• The General Mental Health Forum is now a Read Only Forum. As we had two large areas making it difficult for many to find, we decided to combine the Mental Health & the Recovery sections of the forum into Mental Health & Recovery as a whole. Physical Health still remains as it's own area within the entire Recovery area.

    If you are having struggles, need support in a particular area that you aren't finding a specific recovery area forum, you may find the General Struggles forum a great place to post. Any any that is related to emotions, self-esteem, insomnia, anger, relationship dynamics due to mental health and recovery and other issues that don't fit better in another forum would be examples of topics that might go there.

    If you have spiritual issues related to a mental health and recovery issue, please use the Recovery Related Spiritual Advice forum. This forum is designed to be like Christian Advice, only for recovery type of issues. Recovery being like a family in many ways, allows us to support one another together. May you be blessed today and each day.

    Kristen.NewCreation and FreeinChrist

  • Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

My Daily Prayer Commitment for help if needed

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I first became a Christian in 1995; In November of 1996 I made a commitment to stop drinking. I didn’t want to stop but I prayed the Lord change my desire if he wanted me to stop, and he did. Long story short.

In 2011 I was breaking free from a lot of Legalism I lived and the window of casually drinking opened up for me. I’ve been pretty responsible with it for the most part with a couple of lapses in judgment. I’m human. So yes, that is 15 years with no alcohol.

The part that scares me is I drank a whole bottle of wine (what is that 5 glasses) last night and got up and came to work as if nothing is wrong. I don’t drink daily but I look forward to drinking.
I have a lot to lose. God has blessed me beyond what I could’ve hoped for or imagined and I don’t want to do anything to screw that up.

Wonderful husband. New daughter in law, new grandbaby. My husband quit drinking 7 months ago because of his chemo treatments for cancer. He likes to tease me about my drinking and I always tell him I won’t if he doesn’t want me to but he says he doesn’t mind.

4/27 I’m making a daily commitment to pray it’s not my desire to quit, Change my desire if you want me to Lord.