Stories tagged with: Self-Care
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I started out my recovery with service and carrying a message that an addict—any addict—can stop using drugs, can lose the desire to use, and find a new way to live. Today I’m really grateful for the opportunity to get to continue to carry that message into recovery homes: a light into darkness.
Jennie Hill -
Just by having faith and putting my all into it and doing what is uncomfortable, I’ve been able to have a life where I can help others that are also going through the same struggles as I am and have a family, and actually love my life and be happy about it.
Anna Holley -
I am a grateful recovering alcoholic and addict. That is not my identity today. Today, I'm a father. Today, I’m a husband. Today, I'm able to be a son to my mother and my father. I get to live life in a way that I’ve never been able to experience before.
Joe Young -
We have to share our stories; even if it helps one, it’s worth it.
Paula Settle -
What an honor it is to be able to say—and I tell my participants this all the time—I'm like: “I’m not going to tell you it ever gets easy, but it does get easier."
Charlotte -
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.
Ongeli -
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.
Brian -
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.
Jessica -
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.
Greg -
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.
P. G. McNabb -
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.
Christene -
For me to truly understand in my heart and know that recovery is real I think is more of a personal recognition of a difference in myself. And just to be surrounded by guys, their eyes open up, the light comes on, and they’re able to come up out of that same gutter that I was in.
Jason -
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.
ReAnna -
As of today I’ve been clean 4 days.
Ebony -
I wouldn’t change my past for anything because it’s made me the woman I am today.
Jill -
Fear, you can serve as the torch that illuminates my path of recovery. Recovery, in large part, has been about changing the nature of our relationship.
Andrew -
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.
ANON 3 -
Though at times it hurts me to reflect, I am grateful I ended our sickening romance.
Wis -
We share with one another our triumphs and burdens, our thoughts and feelings— each of us, ultimate weapons for recovery.
Elijah
