Dawn Crocco Counseling

08/31/2026

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08/31/2026

08/28/2026

Loving someone who is struggling with alcohol can be heartbreaking. You can love them, support them, forgive them, and hope for change, but you cannot choose sobriety for them.

Their recovery has to be their choice.

And while you’re hoping they find their way, don’t lose yourself along the way. ❤️

08/22/2026

I know how difficult it can be when it feels like God is distant.

When, in the face of heartbreak and struggle, we find ourselves asking, “God, where are you? Where is Your goodness in this?”

We want to continue to prioritize prayer, but what do we do when it feels like nothing is changing?

Oh friend, I understand. But I have also learned this truth: We may not always know why certain things happen, but we can trust that in this very moment, God is near and He is working.

If you feel like you’ve prayed the same prayers over and over, with little to no change, here are three ways you can keep pressing on with hope:

- Know with confidence that God hears your prayers (1 John 5:14).

- Trust that prayer makes a difference and leads to peace, even when you don't see the difference right away (Philippians 4:6-7).

- Tell fear it has no place in this conversation (Isaiah 41:10).

Don’t stop praying. Don’t stop believing that God is working on your behalf.

08/05/2026

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08/05/2026

August 05, 2026

The shape of our thoughts

"By shaping our thoughts with spiritual ideals, we are freed to become who we want to be."

Basic Text, p. 105

Addiction shaped our thoughts in its own way. Whatever their shape may once have been, they became misshapen once our disease took full sway over our lives. Our obsession with drugs and self molded our moods, our actions, and the very shape of our lives.

Each of the spiritual ideals of our program serves to straighten out one or another of the kinks in our thinking that developed in our active addiction. Denial is counteracted by admission, secretiveness by honesty, isolation by fellowship, and despair by faith in a loving Higher Power. The spiritual ideals we find in recovery are restoring the shape of our thoughts and our lives to their natural condition.

And what is that "natural condition"? It is the condition we truly seek for ourselves, a reflection of our highest dreams. How do we know this? Because our thoughts are being shaped in recovery by the spiritual ideals we find in our developing relationship with the God we've come to understand in NA.

No longer does addiction shape our thoughts. Today, our lives are being shaped by our recovery and our Higher Power.

Just for Today: I will allow spiritual ideals to shape my thoughts. In that design, I will find the shape of my own Higher Power.