My name is Nathalie, and I am an Alcoholic and grateful to be an Alumni with Renascent. This is my personal experience with Step 7. Step 7 of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) involves humbly asking a Higher Power to remove our “character defects.” The pivotal part of this Step is often humility. The 7th Step of … Continued
A note on language. At Renascent, we help people recover from substance use addiction and integrate 12-Step facilitation into our programming. We recognize that the substances our clients are recovering from and the 12-Step groups they connect with may vary. Throughout our website you may see general terms relating to the 12 Steps as we … Continued
For the first part of his life, “I didn’t have to try too hard,” Shawn admits. An honour role student and athlete, he’d been accepted at a great university and recruited to play soccer. But when an injury sidelined his athletic season, Shawn found himself struggling to cope. “I was feeling sorry for myself, drinking … Continued
“The first time I accessed treatment, I just wasn’t ready,” Misha admits. “If you had asked me, I would have told you I was. But the truth is, I wasn’t in a place where I was fully willing and capable of putting the principles of recovery into place.” For years, he had used drinking to … Continued
Without even being conscious of it, every day we make numerous decisions that have the potential to either enrich or diminish our life. These decisions (big and small) either move us toward or away from being the type of person we want to become or the type of life we want to have. For example, … Continued
“When my children were younger,” Derek shares, “the Children’s Aid Society was involved in our lives. At the time, I didn’t take that as seriously as I should have – I’d had a problem with my drinking since my early 20s, and our home environment wasn’t appropriate for kids. Unfortunately, instead of working to make … Continued
