We often begin our CR meetings with, “Welcome to Celebrate Recovery, a safe place to effectively deal with your hurts, hang-ups, and habits through working the Christ Centered 12 Steps and 8 Recovery Principles of Celebrate Recovery!"
That’s great, but…what do we mean by “hurts, hang-ups, and habits?”
Generally, a hurt, hang-up, or habit can be anything that keeps you from realizing your full potential as a person. Hurts, hang-ups, and habits can knock you off God’s life plan for you and throw you into a worldly detour headed toward destruction and despair.
HURTS A “hurt” could be classified as any life experience that may have damaged your heart, some offense against you that crippled your ability to deal with the world in a healthy way. Something that may have twisted your view of yourself, God or others. Any life experience that may have damaged your heart. Some common hurts include:
Abandonment
Abortion
Abused as a child, or by a spouse, or another
Adoption
Betrayal
Dysfunctional family (divorce, alcoholism, drug abuse, rage, etc.)
Grief
Neglect
Rape
Rejection
Cheating, affairs
Unforgiveness
HANG-UPS “Hang-ups” are those roadblocks that keep you from progressing further in God’s plan for your life. They are often shaped by some bent thinking you may have received as a child, or some unhealthy attitude you may have adopted as a means of coping with life’s challenges. Here are some common hang-ups.
Anger
Anxiety, worry
Arrogance
Body image
Bullying, bigotry
Codependency
Control
Depression
Fear
Greed, envy
Guilt (false) and/or shame
Lack of self-control
Lack of trust in God
Laziness
Materialism
People pleasing
Perfectionism
Pride
Procrastination
HABITS Finally, “habits” tend to be unhealthy patterns that often start as a perceived “remedy” for some problem in your life but end up turning into a chronic bad behavior or addiction. Habits are the repeat, default scripts you run to when the going gets tough and continually lead to trouble in your life. Ineffective behaviors that are often used to cope with a hurt. Some common habits are:
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