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Master the art of self-management in a social world by staying full of God!
Welcome
The Create Your New Normal program (CYNN) was designed to help you through the transition period that occurs when you have completed an addiction recovery program and are ready to re-enter community living - without the unhealthy dependency. Whether you have been addicted to drugs or alcohol, shopping or gambling, video games or social media, people pleasing or chasing achievements, this web site provides information that will help you build new habits that lead to a peaceful, purposeful, and balanced life. If you’re looking to find your way out of the cycle of counterproductive addictive thinking and behavior, exploring this site may be the stimulation you need to turn your thoughts into realistic expectations that motivate action so you can realize your hope.
The CYNN program prepares you to face and overcome the obstacles that accompany the maintenance of an addiction-free lifestyle in mainstream community living. Reading and engaging in the materials on this site will sharpen your awareness, improve your problem-solving and decision-making skills and give you the confidence to remove the barriers that are blocking your personal fulfillment and productivity in life. Learn to order your steps so you can skillfully tackle the obstacles to healthy living by consciously choosing to use the traits of self-discipline and faith to achieve your goals (see Appendix 1Q). Hope accompanied by your free-will decision to change will provide you with the boundaries you need to align your thoughts, emotions, and behavior so you can attain the goal(s) that you are aiming to reach. Decide to trade unproductive routines for new, intentional habits that align with your goals by understanding and pushing through the uncertainty associated with the change process (Appendix 1P).
The information used in this program was compiled from secular psychologists, the Holy Bible, and select authors to show you how to master the art of self-management in a social world by staying full of God. The goal of this site is to encourage readers to freely choose to maintain a Christian psycho-social balance so you can avoid the pitfalls of living in a culture that promotes individualism and instant gratification but results in disillusionment and emptiness (Upenieks, L. (2023). When you freely choose the Triune Christian God as your final authority, you'll show it by letting His Word impact not only your thoughts, but your attitude and behavior too.
A free will decision sparks a passion, a drive, that energizes your journey through life. By reading the inspired words of the Holy Christian Bible your perception changes. This shifts your attitude and generates the momentum you need to make a lifestyle change that will not only pull you through the recovery phase of your addiction, but it propels you into a new normal (Titus 2:11-14, Ephesians 4:22-24, Philippians 4:6-7, Appendix 1L). Choosing to make room in your life for the Triune Christian God will result in a calm, confident and content life.
It's the feeling of gratitude, the vision of a knowledgeable hope, and the action of trusting God that motivates and strengthens you to change your behavior (Jeremiah 9:23-25, John 17:3, 10:14, Matthew 13:44-47). Trusting God is seen through your choice to use His grace as you train your body to incorporate the principles of the Christian faith into your daily life (2 Timothy 2:15, Galatians 5:13, John 8:31-32, 10:10, 14:27, Isaiah 27:3). The Apostle Paul uses images of a soldier’s sense of duty, an athlete’s adherence to the rules, and a farmer’s dedication to the cyclical work of producing crops to describe believers in Jesus Christ as having the grace to bear all things along the way towards goal achievement so that you win the prize (Philippians 3:14, 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, 13:4-7, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, 1 Timothy 1:16, Galatians 6:1-5). Hope in God can shift your view from a darkened and intense perspective of trying to figure out how to overcome an addictive lifestyle to an authentic and cheerful disposition that motivates you to complete your recovery phase so you can move on to a new normal lifestyle (Nehemiah 8:10, John 10:10, https://www.gotquestions.org/Damascus-Road.html). Open the door to a new life by responding to the call to follow the Christian God.
Choose to Maintain the Christian Psycho-Social Balance
Your personal relationships are a training ground for the resiliency you need to flourish in this world because the feedback you get pinpoints your Christian psycho-social balance. As you grow, you learn that with guidance from God's Word and feedback from like minded, Christian, friends you can manage your own needs by setting realistic expectations and boundaries for attaining and maintaining your well-being. Achieving the Christian Psychosocial balance is a lifelong progress that grows from your ever-increasing faith. (Faith not measured by size but by your integrity.) A mature Christian willingly shifts their mindset and habits away from worldly principles, finds a social group who shares this goal, and intentionally applies God’s Truth and Wisdom consistently and progressively as you journey through life.
Practicing Christian cognitive consistency brings you peace instead of anxiety because when you out this mindset you act from a position of confidence, not insecurity (Hosea 6:3, Nehemiah 8:10, Psalm 37:3-6, John 17:3, 1 John 2:4, Matthew 5:16). Recognize, appreciate and enjoy the freedom of living with a fresh perspective that's built on God's truth, justice, mercy and grace and your expression of faith (the Holy Spirit in you). As you explore the concepts involved in building the Christian Psycho-social balance, you will find hope - an unwavering, enduring and contagious hope, that sustains a new normal lifestyle lived compassionately and without unhealthy dependencies (1 Peter 1:3-6, 2 Corinthians 4:7-10, Colossians 3:12-17, Ephesians 4:1-3).
“We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”.
Will Durant
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ShinE brightly despite cultural trends
(Romans 11:6, 12:12, John 14:6, Deuteronomy 32:4, Isaiah 61:8, 2 Timothy 1:7, 1 Corinthians 15:58).
God
Subject Overview
The picture below is a topical overview of the CYNN program.
God is the great physician who writes only one prescription for Humanity - Transformative Love, becoming a new creation in and through Christ Jesus. God’s medicine (the Word) heals a wounded heart and makes personal transformation possible as shown in your sound state of mind and confident actions. Adapting the Christian world view (choosing a Godly perspective to frame your decisions directing your behavior to reveal Christ in you) frees you to see yourself and others in a way that breaks unhealthy addictions and anxiety. Your willingness to accept the unconditional love of God energizes you to persist through the temporary discomfort associated with the change process. When you allow the truth and love of God to penetrate your heart and mind, your decision to trust Him sets transformation in motion. Your A-attitude shines through your B-behavior (Holy Spirit-D infused power) so you can break through the physical and emotional strongholds of worldly thinking and unproductive habits (C-consequences), freeing you to live a life of love, achieving Eternal Excellence (E ) both now and forever (1 Corinthians 13:13).
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Read the Introduction tab for a review of the concepts used within this website to position you to defeat destructive addictions.
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You can read the CYNN program like an eBook from the start to finish. However, if you are searching for a particular subject you want to read, simply look at the Table of Contents page
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CHRISTIAN COGNITIVE CONSISTENCY
Having integrity to God means that you incorporate God’s wisdom into your ABC’s and, as a result, you realize how to live in peace with God, man and yourself (Proverbs 1:1-7, 3:13, Psalm 1, Philippians 3:14). This is the result of coming to know and trust the Christian God. (You get to know God through your spiritual disciplines (led by your soul) but your heart learns to trust God - and trust is an observed action). Love never fails because God is love and when you are in sync with Him, you can push away your secular feelings of fear and doubt (1 Corinthians 13:8, 1 John 4:16-18, 2 Corinthians 10:4). Instead of worry, you keep hope alive by focusing on the Word and rehearsing victory in your mind while following God’s ways in your soul and body (Hebrews 6:19, 4:1, 11, 1 Peter 1:3). We can never predict how God will work in our lives, but He will work it out for our good and His glory, in His timing, when you stay the course by standing firm and being unwavering in your faith (Philippians 1:27-28, Hebrews 13:21, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Romans 8:28).
Using a long-term goal like Eternal Life to shape your daily actions leads and strengthens you to implement intentional decisions that are consistent with this goal, despite the negative feedback you may get from the opinions of the non believing public sector (John 17:3, 10:10, Ephesians 1:13-14, Matthew 23:1-23). Whether or not you choose to trust God to guide you through the up's and down's of this life will correlate to the amount of peace you experience in everyday life, which is dependent on whom you look to as your highest authority in life and the strength of your integrity (Psalm 27:11, John 14:25-26, 16:33, Galatians 5:16, Ephesians 4:30, Philippians 4:6-7).
Program Components
The components in the CYNN program provide you with reading material and worksheets that will help you plan and strategize ways to achieve the vision
of your new normal lifestyle.
