"Then shall ye call upon Me, and ye shall go and pray unto Me, and I will hearken unto you.  And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart." Jer. 29:12,13

As Celebrate Recovery Alaska becomes a safe place for you, you will find the freedom to express all the hurts and fears you have kept inside and to free yourself from the shame and blame that are carryovers from the past.  You will become an adult who is imprisoned no longer by childhood reactions.  You will recover the child within you, learning to accept and love yourself.

The healing begins when we risk moving out of isolation.  Feelings and buried memories will return.  By gradually releasing the burden of unexpressed grief, we slowly move out of the past.  We learn to reparent ourselves with gentleness, humor, love and respect.

This process allows us to see our biological parents as the instruments of our existence.  Our actual parent is the Higher Power, Jesus Christ.  Although we had alcoholic parents, our Higher Power gave us the 8 Principles of Recovery.

This is the action and work that heals us: we use the Steps, we use the meetings, and we use the telephone.  We share our experience, strength and hope with each other.  We learn to restructure our sick thinking one day at a time.  When we release our parents from responsibility for our actions today, we become free to make healthy decisions as actors, not reactors.  We progress from hurting to healing to helping.  We awaken to a sense of wholeness we never knew was possible.

By attending these meetings on a regular basis, you will come to see parental alcoholism for what it is and how it affected you as a child, and continues to affect you as an adult.  You will learn to keep the focus on yourself in the here and now.  You will take responsibility for your own life and supply your own parenting.

You "will not" do this alone!  At Celebrate Recovery Alaska, Look around you and you will see others who know how you feel.  We will love and encourage you no matter what.  We simply ask you to accept us just as we accept you.  

This is a spiritual program based on action coming from God's Love.  We are sure that as His Love grows inside you, you will see beautiful changes in all of your relationships, especially with God, yourself and your family.
"Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us; this is the Lord; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation."  Is. 25:9