Stories
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God had healed me from this, and everything I’d tried, nothing amounted to that, and I was overwhelmed with the love and the grace that I had found in forgiveness.
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I never even imagined being married, but now I’m able to be a mom and be a wife and be a productive member of society and it’s because I was able to connect with people. I was able to build love for myself and experience things in a completely different reality than what I was before.
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Being involved in peer support groups—with people who knew exactly what it was like to work in a setting with access to medications—was the KEY for me to be able to get solid in my recovery.
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Each year, I've shared my story with my students and will continue to do so. It's a sad reality, but many of them personally know someone in active addiction. When I disclose my experience to them, they now know someone in recovery.
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You get sober to go do things and hang out and . . . to have a life.
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I had the resilience and strength to care and to try to work on myself, no matter how awful life is and how many times I've had a setback. It just really made me feel like getting sober wasn't a one-stop type of thing. You can try as many times as you have the strength to.
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Now, I can find those moments of peace all the time. When I’m riding bikes with my son, mowing the grass, fishing. All of this is possible because now I know who, what, and why I am.
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Recovery to me was not just about quitting drugs and alcohol. It was about finding a whole new way to live and fixing myself from the inside out.
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Learn about addiction and alcoholism. Learn about the history of it, and the approaches that our society have made over the centuries. See what failed, why it failed, and learn why the many pathways to recovery can work for you.
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But if there has been anything that’s saved me in the last few years and kept me clean, it’s been the perpetual process of being supplanted from a place, supplanted from a way of thinking, supplanted from a way of being and then being deposited into something or someplace new. A place full of the potential a person needs to have a real experience.
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You have to put the footwork in, and some days you’re just putting one foot in front of the other and praying. It is possible, we do recover, and we are worth it, every single body is worth it.
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I had to take a real hard look at myself, and who I was. And who I am today is not the same person that I was a year ago.
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As of today I’ve been clean 4 days.
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It’s a “we” program is what we call it. I tell people that if I was willing to get up every morning and call 20 people to get high, I better be willing to wake up and call 20 people to keep me sober. That’s how I hustle my recovery.
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Through my journey the most important lesson I can teach is that addicts are people too, we don’t need your pity, we don’t need you condolences, all we need is the love and support to help us get through our journey.
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If I see one difference in the community I think the biggest difference I see is that we’re talking recovery.
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I have watched you restore our community person by person and step by step. You are breathing life back into our state and its people.
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We share with one another our triumphs and burdens, our thoughts and feelings— each of us, ultimate weapons for recovery.
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He wasn’t perfect – neither am I, but he was a genuinely good man and I grew to love him.
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I’m not recovered. Nowhere near. But I wish I was. Maybe that counts a little.
