Thanks for listening to this Susie Larson Live podcast available thanks to support from listeners like you. and just won't do dance. You don't have to know how to ever since, ever since we've got

you left. Welcome to Sissy Larson Live. Always so honored to get to spend this time with you. In fact,

I look forward to bringing you daily conversations and hopefully inspire you in your faith walk

that deepen your understanding of God's amazing word, and that heightens your

awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, we have another important show for you

today. You know, every single person is walking around with an accumulated measure of pain in their

souls. The question is, how do we deal with how we feel? Many people turn to their drug of

choice, eating, drinking, shopping,

scrolling, consuming pills, porn, or otherwise. But the thing is, these things only work for a short

time. They numb us for a short time until they don't. Eventually, you've got to consume more and more

just to feel normal until you wake up one day and you realize you're held captive by your addiction. Well, the good news is that Jesus

came to set the captives free and maybe today will be a day of breakthrough for you. John Elmer joins me today

to talk about his book, Freedom Starts Today, Overcoming Struggles and Addictions one day at a time.

And John says this, you can be free from your struggle and much sooner than you

think. So I'm going to go out on a limb here. I mean, this is a raw show. You know this. It's a no-fluff

zone. I'm very raw and real every day, and I know you are too. But this perhaps is the most

raw question I've ever asked in all these years they're doing this show. But what would you say is the one area that you tend to

overindulge in? You kind of go there to kind of numb your pain. Is it shopping, scrolling,

drinking, eating? What is sort of your drug of choice? And again, this is not to say you're an

addict. Maybe you are, but maybe this is just you catch yourself going, going okay i notice i do this when i'm feeling

misunderstood or overlooked or hurting or things feel out of control where do you default to i would love to

know you can text me 877 933 248 i won't name anybody's names these are all going to be anonymous

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