation of Christian paintings, times of silence where we spend time in the presence of our Father, etc….
I please contact dnkelly63@gmail.com for the Microsoft TEAMS link (similar to ZOOM). If you have not used TEAMS before, you may have to download it to your device (it is free), so take this into account before the first meeting.
Also, PLEASE feel free to send this email/information to others that you think may be interested.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss this meeting further, please let me know.
On the journey together,
Doug
