SFT Awareness

Make Journaling a Tool

One of the tools that is encouraged to use in learning to processing emotional pain and in the recovery process is journaling. Journals can be a great tool for identifying pain events, seeing patterns in destructive behaviors, and tracking progress. However, people are often unsure on what to write in ...

Be Prepared to HALT

By Gary Washer As an Eagle Scout I am constantly bringing up some of the principles I learned in the Boy Scouts. One of them that I bring up often is the Scout motto that says Be Prepared. One place this can be applied to is the SFT processing step ...

New class in Rome Georgia

Dave Rewitzer is starting a Removing Emotional Pain class this Wednesday on November 30. It will be held at SOW INC at 404 broad St. in Rome, GA. The class begins at 6:00 p.m., is free, and runs through January 25. Please contact Dave with any questions about this workshop ...

New Class Starting in December

A new class on Removing Emotional Pain is starting the first Sunday in December at Meridianville church of Christ in Meridianville, AL. The class starts 9:00 a.m. on December 4, 2011 and lasts through February 26, 2012. Each class is 45 minutes and is free to attend. Topics will include ...

Book review: The Last Addiction

by Gary Washer Many people in the world struggle with some type of addiction, whether it is anger, sex, substances, or work. Many of these same people play a game with themselves. They will tell themselves things like, “I will stop this time.” They may make an effort to go to ...

Alcohol Addiction (sure)…. Drug Addiction (understood) …. Pornography Addiction (really?)

by Ed Farough When someone hears of alcohol addiction, or drug addiction, there is a modern understanding that a person has become addicted physiologically to a mind altering substance through usage over a lengthy time period. People see the reality that someone can reach a point in which their need ...

Quarterly Update from SFT - July 2011

This has been an exciting past three months for SFT Awareness. We have come so far in working with new participants, adding new trainers to the ministry and achieving the goals we set for this ministry. With help and guidance from the Lord, this ministry continues to move forward in ...

Heaven’s Reward Fallacy (part 2)

Everyone on this earth will go through hurtful events at some point in their lives. There is no way around this fact. So often people have distorted thinking towards these different events because of using thinking errors. One of these common thinking errors is the Heaven’s Reward Fallacy which is ...

Quarterly Update - March 2011

These last several months have been very busy for SFT Awareness here in the states. Several of our goals have been met and we have added a few as well. We have performed two classes in the middle Tennessee area, one at Kingwood Heights church of Christ in Murfreesboro and ...

Making a Difference on the Other Side of the World

In September 2010, I started a journey to Malaysia to join my wife. Her company transferred her to help start a new office in the city of Kuala Lumpur. I took this opportunity to help spread God's message of peace.