Check out this story at the Chicago Tribune
Melissa has credited Celebrate the Journey in being a huge help in her recovery! Thanks Melissa for sharing your story to help fight discrimination in insurance coverage! Here is an excerpt from the article:
“I was ready to do the hard work,” said Traub, now a junior [...]
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contributed by Shelley, a Celebrate the Journey leader
It is scary to admit you are not fine. I haven’t been fine. My friends at Celebrate the Journey could see that in me. I even had a coffee and still looked tired. “What is going on with you?” they ask me, “I can tell you are not [...]
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contributed by Shelley, a Celebrate the Journey Leader
Recently someone asked what was better: the material we cover in groups, or the people in the groups?
Without a doubt I would easily say its the people. Here is my story:
When I started out in Celebrate the Journey, I was intimidated by strange people. Not that the people [...]
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contributed by: Shelley … A Celebrate the Journey leader
Sometimes the opportunity is staring us in the face. Sometimes we go out of our ways to get to it. Some of us can shrug it off, some of us sweat trying to avoid it.
For some it is chocolate, for some booze, for some men, for some [...]
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contributed by plspicker, a C the J attender
A few weeks before Christmas, during the Sunday church service I attend, I received a piece of paper and an envelope. The heading on the paper was something like -”How is God working in your life?” It was a brief writing assignment, just a quick example of how [...]
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contributed by Dave, a Celebrate the Journey attender
Do you ever have old feelings and behavior creep up long after you thought they were gone? If you are like me, you probably do.
You go through a struggle, and you realize you can’t do it alone. You might have gone to counseling, you might [...]
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contributed by pslpicker, a Celebrate the Journey attender
In my life I’ve been many places and done many things. I like to think I’ve had a good life, but the truth is I’ve lived most of it serving myself. I go from one thing to the next as it catches my interest. Then for whatever reason [...]
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submitted by: plspicker, a C the J attender
Beware of the things you laugh at. Sometimes people do things that seem very strange. I remember when I heard my sister was going to pay some lady to teach her how to breathe. I laughed at the idea. After all, I’d been breathing for 42 years and [...]
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contributed by plspicker, a C the J attender
Ya know, some days are just better than others. I don’t know what it is. Some days life is just all good. Everything is as it should be. Pieces fall in place. I see the bright, the positive, the good, the possibility, and [...]
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contributed by: plspicker… a Celebrate the Journey attender
When I was a young boy we took vacations at the Jersey Shore. I remember lying in the sun and playing in the sand, enjoying the simple life. I had taken swimming lessons and was a good swimmer for my age. Like anyone else I enjoyed swimming [...]
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