Stories
tagged with: Faith
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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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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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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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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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Recovery has to be real. You can feel it, you can see it, you can experience it. Recovery is my life today and, hopefully, for the rest of my life.
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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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I want to let people know that there is hope after dope.
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One day at a time. I’m powerless in this life but I have found a power beyond all understanding.
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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.
