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It’s what I advise a lot of parents to do: it’s just the hardest thing that you can ever do—but if you want to save their lives it’s what you’ve got to do: it’s tough love.
Lori Meadows -
I strongly feel that people in recovery are heroes, and Greg was my hero.
Denise Hanson -
I think my place is in the meeting rooms. To hear somebody talk, to me, is to know that I'm not alone in this.
Kelly -
We do a lot of writing in recovery. But it serves a very, very positive purpose. The power of the pen is unmatched, okay? There's just no way around that.
Ryan Elkins -
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.
Cory Sargent -
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.
Hayley -
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.
Mitzi Averette -
And that treatment center showed me compassion and love, which in then turn I was able to show compassion and love. And from that point there was peace in my heart.
Drew O'Connell -
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.
Nick Roberts -
You get sober to go do things and hang out and . . . to have a life.
Ryan C. -
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 -
Recovery
Feagin -
Without poison my brain begins to open / expand in all directions like the finders of sea / anemone
Magdalene -
Immense joy radiates from my center / Out through my fingertips / Leaving behind a trail of goodness
Amelia Q. -
The birds were chirping, the fountains were flowing, I could still yet feel no emotion, but a sense of hope took root at the back of my brain and worked its way to my heart.
Samuel -
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
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