Episode 363 - Finding the Fix for our Addiction, Pain, and Trauma with Ian Morgan Cron

The Nothing Is Wasted Podcast

Davey Blackburn and Aubrey Sampson

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

How can we deal with our addictions in a way that brings true healing? What does the Twelve Steps Program offer all of us when it comes to getting to the root of what keeps us bound by poor coping strategies?Ian Morgan Cron is a well-known author and podcastor around the Enneagram, a personality typing system, but his story didn't start there. After a difficult and traumatic childhood, Ian found himself entangled in addiction. It was through the Twelve Steps Program and his own recovery that Ian realized that we all look to things outside of God when it comes to fixing our pain, trauma, and past. But a tool like the Twelve Steps can help lead us back into surrender, forgiveness, and union with God and help us learn to cope with the difficulties and challenges of life. In his latest book, The Fix: How the Twelve Steps Offer a Surprising Path of Transformation for the Well-Adjusted, the Down and Out, and Everyone in Between!, Ian shares practical ways that the Twelve Steps can help anyone deal with what leads them towards the unhealthy patterns of addiction and coping and into a new perspective of looking at life, relationships, and our experiences. In this deep conversation, Davey and Ian talk about how the Twelve Steps can be helpful no matter what you're facing, the way in which prayer can get rid of our mental garbage, and why surrender and forgiveness are so pivotal in our healing. If you have found yourself constantly looking for a "fix" when it comes to your pain, this episode will encourage you that God is inviting you to experience healing and wholeness through Him alone that pain, addiction, and trauma try to keep you from. Website: https://ianmorgancron.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ianmorgancron Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IanMorganCron/ Book: The Fix: How the Twelve Steps Offer a Surprising Path of Transformation for the Well-Adjusted, the Down and Out, and Everyone in Between! https://a.co/d/2tggNUw Are you looking for the perfect study for your small group? Check out the Nothing is Wasted Video Series: https://www.nothingiswasted.com/bookstudy Get your copy of When It Hurts: Comforting Promises for Hard Times here: generationclaimed.com/when-it-hurts Looking for a tangible gift for a friend who is hurting? The restorbox is a beautifully curated gift box that will show your loved one you care: nothingiswasted.com/restorbox

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0:00.0	Hey guys, before we dive into this episode, I just want to make sure that you're aware of a resource that we just released, and I'm incredibly excited about.
0:07.9	It's called Nothing Is Wasted Video Series and Study Guide. That's right. It is a Bible study and video series that surrounds Nothing is Wasted the book.
0:16.9	This succession video-based study includes everything that you need to have deep and meaningful conversations around Nothing is Wasted the book and the themes that emerge in the book, grief and loss and forgiveness and hope and redemption and more.
0:31.3	When you order Nothing is Wasted Video Series and Study Guide, you'll get access to six short videos that you can use with your small group,
0:38.0	with a group of friends, with coworkers, with a book club, with your church. Plus, you'll get a study
0:43.9	guide that's full of not just helpful tips for organizing your group time, but also session
0:49.8	questions, homework, robust Bible study that will help you to dive deeper into the material
0:57.0	and start to see, okay, where does scripture talk about the things that emerge and nothing
1:02.1	is wasted the book? And while we believe this series is best done in community in a group,
1:07.1	you can also go and grab it and do it on your own. It's a great deep dive into how God
1:12.5	might be showing up in your own story. That's why I wrote nothing as waste of the book.
1:16.4	It's because I wanted you to see how he's showing up in my story so that you can begin to
1:20.3	superimpose yourself into it and go, all right, where is God showing up in your own story?
1:26.6	And we all know that we have stories all of us of pain and heartache
1:30.5	and in those times in those seasons it leaves us wondering where's redemption where's god and all of
1:35.5	this i truly believe that with god and with the help of others i mean a lot of times he uses other
1:40.7	people and community around us that there is healing available to you right now, no matter what you're going through.
1:45.9	And as you dive into, or maybe you've already experienced by diving into Nothing is Wasted the book and you read my story and Amanda's story.
1:53.5	And as you hear the story of other people as you go through this study together, you're going to begin to realize that in your story, nothing is wasted.
2:00.2	And that God is doing a tremendous work
2:02.0	through that. So I want you to pick up Nothing is Wasted video series and study guide, whether you're
2:05.4	going through it with a group or by yourself, go to nothingiswasted.com slash book study. Again,
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