Julio 09/09/08

I arrived the program because of a sign my wife saw and we decided to call. Ever since the day we arrived, our lives have changed.

When I got here for the first time, I was completed lost in the addiction to gambling, and I could not find my way out to rescue myself and my family. I thought like every other person that my problem had no solution until I came and I received the help from God and others to learn to live different and to make different decisions.

I have no words to express my gratitude to this program and for what it has done in my life and my family. I now understand that I alone cannot do it but with the help of God and the program I am recovering and at the same time helping those that have come after me.

I just ask God to continue to help me heal to be able to continue helping others and returning in love what I have so graciously received.

I continue to grow and learn in my recovery process with the help of Maria Elena and Robert, so that I can return in love, the love and wisdom that I have received, and give others the tools to be free. I hope to always be an example to follow to be able to help so many others that, like me, are lost without hope.

Daida 09/04/08 Miami, Fl.

I found out about the Compassion In Action through my sister (who also recovered along with her husband), and they heard it through the radio.

For almost 20 years I was in a very dark hole, with numerous problems of health, depression, anxiety, agony, and when I was at the the end of myself, over 3 years ago, God in his immense wisdom, placed Compassion In Action in my path. The group taught me to put God in first place in my life, and I learned and understood that I was a codependent of my ex-husband, I made the mistake of idolizing him, I let him mistreat me for many years, I had no personal identity and when he walked out I literally wanted to die from the intense pain. The program confronted me with ‘myself’, and they gave me the necessary tools to find and work myself towards a happy and healthy me.

Today I am healed, I am very happy and extremely blessed. I walk with God and continue my recovery plan daily. I am very grateful to God for having sent me to Compassion In Action, where I found so much help and love.!!!!

I write these lines with much love, wishing all of those that need to conquer their addictions or co-addictions could receive what I received.

Patricia 08/27/08 Miami, Fl.

I arrived at Compassion In Action approximately in April 2008, and my life has changed incredibly. I found out about the program because I called the gamblers # 1-888-ADMIT IT.

In the beginning I went looking for help for my husband who is now a recovering gambler. With time I discovered that I needed as much help as he did, and the most important thing is that I received it in a wonderful way, from people who have taught me of my ‘family disease’ as well, and my need to let go and retake control of my life, as I give it over to God.

Finding this program has been the biggest blessing for my life, my husband and my daughter, and for all other family members.

We are so grateful for the people who make possible this dream so we may recover our lives, and at the same time our marriages, children, parents, friends, and family are recovered as well.

My family is proof that YES IT’S POSSIBLE to recover from addictions and from codependency.

 

I suffered from alcoholism for almost 20 years, these were years of pain and despair. I had lost so much, and tried so many times but I was never able to make it. I heard of Compassion In Action Ministries through my church and decided to believe one more time and to try the program. I then started to attend the program with my wife the end the year 2006. I had one relapse after I started but with the help of God and the group I got back on my feet and have been sober ever since.. I have recovered respect, trust, dignity, self worth, family, health, dreams, passion for life, relationship with God, and so much more.

I thank God for Compassion In Action, its leaders and team that have helped me and my family so much. We continue to attend and to give testimony of what God can do, when there seems to be no hope left.