DiscoverWhat We Really Want: Conversations About Connection43 | John Steakley: You Point to Your Limp
43 | John Steakley: You Point to Your Limp

43 | John Steakley: You Point to Your Limp

Update: 2025-08-05
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People walking through the wilderness of addiction can have a hard time finding places that feel truly safe to open up. Yet authentic connection is the key to freedom from addiction. One of the things that gives the safety people seek is a person who chooses to be open about their own "limp," not hiding from their personal failures. 

John Steakley is that kind of person. Since walking through his own addictive struggle with alcohol, John has been using that experience to help hundreds of others find hope as they seek to walk out of that same wilderness. John is the founder and Executive Director of Unbound Grace Ministries, a support & counseling ministry helping people who have found themselves trapped in unhealthy relationships with alcohol and other substances.  

John talks about the importance of providing safe healing space by how we are vulnerable with our own struggles (pointing to our limp). Pointing to our own limp also helps us and others remember that it's not about us or what we can do... our limp also points to God, the "Power greater than ourselves," who desires to restore us to the lives we were meant to live. 

John has written a book, also titled Unbound Grace. He lives in Birmingham AL with his family.

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43 | John Steakley: You Point to Your Limp

43 | John Steakley: You Point to Your Limp

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