Jean Heaton

Jean Heaton is a blogger, writer, speaker, teacher, and a workshop and retreat leader. She is both the mother and the spouse of recovering addicts and has worked her own twelve-step program. Heaton is the author of Helping Families Recover from Addiction: Coping, Growing, and Healing through 12-Step Practices and Ignatian Spirituality. She is on the Pastoral Care Committee Board at Ignatian Ministries and the Board of Directors of the Ignatian Spirituality Project.
Helping Families Recover from Addiction by Jean Heaton

Jean's Book

  • Helping Families Recover from Addiction

Getting to Know Jesus at the Heart Level

This post is based on Week Four of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. When my husband and I first married, we moved over 500 miles away from our families in Kentucky...

Noticing My Stumbling Blocks

This post is based on Week Three of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. For five years I volunteered at the county jail, where I took a 12-step meeting to a small...

Waking Up to God in All Things

This post is based on Week Two of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. When I was expecting my oldest child almost 32 years ago, I remember noticing how many other women...

Experiencing God’s Love

This post is based on Week One of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. I found myself in a desperate situation just over ten years ago. During that time of struggle, a...