Bible study plans on addiction and the people you love
6 guided plans that work through addiction and the people you love, a day at a time. Free to read, or follow along in the Bible Chat app.
- 7 days
When They Don't Understand
You are fighting the hardest battle of your life - and the people closest to you don't see it. The gap between your inner world and what others observe can feel like a chasm, and the loneliness of being misunderstood in your struggle is its own kind of pain. This 7-day Bible study is for the person whose recovery feels invisible to those around them. From the neuroscience of empathy gaps to the God who perceives your thoughts from afar, it helps you find your footing in a recovery that does not depend on being understood by everyone - because you are fully known by the One who matters most.
- 7 days
Boundaries That Protect
Recovery doesn't happen in a vacuum. The people around you - even the ones who love you - can become unwitting obstacles to your healing if you do not establish the limits that keep you safe. Setting those limits is not selfish. It is faithful. This 7-day Bible study walks you through the practical and spiritual work of building healthy boundaries in recovery - from the people who pull you back to the environments that activate old patterns. Rooted in Scripture and shaped by wisdom, it will help you protect the healing God is doing in you before it gets quietly undermined.
- 7 days
How to Ask for Help
Asking for help is one of the most important and most difficult things a person in addiction can do. Everything in the addicted brain resists it - the shame, the self-reliance, the fear of what people will think. But no one recovers alone, and the willingness to reach out is often the turning point between staying stuck and finding the way through. This 7-day Bible study guides you through what it actually takes to ask for help - dismantling the barriers, reclaiming humility, and finding in Scripture a God who does not wait to be impressed before he responds.
- 7 days
Forgiving Yourself
You can believe God forgives you and still refuse to forgive yourself. That refusal feels like accountability - but it is actually a prison, built from shame and self-punishment that no amount of suffering will ever unlock. This 7-day Bible study takes on the hardest forgiveness in recovery: the kind directed inward. Moving through confession, the cross, identity in Christ, and the daily practice of new mercy, it dismantles the theological and emotional barriers that keep people trapped in their own past. The verdict has already been spoken over your life. This study will help you begin to live like it.
- 7 days
Loving an Addict
You love someone who is trapped, and some days it feels like you are trapped with them. The fear, the grief, the hope that keeps getting shattered - it is all real, and it deserves to be named. This 7-day Bible study is for the spouse, the parent, the sibling, the friend who loves someone caught in addiction and doesn't know how to survive their own heart in the process. From enabling to boundaries, from the long wait to the prayers that feel unanswered - it walks with you through what it costs to love someone through the worst, and what God offers you in the middle of it.
- 7 days
Rebuilding Broken Trust
Addiction breaks trust. It lies, conceals, and disappoints the people who loved most - often repeatedly, over years. And when recovery comes, the question of trust is still there: how do you rebuild what was destroyed? How do you show people who have been hurt that something is genuinely different? This 7-day Bible study walks you through the slow, honest, often painful work of rebuilding trust - with the people you love, with yourself, and with the God who never stopped believing you were worth the restoration. There is no shortcut. But there is a real path forward.
