Hey y'all welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. I'm your host Heather McFadden

and this is the place where I'm going to walk alongside you and connect you with people

and resources to remind you you don't mom alone. This is our fifth week of the summer

of Mentorship and this episode originally aired in August of 2016. It was episode

129 entitled Recovery for Life. It's a chat with another mentor from my church community

Lynn Hoffman. What I came to find out was it was a safe place where I could go and start

being with other people who are willing to actually be honest and stop pretending and

willing to start talking about the reality of problems that were going on in their life

and how they could really start leaning into God to help them change and learn new ways

of doing life. I'm guessing you're like me and motherhood has revealed your most broken

places. I thought that I could blame my boys behavior or maybe the fact that I haven't

read that one panning book or if I caught the magical contentment unicorn that always

seemed just beyond my grasp. Well, none of these options have really panned out and it's

really my own junk. The everyday yuck that rises up to the surface when hard things happen

and with the pace of life and the needs of my people, I don't often stop and examine

what's going on more closely. Well, that was until our small group several years ago

joined the recovery program at our church and through some honest self-examination and

community, God showed us where we've been holding wrong beliefs and how they impacted

our relationship. Today's guest, Lynn Hoffman, helped start our church's recovery program

over 17 years ago. And God also led her to write the book Steps Into God's Grace. It's

a Bible study based on the 12 steps of recovery. In this episode, Lynn shares her own struggle

with performance, people pleasing and codependency. She's going to give us insight into why recovery

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