This One Voice
There is a Better Way to Live…
This One Voice offers a Pathway to Emotional Sobriety and Spiritual Maturity
Would Your Life be Brighter if…
Would your life be brighter if the voices that governed your thinking were more positive and encouraging rather than negative and discouraging?
What if you were able to set healthy boundaries with family, friends, and co-workers; and not feel guilty about it?
Wouldn’t you like to enjoy healthy, mature, and gratifying relationships; rather than living in chaos?
Now imagine ~ that there is a Solution that could change the way you think, the way you feel, and the way you behave. Imagine, if you can, that there is a Better Way to Live.
A pathway to emotional sobriety and spiritual maturity, where we can direct our lives in a way that we never have before.
Although we cannot change our circumstances overnight, we certainly can change our direction.
This One Voice is a program that educates and equips individuals to overcome the negative effects of a dysfunctional family dynamic by helping to meet the emotional and spiritual needs of the individual.
In Emotional Sobriety, we no longer want to be attached to, nor addicted to, certain patterns of thinking that hold us back from loving ourselves and others.
In Spiritual Maturity, the voice of God Is spoken into our lives and we become equipped to become that voice in the lives of others.
In the midst of life’s noise, we listen to This One Voice: God our Father, who does not shame or abandon us, for we are the pinnacle of his creation and the very object of his affection.
Changing the way we think, we can dramatically change the direction of our lives.
Direction Determines Destiny!
A person’s destiny is far more powerful than their wounds. We believe that God our Father will transform our weaknesses and that we will bloom in the fruit of His Spirit.
You Are Not Alone
We're in this TogetherAccording to the Center of Disease Control studies on Adverse Childhood Experiences:
- One in five American girls under the age of 18 have been molested, along with one in twelve boys (those are the cases reported)
- One in four American children have been beaten to the point of marks being visible
- One in three couples engage in physical violence
- A quarter of us have been raised with alcoholic or addicted caregivers
- One in eight American children have witnessed their mother being abused
Those of us who experience this trauma in childhood utilize certain “survival traits” that served us well in childhood, but make us odd in adulthood. These “traits” become our safety net whenever we feel threatened, even though no threat may exist.
We believe in This One Voice that through counseling, the twelve steps, and coaching that we can live life with confidence and a brighter soul. This shift in being allows us to live without the safety net, therefore making better decisions and enjoying healthier relationships. And through this process we can improve the lives of others.
We believe that it is possible to hear a different voice and conduct our lives in a healthy and productive way. We believe that there is a Better Way to Live.
You Can Heal and
Move from Victim to VictorJoin our Weekly Support Meetings
This One Voice Offers Weekly Zoom Meetings.
In 2020, when the world was hit by the global pandemic, the New Jersey meetings moved online. With the rapid expansion of attendees, we grew to become a global audience! Now the group only meets virtually, over Zoom on Tuesdays at 6:30pm EST.
thisonevoice@yahoo.com
Send us a message and we’ll reply with a Zoom meeting invite.
Inspiring Messages with Terence Sikoryak
Testimonials
For years, I struggled with my relationship with my beloved daughter, always thinking she was to blame. A victim mentality kept me from not being able to see my part. Through working the steps and most of all seeking Christ through the process, I’ve been able to own my part and see that my pride was an obstacle. Humility, keeping my mouth shut more, and prayer have been the focus of my journey. Also, listening to others experience, strength, and hope has made a huge difference in developing more self-confidence and knowing how much I am loved by God!
For many years I lived as “the victim” as it brought me attention. I didn’t have to own my part of the struggle or difficult situation. This One Voice has been an incredible tool to help me see the power of faith with works! I’ve worked diligently in this program and in everyday life. I have exposed my character defects to either eradicate them with God’s help or for them to be used to help others. Helping others has transformed me from the selfish woman I once was. At one point, I left This One Voice to do work solely in AA. Discovering a few years later that I needed the spiritual aspect that This One Voice offers. I’m a lifer in working on the generational traits that were passed down. I know this work is breaking the roots of dysfunction for my grandkids and future great grandchildren. One of my grandkids is asking for help for their OCD. Most people aren’t willing to own or work on their defects. This is a sign to me of generational dysfunction breakdown!
I am a completely different person. I no longer want to be that person. I am now free to be the me that God made.
This weekly meeting is making a huge difference in my life. I used to feel like an island– believing I was alone in the world with life-altering childhood and family dysfunction. It was so painful to believe this, but I did. In order to function, I convinced myself that I was strong and resilient – a survivor. All the while numbing and stuffing my feelings. It was a dead end road and eventually everything fell apart. Some call this hitting bottom.
When I began coming to the weekly meetings, I discovered and met hundreds of other adult children of alcoholics who shared variations of MY story. As I got to know fellow travelers, I realized that I had a very normal response to that kind of childhood.
Today, I’m learning how to think and live differently as I cope and recover in this lifelong healing journey. I have a newly found hope and trust in God, which helps me be a better person, a better wife, mother, and friend.
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About This One Voice founder Terence Sikoryak
This One Voice ministry began as a desperate pursuit of emotional healing. After the dissolution of my first marriage, I decided that there were things about me that had to change.
As an adult child of a dysfunctional family I came to realize that I was “…someone who responds to adult situations with self-doubt, self-blame, or a sense of being wrong or inferior- all learned from stages of childhood.” (Big Red Book)
Former Navy Seal Mark Devine, in his book Staring Down the Wolf, writes that we must come to terms with our past. Face our shadows. Devine says that we must Wake up, Grow up, and Clean up in order to Show up.
I needed to wake up to the way in which my past affects the way I think, how I feel and behave. It also affected my relationships and how I experienced God. And when I woke up, I needed to grow up and take personal responsibility for my life. Blaming and complaining get us nowhere. When we grow up, we face the character defects that sabotage our lives, and we work diligently to clean up our lives. I began on a road to recovery. Not a road that lead me to a new me or a cleaned version of the old me, but a journey that would reveal the Real Me. The real me that was distorted and protected by those character defects.
I found that after I woke up, grew up and cleaned up, I showed up in the world as an Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Mature person.
The road I took for this journey was the Twelve Steps, a pathway to Emotional Sobriety, and Spiritual Maturity.
As a result of this journey, I went from hurting to healing to helping, and the ministry This One Voice was birthed.
Get The Backpack!
In your digital backpack (no, we’re not sending you a real backpack) you’ll receive:
- How to Talk to Yourself
- ACA’s 12 Steps
- The Promises
- Invitation to This One Voice Weekly Meeting
Send us an email to get the backpack: thisonevoice@yahoo.com
Seasons of the Soul
A Daily Devotional by Terence Sikoryak
“Spring training is a time for hope! Every fan has a fresh new outlook on their team. It’s a new season, a clean slate, and everyone has a chance. Sure, there are favorites going into every season. But every fan knows that anything can happen. And that’s why we get excited about opening day. It’s a new lease on life. I love spring training. Baseball season is right around the corner. My team, the San Francisco Giants, have a new beginning. Wouldn’t it be great if life were like that? Wouldn’t you get excited about a new beginning? Well, the Apostle Paul says “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creature; the old things have passed away; behold , new things have come. Now all things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation” 2 Corinthians 5:17-18 NASB
That sounds great doesn’t it? You can be a new creation with a new heart, and a new nature. Life in the Spirit means a whole new season. It’s a significant breakthrough in the destination of your life.”