Hello and welcome to Cattle Gansers Live. I'm Sy Kelly, your host. So happy to be here with you. Thank you for being here with us. We do have a really good show for you as part of our whole.

You know, we're trying to be supportive and helpful in the whole praying for and working towards a eucharistic revival here in the United States and around the world. So we've got a beautiful conversation about the beauty of the mass the second hour.

And I hope you will join us for that this hour. Well, let's do a little bit of healing and addiction from addiction and conversation along those lines. Maybe you're a family member.

Maybe that you have addiction issues in your own life. If you'd like to talk about those, we love doing these shows. They're they're they're always fruitful. They always feel like we we that's something good happened when we have these shows and your calls are welcome 888-318-788-4.

Triple 8-318-788-4. Our guests as always for these shows is our good friend Scott Weeman who lives right here in the San Diego area and is the founder of Catholic in Recovery, which you can find at Catholicinrecovery.com. Scott, thank you for being here.

It's a pleasure to be with you. You look extremely bearded. Yeah, thanks. You got bearded since last I saw you. Yeah, it was on a long road trip this summer when on a road trip was on the road for about 70 days.

Put on about 10,000 miles on our SUV brought the family with me for most of it and had a chance to see much of the country. Many Catholicinrecovery groups in different cities around the US. So I grew beard along the way.

That's great because many people that's their dream is to get in an SUV with three children under five years old and just see the country with a lot of screaming in the car. It was lovely.

Alright, well tell us first of all about Catholicinrecovery because there are people who are listening saying, what is that all about? So give us the insight.

Yeah, so Catholicinrecovery, first I must introduce myself as a recovering addict and alcoholic myself and experience the darkness of addiction for many years and had a chance to find new life through 12 step addiction recovery and the grace available in the Catholic church.

So Catholicinrecovery's aim is really to blend the principles of 12 step addiction recovery with the traditions of the Catholic church and not so much of an organization as we are a community of men and women around the country around the world seeking freedom from a variety of addictions, compulsions and unhealthy attachments.

That includes alcoholism, drug addiction, gambling, pornography and lust addiction, food related addictions, overeating or restricted eating, codependency, hoarding, all sorts of things.

And I see those as different symptoms of the same spiritual malady and we also serve your families impacted by loved ones addiction as well.

888-318-7884 is the number, maybe you're in recovery yourself, maybe you're hoping for recovery, maybe as Scott said there's a family member you'd like to talk about, 888-318-7884.

So if you say that at root it's the same spiritual malady for one thing that gives me a sense that even if you never have said the words I'm an alcoholic or I'm a drug addict,

you can be sympathetic because we all suffer from spiritual malady that drive us to compulsions or habits or behaviors that we wish we didn't have and that we need God to help us overcome.

Yeah, we develop idols in our life and for an alcoholic that idol is alcohol and doing for us what only God can do, food someone who is a compulsive overeater, theirs is food specifically flour and sugar which has activating effects to produce compulsions and obsessions and attachments.

Yeah, there are nuances differences between each addiction type and the recovery for each but yeah, whether it's a process, a behavior that we go to, a substance that we turn to, something that is not of God that we resort to in order to cope, I think certainly seeks needs some recovery from.

888-318-7884, triple 8-318-7884, the 12 steps started with alcoholics anonymous they're used in many places now you say a kind of blending of this Catholic spirituality with the practical help of the 12 steps.

So you're not trying to replace anybody's 12 step program? No, no, that's we're not here to be a substitute for alcoholics anonymous, overeaters anonymous, narcotics anonymous, sexo-holics anonymous, there is a 12 step group, multiple 12 steps groups for many different, you name the condition or the compulsion addiction, there's a 12 step group for it.

There are Catholic and recovery serves to be supplemental to in many ways, we see it as a bridge between addiction recovery and the Catholic church.

Finding many people who are in the church in need of addiction recovery, perhaps they were once referred to a 12 step recovery group, they may have found some anti-Catholic sentiment within that group or perhaps some internal factors, denial, shame, fear, gets in the way of us finding recovery in that moment.

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