Prodigal Sons & Daughters, Inc.

Dealing with addiction, whether in your life or the life of someone you know, is often difficult and perplexing.  To be effective requires knowledge and a well-developed plan.  Call us so that we can help you begin this process today.

You may also find the following resources helpful:

Useful Web Sites

• National Institute on Drug Abuse (General Information)
• NIDA for Teens (Great Site for Teens to Check Out)
• SAMHSA (General Information)
• Recovery Happens (Good Information from a Counseling Center in Sacramento)
• Maynords Rehab in Tuolumne, CA 
  
• Recovery Modesto (great information about local recovery services)
• Friends are good medicine (this is a great local resource for recovery related services)
  

The Addictive Cycle

As we lose more and more of ourselves to our addiction, our pleasure decreases.  Moments of relief are replaced by lingering shame.  We are afraid of being discovered.  In turn, we resolve to quit, or to make amends for our failures, hoping it will lessen our feelings of guilt and shame, but it never does.

We may have temporarily swept our lives clean of the addiction and its unpleasant feelings, but nothing has replaced it.  As a result, we are more acutely aware of our emptiness.  Feelings of disillusionment and despair set in, and once again we begin to demand relief.  Our demand for relief draws us back into the familiar arms of our habit.

This cycle is played out again and again with deepening levels of dissatisfaction, disillusionment, despair and enslavement.  

At Prodigal Sons & Daughters, we are committed to helping people break this destructive cycle.  We have seen countless lives radically restored from places of deep pain and dysfunction to health and freedom.

The 12 Steps

Step One: We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors and that our lives had become unmanageable.

Step Two: Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Step Three: Made a decision to turn our life and will over to the care of God.

Step Four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Step Five: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Step Six: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Step Seven: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

Step Eight: Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

Step Nine: Made direct amends wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others.

Step Ten: Continued to take a personal inventory of ourselves and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

Step Eleven: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of his Will for us and the power to carry that out.

Step Twelve: Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.