#971 The Fix: Why the 12 Steps Might Just Change Your Life with Ian Morgan Cron

Revelation Wellness - Healthy & Whole

Alisa Keeton

Health & Fitness, Healthandwellness, Faithbasedfitness, Christianfitness, Christianmeditation, Religion & Spirituality, Spiritualgrowth, Christianinterviews, Biblicalmeditation

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Best-selling author, therapist, and priest Ian Morgan Cron is with Alisa today to share his powerful story of overcoming addiction (not once but twice) and why he's passionate about the Gospel message in the 12-step program.

Whether it's food addiction, compulsive control, or any attachment we use to escape discomfort, Ian shares why we need to normalize conversations about addiction. This conversation isn't just about alcohol or drug addiction; it's a message for us all—because we're all addicted to something (and often more than one thing). The good news is that the 12-step program is designed for daily living and can be used by anyone. You'll hear how following the steps daily has transformed his life and can bless yours, too!

You can contact Ian, purchase his new book, The Fix, and get his assessment mentioned in the show [here].

Quoteworthy: "Your addiction may be more socially acceptable, but that doesn't make it any less spiritually damaging than the person addicted to alcohol."

Are you ready to get into a community working through food and body addiction? Learn more about our RW+ Membership and Food and Body Addiction Group here [link].

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0:00.0	Hey friends, welcome to the Revelation Wellness podcast. My name is Elisa Keaton, the founder
0:06.8	of Revelation Wellness, and the host for today's show. Today, perk your ears up if you struggle
0:14.3	to know what's right to do and do it. Maybe you don't struggle to know it, but you struggle to do it. Or maybe both.
0:23.0	Either way. We have the best-selling author, psychotherapist, Enneagram teacher, Episcopal
0:30.9	Priest recovering addict, Ian Morgan Cron. You wouldn't think that last word or definition of recovering addict to go with Ian, but it does.
0:44.6	I didn't know this, y'all.
0:45.8	Last time he was on the show, he wrote a great book.
0:48.6	We interviewed him.
0:49.5	And then right after that, he had a relapse.
0:52.6	He's been in recovery since 1987, but he had a relapse. And I just
0:57.4	love that someone as well known as Ian, as successful as Ian, hit kind of a zeitgeist moment
1:05.6	in culture with the information on the Enneogram that he so shares so well, that he had a tough time.
1:15.1	He had what we would call maybe a fall from grace.
1:19.4	And he was resilient and came back with a message.
1:24.1	I'll tell you what, if life begins, comes messy, make a message. Make a message because God is there in it with you.
1:32.2	So this is a great story. He has written his latest book called The Fix, How the Twelve Steps,
1:37.6	offer a surprising path of transformation for the well-adjusted, the down and out, and everyone in between.
1:45.9	So we talk about addiction.
1:50.9	Oh, his definition of addiction, it's going to stay with me. It's going to stay with me. I don't want a spoiler alert, but you need to listen up to what he says is addiction. Also, he talks about
1:57.0	we need to democratize the 12 steps. We won't get through all steps today, but he's going to
2:02.6	really focus on the top three. And you're also going to see how the gospel lines up with 12 steps.
2:08.6	If you are in our food and body addiction group, we meet every Thursday night at 7 p.m. Eastern
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