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Send us Fan MailThe addiction series continues. How do we have healthy conversations with an addict and others who are affected by him or her? How do we identify unhealthy patterns and change them so that our conversations bring us more peace?  [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailThe addiction series continues with a discussion about when we come to believe that there will not be recovery. Even so, we surrender all to God and have peace at the cross. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailThe addiction series continues with a discussion of the time when the addict is in sustained recovery. They have a God-centered life that is reflected in personal healing, emotional maturity, and spiritual peace. What is our role now that the addict we love is doing so well? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailContinuing the series on addiction, this episode explores early recovery, when the addict is clean and sober but still struggling with the challenges that led to the addiction. What can you do to nurture your own healing while the addict is struggling to maintain sobriety? It's a very challenging time! [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailAddiction Series: This episode explores the complexities we face when addiction ends in death. How do we grieve? How do we fight the spiritual battle? How can we open our hearts to the healing grace of God? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailIn this series on addiction, we explore the struggles and opportunities that come when an addict we love is in jail or court-ordered rehab.  [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailThe Addiction Series Episode 6. What happens when we are estranged from the addict? How can we more willingly surrender the addict to God? Who can help us through this suffering? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailThis is part of a series on addiction. Stagnation is a time in the addiction relationship when nothing is happening. It's dark, smelly, and lifeless. How can this dead time bear spiritual fruit? There are three ways to make that happen. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailThis episode continues the series on addiction, exploring the hard decisions we must make in our relationship with the addict. How do we make a decision we can live with? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailContinuing the series on addiction, this episode explores the challenges when we are on the rehab roller coaster with the addict we love. They enter rehab, are clean for a while, then relapse. This is repeated over and over. How do we live and love and hope through this season of ups and downs? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailAddiction: What do we do when we find out there is a problem? How can I have spiritual peace in the midst of the storm? This episode explores how we can respond when we find out that someone we love has an addiction. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailThis is the beginning of a series on addiction - for those who love an addict. How do we navigate the turbulence of addiction? How do we fight the spiritual battle when the one we love is addicted? Learn about the nine seasons we can experience when in a relationship with an addict. Future episodes will explore each season in [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailIs your life disordered? What does that mean? How can we identify the disorders that keep us from God? How can we bring God's perfect order into our lives? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailThis final episode on healing offers 5 steps for creating a plan for your healing journey. You can download a Healing Plan Worksheet at my website: https://colleenorchanian.com/[email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail[Continuing the healing series] This episode presents five healing resources: Humility, Charity, Staying in the Present, Retreats, and Body Health. All of these can foster continued healing in mind, body, and spirit. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailHow can prayer, fasting, and almsgiving help me have a fruitful Lent? This episode presents many ways to live those Lenten disciplines. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailContinuing the series on healing, this episode explores 3 more healing resources: forgiveness, repentance, and book discussion groups. Three books mentioned: Be Healed by Dr. Bob SchuttesAbide by Heather KhymLoved As I Am by Sister Miriam HeidlandForgiveness Prayer: https://prayersroom.com/fr-robert-de-grandis-ssj-forgiveness-prayer/[email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailWhat resources are available for the healing journey? In this episode, you'll hear about six powerful resources: prayers of petition, communion with God, professional help, prayers of renunciation, spiritual warfare, and community. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailHealing Part 3: What obstacles block the healing we desire? How can we remove those obstacles and be open to the healing touch of Jesus? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailWe need healing in body, mind, and soul. Each affects the other. When we identify all of our healing needs, we are open to complete healing from the Divine Physician. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailThe first in a series on healing, this episode summarizes healing. What is it? Why do we need it? What are the signs that we need healing? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailHave you ever had a spiritual word of the year? Why not choose a word for Advent? Here are some possibilities and some ideas for living the word during this season of anticipation. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailHow open are you to the gifts God has for you? Do you try to rush God? This episode is about being receptive and overcoming the habits of grasping and rejecting. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailWhat does it mean to surrender? There are many false ways to surrender in faith, but what is the proper way? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailPope Francis said that the Church is a field hospital for the wounded. Is that how you see your parish? We are all part of the wounded - and part of the hospital staff. This episode is about being healing agents, helping others heal from the trials of life and the effects of our sins. Hear how you can become a healing agent in your family, parish, community, and the world. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailWe plan for many things in our lives: college for our kids, family moves, taking a vacation, and starting a business. Do we have a plan for eternity? Are we as concerned about becoming saints and getting to heaven? This episode is about how to create a plan to grow in holiness and in union with God. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailJoy is a gift of the Holy Spirit. What's the difference between joy and happiness? How can we be open to the joy God has ready for us? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailSpiritual Warfare - Continued. The weapon of the week is detachment. When we are detached from things of this world, the devil has no foothold on us. There are six common areas of attachment to consider: material, comfort, recreation, media, ideology, and people. What are you attached to? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailHow strong are you? In what ways? This episode explores five areas of strength: physical, intellectual, emotional, character, and spiritual. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailSpiritual Warfare Continued: This episode explores how sacraments and sacramentals offer grace to fight the spiritual battle. Are you making the most of these powerful weapons? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailSpiritual Warfare Continued. This week's episode is about the spiritual tool of love. Do we receive God's perfect love? Are we sharing it with others? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailSpiritual Warfare Continued: How does virtue help us fight the spiritual battle? How can we grow in virtue and be [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailSpiritual Warfare Continued. This week explores the spiritual tool of the communion of saints. How can we enlist people on earth and in heaven to help us in the spiritual battle? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailSpiritual Warfare Continued.  This episode explores the spiritual weapon of forgiveness. When we practice radical forgiveness, the enemy loses his foothold in our minds. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailSpiritual Warfare Continued. This week's episode describes how spiritual direction can become a powerful weapon to help us resist the attacks of the devil. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailSpiritual Warfare Continued. The weapon of the week is truth. Do we speak the truth? Do we speak it with love? How does truth help us fight the spiritual [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailSpiritual Warfare Continued. This episode covers the spiritual weapon of community. We need others to help us fight the good fight. What makes a good community? How can I find the one that's right for me? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail(Spiritual Warfare Continued) This episode is about the spiritual weapon of healing. The devil can't attack what is healthy and in union with God. But how do we do that? A book mentioned in the podcast is Be Healed by Dr. Bob Schuchts, also the John Paul II Healing Center for healing retreats. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailSpiritual Warfare Continued: This episode explores the spiritual weapon of self-denial. How can penance and mortification help us resist the snares of the devil? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailSpiritual Warfare - Weapon Three: Repentance. We can't fight the battle when we are in a state of sin, and we should seek to know our faults, no matter how small. Each fault is a turning away from God. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailSpiritual Warfare Continued: This episode explores how prayer can be a powerful weapon in our spiritual arsenal. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailSpiritual Warfare Continued: This episode begins the discussion of the weapons we have in our arsenal to fight the spiritual battle. The weapon of the week is the Bible, called the Sword of the Spirit by Paul in Ephesians. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailSpiritual Warfare Continued. This episode describes how to do an inventory of the spiritual attacks you face. What is the devil doing in your life? Why is it working? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailContinuing the series on spiritual warfare, this episode examines how the devil targets us during our suffering. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailContinuing the series on spiritual warfare, this episode explores how our vocation or job can become an avenue for a spiritual attack. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailThis episode continues the series on spiritual warfare. The attack highlighted here is spiritual gluttony. What is it? How can we avoid the trap that slows our spiritual progress? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailContinuing the series on spiritual warfare, this episode explores how the devil uses fear to block God's will in our lives. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail[Spiritual Warfare Continued] The perfect storm is when a group of people is spiritually attacked individually, in different ways, at the same time. When they come together, their individual attacks are magnified. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan Mail(Spiritual Warfare Continued) The attack in this episode is criticism. How does the devil attack when we are criticized? How does he attack when we are called to correct others? [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author

Send us Fan MailSpiritual Warfare Continued... This episode is about the spiritual attacks we face when someone we love has an addiction. [email protected] www.ColleenOrchanian.com Facebook: Colleen Orchanian, Author