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Today we continue our 12-part series Reclaim Your Life.
The road to recovery takes many routes.
One way is through faith as I found out when I visited Transformations Drug and Alcohol
Treatment Center in Delray Beach, Florida, and met the people who are changing lives
through their beliefs.
The Christian Faith Based program is unique in the aspect that it embraces all people
with any hurt, habit, or hang-up.
So, that's the whole general population.
Everyone has one.
If it gets to a point where it needs to be, let's say for example the person decides to
numb it, then addiction comes into play.
That's where we intersect the pathway.
Brett Schrock knows all about the importance of spiritual health for a recovering addict.
As an ordained Pastor and the Director of the Christian Faith Based program at Transformations
Treatment Center in Delray Beach, Florida, he stresses that addiction is not a moral
failing, but rather a medical disease that can be treated successfully.
We have a specific design program that addresses faith, hope, and love.
We want people to be able to experience, maybe for the first time in a long time, what an
authentic hope is, what a renewed faith is, what unconditional love is, and only God can
provide to us.
Brett, what do you say to someone who is suffering from an addiction, and they feel they have
failed?
They failed their moral values, their faith.
They failed.
What do you say?
I say don't give up.
At all costs, don't give up.
God never wastes a hurt.
God will not leave us or forsake us.
The Bible tells us that.
We are not alone in our travails and in our challenges.
And so what we've done is, again, we've put together a 12-step program that's Christ-centered
in its nature.
We've brought together tools, methods, and support to help our clients have the best
experience that they can have to put them on an upward trajectory of recovery.
They come to Transformations from every background, age, and gender; many who have lost hope after
years of addiction.
The goal of the Christian Faith Based program is to provide a spiritual pathway for them
to find personal healing and restoration through their faith.
We've been here many times at Transformations Treatment Center, and I've noticed it's a
diverse group.
How do you have them share the spiritual pathway?
Well the spiritual pathway is based on a variety of things.
It's actually tangible resources.
It's prayer.
It's worship time.
So, when people sing they have a camaraderie that naturally comes with that.
It's fun.
For a lot of people that haven't been inflicted with a chemical for a period of time or had
that experience with their chemical addiction, they don't they think they can have fun without
it.
So when they start to experience fun by singing and by studying God's truth, it opens up a
whole new corridor of what living can be.
It puts them on a new pathway, if you will.
While many other treatment centers may believe that simply providing transportation to religious
services is all that's needed to be a provider of Christian Faith Based programming, Transformations
is unique in that it offers so much more including its own chapel, an ordained pastor, a clinical
staff of committed faith based followers, and even its own music minister.
Music is one of those anomalies that can either be background noise or it can be a forefront
of life.
And so here at Transformations we try to take it from background noise to actually being
a part of the recovery process, where you can actually listen to a piece of music that
takes you out of your head and gets you to a point where you're no longer craving or
no longer obsessing over something that's maybe unhealthy or could be fatal, to where
it takes you out of that and you're able to process where am I at, what am I doing, what
the truth that I need to reflect on?
So, it's huge.
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When you go through the struggle and then recovering
from the struggle, you can listen to these songs and you just feel this burning inside
of you.
It just like raises you up onto a different level, and you just have this connection with
God that is just, it's incredible.
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How have you seen that music has helped a recovering addict?
I've seen tears shed.
I've seen people laugh.
I've seen smiles come to faces where I haven't seen any smiles at all during the course of
my time with the client.
And I've seen a freedom from a spiritual standpoint birthed through the process of worship.
It's a fascinating phenomenon.
It's an amazing thing to witness.
Would you agree that the Christian Faith Based program here can truly change a life?
Yes, I've seen it happen.
I've seen it happen.
Restoring hope, changing lives, creating purpose.
It's what the Christian Faith Based program is all about, and what Transformations Drug
and Alcohol Treatment Center offers to recovering addicts.
And we hope you'll continue to join us in our series as we show you how these unique
programs which set Transformations Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center apart can help others
as well.
Next time we'll be taking a holistic approach to recovery.
Remember, for more information you can go to TransformationsTreatment.Center or our
website, TheBalancingAct.com.
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