Healing Through Christ · free for everyone, always
Help, hope and healing, through Christ.
You don’t need to know which Step applies. Describe what’s happening and it finds the principle — and the page.
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A Christ-centered Twelve Step workbook.
Healing Through Christ is built on Healing Through Christ: Help, Hope and Healing, a Twelve Step workbook written to be read aloud in support groups and worked alongside a sponsor.
It was written for recovery from pornography and sexual addiction. Many of its principles — surrender, honesty, accountability, trust in God, and letting go of what we cannot control — can also be meaningful for people facing other addictive patterns or loving someone who is.
Free for everyone, always.
We promised the author of this workbook we would never charge for it.
Who it’s for
For addiction, yours or someone you love.
Healing Through Christ is for you when the urge hits and you’re alone tonight. When you slipped yesterday and the shame won’t let you pray. When you keep going back to the thing you genuinely don’t want. And when it’s not you — it’s your child, your spouse, your friend — and you’re exhausted from trying to control what you can’t.
More ways to work with Healing Through Christ
Prompts you can copy word for word.
Here are the ways people work with it.
Right now
When you’re struggling right now
- I’m having a really strong urge to act out right now. Help me work through it using Healing Through Christ principles.
- I’m alone tonight and starting to fantasize. What principles from the workbook could help me recognize what’s happening?
- I slipped yesterday and I’m drowning in shame. Help me understand the difference between shame and repentance.
- I’m angry with my spouse and I notice that anger makes me want to act out. Help me explore what’s going on underneath that.
- I’m telling myself that looking at something “just for a minute” won’t hurt anything. Help me see whether I’m rationalizing.
It locates the workbook’s sections on triggers and danger zones, cycles and rituals, fantasy, slips and relapses, shame, and anger and resentment — and helps you look at your situation through them.
Your patterns
Understand what’s happening inside you
- Why do I keep returning to this when I genuinely don’t want to?
- Help me identify my addiction cycle.
- What’s the difference between a trigger, a craving, a ritual, fantasy, and acting out?
- Could loneliness be one of my triggers? Ask me questions to help me figure that out.
- Help me distinguish between an emotion and the story I’m telling myself about that emotion.
- I feel rejected. Help me trace what happens between feeling rejected and wanting to act out.
- What forms of denial might I be using without realizing it?
It asks questions that help you recognize your own patterns instead of telling you what’s wrong with you. This is Step Four territory: the roots of the behavior, emotions, codependency, shame, fear, negative self-talk, anger, resentment, and past trauma.
The Steps
Work a specific Step
- I’m working Step One. Ask me questions that will help me understand what powerlessness means in my life.
- Walk me through Step Two without giving me the answers. Ask me questions that help me discover what I actually believe about Christ’s ability to heal me.
- I’m struggling to surrender in Step Three. Help me understand what surrender is — and what it isn’t.
- Help me begin my Step Four inventory.
- I’m preparing for Step Five and I’m scared. What does the workbook teach about that fear?
- Help me understand what it means to surrender a character weakness in Steps Six and Seven.
- Help me think through my Step Eight list.
- I’m considering making an amends. Help me think through whether it could injure the other person, myself, or someone else.
- Take me through a Step Ten daily inventory for today.
- Help me use Step Eleven to seek God’s will about something I’m facing.
It helps you prepare for conversations with your sponsor. It doesn’t try to become your sponsor.
Your sponsor
Before or after a sponsor call
- I’m embarrassed to tell my sponsor what happened. Help me identify what I’m afraid of.
- I don’t know what to say when I call my sponsor. Help me organize what I’m experiencing.
- My sponsor challenged something I said and I got defensive. Help me examine why.
- Give me three questions from the workbook that would be worth discussing with my sponsor.
The workbook
Study the workbook
- Find everything the workbook teaches about isolation.
- What does Healing Through Christ say about honesty and transparency? Give me the strongest passages and page numbers.
- Show me the workbook’s teachings about grace.
- Find passages about God’s love for someone who feels unworthy.
- What does the workbook say about withdrawal?
- Compare what Steps One, Two, and Three teach about my responsibility versus God’s power.
- Find stories in the workbook from people who relapsed, and tell me what they learned.
- Give me five quotations about hope that I can study this week.
Reflection
Turn reading into reflection
- I just read the section on triggers and danger zones. Ask me one question at a time to help me identify mine.
- I just finished the section on shame. Don’t summarize it. Help me discover where shame is operating in my recovery.
- Ask me five difficult questions based on Step One that I might be avoiding.
Group
Prepare for group
- I’m leading a discussion on Step Two tonight. What are three good discussion questions based on that section?
- Give me a short overview of today’s section before I go to group.
- I didn’t understand something someone shared in group about surrender. Help me explore the principle.
- Help me think of something meaningful I could share about what I’ve learned this week.
Every day
A daily check-in
- Take me through my daily recovery check-in.
It walks you through the Step Ten questions: where you met temptation, resentment, fear, dishonesty, isolation, or unhealthy fantasy today; what you did in response; what needs acknowledging or correcting; who you need to connect with; and what God might be inviting you to surrender today.
Honesty
Ask it to challenge you
Addiction runs on denial, rationalization, and justification. You can ask for honesty.
- I’m going to explain why I think what I’m doing isn’t really a problem. Compare my reasoning with the forms of denial described in Healing Through Christ.
- Don’t reassure me automatically. Help me see whether I’m rationalizing.
- What would my sponsor probably want me to examine about what I just said?
- Help me separate facts from the story I’m telling myself.
- Ask me questions that expose what I may not want to admit.
The goal isn’t condemnation. It’s honesty.
Christ
Bring Christ into it directly
- I believe Christ can forgive me, but I don’t believe He can change me. Help me explore that using the workbook.
- I feel too ashamed to pray. What does Healing Through Christ teach that might help?
- Help me understand grace in recovery.
- How can surrendering to Christ look practically different from simply trying harder?
- Find me a scripture and a passage from the workbook that I can ponder tonight.
- Help me write a prayer based on what I’m struggling with.
- Where might God’s hand have been present in my recovery today? Ask me questions rather than answering for me.
This is the heart of the workbook. Its authors wrote it to help people find “the sweet redeeming freedom that is found in Jesus Christ, our Savior — the Master Healer of our souls.”
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The formula, if you only remember one thing
What happened + what you’re feeling + what you’re tempted to do.
- Here’s what happened: [describe it]. Here’s what I’m feeling: [name it]. Here’s what I’m tempted to do: [be honest]. Help me understand what’s happening using Healing Through Christ, and ask me questions that will help me decide my next recovery action.
- My spouse was distant tonight. I felt rejected and angry. Now I’m alone and the old pull is back. Help me understand what’s happening using Healing Through Christ, and ask me questions that will help me decide what my next recovery action should be.
Christ first. Then your sponsor, your group, your recovery friends, professional help where it’s needed, and the Steps. Healing Through Christ helps you study and get honest along the way. Explore. Pray. Ponder. Discern.
What Healing Through Christ is not
It keeps pointing where it should.
It isn’t your sponsor, your group, or your Savior. It helps you study, reflect, and get honest. The workbook keeps pointing where it should — to Jesus Christ, “the Master Healer of our souls.”
If you’re in crisis
Call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the US, or your local emergency number.
The 12 step has helped me tremendously in dealing with my adult child that has an addiction. I have felt such a shift in learning how to Trust the Lord more with my child and not be so co-dependent — which I didn’t even realize I was dealing with.
JulieDaily user
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