I am a follower of Jesus, an adult child of family dysfunction, and a survivor of sexual, emotional, and spiritual abuse. I struggle with codependency, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and emotional eating.  My name is Nicole.

I started attending Celebrate Recovery in April of 2018 because I wanted to be free of the addiction to pornography I had developed as a pre-teen to deal with my pain and abandonment issues and continued to struggle with, even as a Christian for 20 years.  By the time I came to CR, I couldn’t stop.  I know.  I had tried.  Celebrate Recovery showed me the path to true relationship with Jesus, which not only gave me the strength to stop reading and watching porn, but also set me free from the depression I had felt since I was a young child.  I continue to work through my issues of codependency and perfectionism and turning to food for comfort when I feel overwhelmed.

What I have realized in recovery is that God created me to be whole. He wants to heal all my broken pieces so that I can fully be who He created me to be: a precious, victorious, beloved, beautiful daughter of the King of the universe, the Creator of everything. He loves me with an all-encompassing love that nothing I do or don’t do can ever change. And I want to share that truly magnificent news with everyone I meet.

There is healing from pain. There is hope for every struggle. And there is a Love that was broken so we could be whole. This is the raw reality of my journey.