LDS Counseling

How LDS Counseling Can Help Your Addiction Recovery

Are you tired of your dependence upon drugs? Do life’s pressures keep forcing you back to using? You have likely tried to stay away from your addiction, but you end up failing. The cravings and the urge to use are so intense that you cannot manage to stay away from it. You are ruining your personal relationships, your career has been compromised, and your health keeps deteriorating.

The initial decision to use drugs is a voluntary one. However, using drugs repeatedly creates changes in your brain that make you lose self-control. The ensuing addiction overrides your rational ability to resist the strong urge to abuse drugs.

It‘s time to take action to get rid of your bad habits before it is too late. Lion’s Gate Recovery has been established to help you overcome this nightmare of drug addiction. We can help you make a change. We help you find and connect with a power that is stronger than substance abuse. We’ll help you find the love that will return the light to your life and free you from the darkness of drug addiction.

LDS Counseling Can Make a World of Difference

Lion’s Gate Recovery programs are different from others. There are many rehabilitation facilities and choosing one can be overwhelming. Having to go through the individual programs being offered at these institutions and selecting the best one for yourself or your loved one is a huge task. Lion’s Gate Recovery offers you a compassionate experience that integrates family members into the healing process. And we offer a behavioral therapy program that incorporates LDS Counseling to help you overcome your addiction. You will be surrounded by a caring staff that is ready to help you in every step of your recovery process. The professionals at Lion’s Gate Recovery have dedicated themselves to helping you find your way to an enduring recovery from your addiction.

The program at Lion’s Gate Recovery is based on faith. The program revolves around the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints. The principles of faith found in the LDS church are an essential part of the recovery process. You will be able to be taken through Jesus Christ’s teachings in a new way and learn again to receive His love as you work through your recovery process. Our environment is full of loving and caring people. The people working at the facility are true believers in Christ’s Atonement. Heavenly Father created you with the love and passion that He holds for all of His children.
You are Heavenly Father’s child, He created you in His image, and therefore whenever you ask for His intervention in your life He will be there for you. We will help you to grow close to Him and to learn to love and appreciate yourself as you struggle to overcome your addiction.

Receive the Comprehensive Treatment That You Need

Lion’s Gate Recovery has tailored its programs to meet your individual needs specifically. Every individual is different. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to helping people recover from addiction. Our facility has highly experienced professionals who are ready to listen and provide the support you need to leave [your addiction] behind.

Detox

Drug abuse leads to accumulation of toxins in your body’s system that need to be removed. The first step when you reach the facility is to detoxify yourself from the toxins. We realize the withdrawal symptoms and the unending desire to go back to your addiction behavior can be overwhelming. The facility has specialists who care for you and help you through these debilitating effects.

Social detox is also offered to you as well, and this helps you remove the negative influences that you have in your life. The treatment process begins with LDS counseling and continues with the LDS Twelve Step Program. This approach is so successful that we offer you a lifetime guarantee. We know that recovery is a lifelong process and we are committed to being your long-term partner.

During treatment, you will attend the LDS 12-step meetings. This program is focused on gospel principles, and it fosters recovery and healing.

The LSD 12-Step Program

The 12-step program includes teachings based upon principles, an in-depth understanding of the intention behind the principles, and practical suggestions for applying said principles. The principles are:

Step 1. Honesty

This principle entails being able to admit to the fact that on your own you don’t have the capability to overcome your drug addiction. Being able to admit to the seriousness of your condition and stop deceiving yourself and the people around you is the first major crucial step towards recovery. By being honest about your addiction, you express the willingness to stop using by placing your dependence upon your Heavenly Father.

Step 2. Hope

This entails being able to believe that Heavenly Father can help set you free from the chains of drug addiction. The step involves letting go of your pride and consider bringing Heavenly Father back into your life. This step helps you discover how to surrender your problems to Heavenly Father and allow Him to take control of your situation. You need to believe in the love and mercy of Heavenly Father and the grace of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Step 3. Trust in Heavenly Father

You are required to make a decision to turn your will and your life over to the care of God. You need to open yourself to Heavenly Father’s influence and surrender your entire life: past, present and the future. This step allows the grace of Heavenly Father to flow into your life to help you recover and redeem yourself. You can attend sacrament meetings. By making this decision, you will be able to experience the comfort and joy that comes from seeking and doing the will of your Heavenly Father.

Step 4. Truth

This principle entails coming up with a searching and fearless written inventory of yourself and your life.

Step 5. Confession

You need to admit to yourself, Heavenly Father, and to one other person the exact nature of your wrongs committed due to addiction. You need to find the desire within yourself to seek forgiveness. You also have the opportunity to seek counsel from the Bishop, if you want. The important thing is to start being 100% honest with Heavenly Father, yourself, and other people.

Step 6. Change of Heart

You need to become entirely ready to have Heavenly Father strengthen all of your weaknesses of character. This requires you to allow Jesus Christ to enter your heart. You’ll also want to participate in Church fellowship by attending Sunday school and relief society or priesthood meetings.

Step 7. Humility

You need to kneel down and humbly ask your Heavenly Father to forgive and strengthen your shortcomings.

Step 8. Seek Forgiveness

You should be able to recognize all persons you have wronged and humbly ask for their forgiveness. During your addiction process, you likely have behaved poorly towards the people you love and ended up hurting your relationships and careers substantially. The actions involved in this step entail forgiving yourself and others, making a list of all people you have offended or harmed, and approaching them for their forgiveness.

Step 9. Restitution and Reconciliation

You need to make a direct restitution to all individuals you have harmed in the past. The actions involved here include loving others, refraining from judging other individuals, be willing to accept a church calling and pay tithes and offerings. You should be willing to do what is necessary in order to make the amends.

Step 10. Daily Accountability

You are asked to make personal, daily inventory, and when you are wrong you need to admit and record it promptly. Participate in Priesthood interviews as part of your commitment to self-appraisal and continue to strengthen your relationships with other church members. You need to pay attention to your thoughts, words, and deeds daily. You will learn to immediately address wrong deeds so they do not become bigger problems.

Step 11. Personal Revelation

You need to seek through prayer and meditation to understand Heavenly Father’s will and to have the power to carry it out. The actions involved in this step include coming to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ through private prayers and meditations to receive directions and power. You need to receive and study your patriarchal blessing. This period requires you to put Heavenly Father first in all your endeavors before everything else.

Step 12. Service

Having acquired the Spiritual awakening as a result of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, you need to share the message with others and practice these principles in your daily life. The actions in this step include bearing public testimonies, magnifying callings and talents in serving others, holding family home evening and family prayer, and preparing to attend the temple.