I'm going to Welcome back to Cathay Gantz was live. I am Cy Kelly, your host. As promised,

our good friend Scott Wienman here with us for this hour. I say he's our good friend, but he moved away from us. We always liked having him around. It was nice having him here in San Diego with us and he moved back to the United States and we miss him.

If you want to talk with Scott about

addiction and recovery your own your families or anyone else's that you that or you just have general questions about the

Catholic view of addiction and recovery. Scott's the man to talk to 888 3187

884 is the number to call 888 3187. 884 Scott is the founder of Catholic and

recovery growing. As a matter of fact let's find out about how much it's growing

because each time there's more I don't want to try to

give a number Scott Weeman thanks for being here with us it's a pleasure to be here and

I do more not being right next to you in studio but I'm grateful that we can connect

this way and yeah life is good here in the middle of the country.

But I thought you'd have more of a twang in your accent.

Give me a couple more appearances and you'll notice something.

All right, well, maybe just give us the basics

on Catholic and recovery, because I know still many people

don't know that this wonderful apostolate is growing

in the US and around the world, what you do and how the growing is going.

Yeah, most Catholic and recovery was founded back in 2016 or 17.

Really started from my own addiction recovery experience. I spent several years of my young adult life and really in the darkness and the grip of addiction.

You know each day promising myself that tomorrow would be different,

but you know, always reaching for alcohol drugs on a daily inconsistent basis, other addictions as well,

lustful behaviors and really anything that brings power,

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