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Recovery is for anyone.

Amy
Recovery has given my life back.

Randy Anderson
Recovery is real.

Farhia Budul
A friend once taught me a word and it's my favorite: Ineffable—too sacred to be described in words. My life is unbelievable. It's just unbelievable.

Gillian
Now I’m teaching other people how to share their story for purpose. I’m teaching them how to testify in committees. I’m teaching them how to organize in their communities.

JoAnna
Something shakes me back from the dead

Randy Pine
Disorder is at the end of time's arrow, unless we can find the strength to take a different path.

Caleb Vera
I am about to celebrate six months sober. I am the best parent I’ve been to my children in all their lives.

Eric
My life is amazing. It's not perfect, but it's amazing because I'm no longer bound by my substances. My worst day now is a million times better than my best day before, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Kenny Matthews
The goal of recovery is to get to this vista, this viewpoint at the top of the mountain where you get there and then enjoy the view.

Dave
Once I found a treatment program, all that went away. And this is the truth. If I wouldn't have got the answer on the other side of the phone, I wouldn't be sitting here today.

John
Without forgiveness, we cannot move on. Lack of forgiveness inhibits change.

Rachael, Aubrey, BaoBai Xiong, TC Yang, and Tialy Y.
Because we’re all human beings, and we all need help one way or another.

Chris
With recovery, anything becomes possible.

Maddy R. and BK
She told me everything that happened, and she said, “I’m done. I don’t wanna do this no more. Will you come home?”

Bruce Marshall
Fearlessly flipping and somersaulting above the earth, I am breathless, unencumbered by time and restraint. I sway like a leaf caught in a winding autumn breeze as he takes charge of his hands trembling with fieriness beneath the weight of my fragile body.

E. J. Wade
Those people only became bees buzzing in my ear. I had bigger fish to fry. Nope, this lady wasn't going to get entangled in some fly trap guilt trip they were setting out. Opinions didn't matter; I was looking out for my kid's future.

Leann Baisden
In the time that I was there all of a sudden there was a change. / No longer did I feel trapped or in a daily agonizing pain. / The misery and depression, the loneliness and fear / No longer controlled my thoughts, no longer whispered in my ear.

Burton P
Now I am going to graduate school, which is something I could not have done without my sobriety.

Veronica
I always wanted my music to help someone, and now I have that chance.

JG

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Recovery is for anyone.

Recovery has given my life back.

Recovery is real.

A friend once taught me a word and it's my favorite: Ineffable—too sacred to be described in words. My life is unbelievable. It's just unbelievable.

Now I’m teaching other people how to share their story for purpose. I’m teaching them how to testify in committees. I’m teaching them how to organize in their communities.

Something shakes me back from the dead

Disorder is at the end of time's arrow, unless we can find the strength to take a different path.

I am about to celebrate six months sober. I am the best parent I’ve been to my children in all their lives.

My life is amazing. It's not perfect, but it's amazing because I'm no longer bound by my substances. My worst day now is a million times better than my best day before, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

The goal of recovery is to get to this vista, this viewpoint at the top of the mountain where you get there and then enjoy the view.

Once I found a treatment program, all that went away. And this is the truth. If I wouldn't have got the answer on the other side of the phone, I wouldn't be sitting here today.

Without forgiveness, we cannot move on. Lack of forgiveness inhibits change.

Because we’re all human beings, and we all need help one way or another.

With recovery, anything becomes possible.

She told me everything that happened, and she said, “I’m done. I don’t wanna do this no more. Will you come home?”

Fearlessly flipping and somersaulting above the earth, I am breathless, unencumbered by time and restraint. I sway like a leaf caught in a winding autumn breeze as he takes charge of his hands trembling with fieriness beneath the weight of my fragile body.

Those people only became bees buzzing in my ear. I had bigger fish to fry. Nope, this lady wasn't going to get entangled in some fly trap guilt trip they were setting out. Opinions didn't matter; I was looking out for my kid's future.

In the time that I was there all of a sudden there was a change. / No longer did I feel trapped or in a daily agonizing pain. / The misery and depression, the loneliness and fear / No longer controlled my thoughts, no longer whispered in my ear.

Now I am going to graduate school, which is something I could not have done without my sobriety.

I always wanted my music to help someone, and now I have that chance.

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