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You can’t lift anybody up by putting them down because they already feel that way. They need to know they are worth it. They are worthy.

Edna
I can say that my recovery family is amazing and very supportive. And I know that if I continue to do the next right thing, that’s the best thing I can do to build back the relationships that I damaged so much in the past.

Amber
This program has given me a lot back, and God has been looking out for me.

Anonymous
I guess I’ve figured out that I can achieve whatever I want if I put the work into it. I’ve just continued working hard to try to get my life on track.

Anonymous
There’s not a magic number with recovery. Recovery’s a daily thing.

Cece
I've now achieved seven years in recovery and it has been a major blessing beyond anything I could've imagined when I was hopeless—drowning in despair, guilt, and shame. I began feeling peace, hope, and pure joy. The changes I experienced fueled a desire of giving hope and sharing with others the miracle of recovery that God blessed me with.

Karen Dominick
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

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You can’t lift anybody up by putting them down because they already feel that way. They need to know they are worth it. They are worthy.

I can say that my recovery family is amazing and very supportive. And I know that if I continue to do the next right thing, that’s the best thing I can do to build back the relationships that I damaged so much in the past.

This program has given me a lot back, and God has been looking out for me.

I guess I’ve figured out that I can achieve whatever I want if I put the work into it. I’ve just continued working hard to try to get my life on track.

There’s not a magic number with recovery. Recovery’s a daily thing.

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.

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.

We have to share our stories; even if it helps one, it’s worth it.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As of today I’ve been clean 4 days.

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