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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’m learning to live life on life’s terms again.

Amy
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.

Steven
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
I have a choice today and, ultimately, though, I have hope today.

Brian
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
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.

Jerome
Recovery has given me a life I never dreamed I could have.

Emily
Invest. Give. Live.

K. L.
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
I want to let people know that there is hope after dope.

Ty P.
One day at a time. I’m powerless in this life but I have found a power beyond all understanding.

Travis
If I see one difference in the community I think the biggest difference I see is that we’re talking recovery.

Terry
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.

Susan
Though at times it hurts me to reflect, I am grateful I ended our sickening romance.

Wis
I think the recovery community helped me a lot. And I think that going to 12-step meetings helped me a lot. But then I think there came a point where I needed more than that, and so I sought psychiatric help.

Garrett
We share with one another our triumphs and burdens, our thoughts and feelings— each of us, ultimate weapons for recovery.

Elijah
He wasn’t perfect – neither am I, but he was a genuinely good man and I grew to love him.

Cynthia

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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’m learning to live life on life’s terms again.

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.

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.

I have a choice today and, ultimately, though, I have hope today.

As of today I’ve been clean 4 days.

I wouldn’t change my past for anything because it’s made me the woman I am today.

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.

Recovery has given me a life I never dreamed I could have.

Invest. Give. Live.

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.

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.

I want to let people know that there is hope after dope.

One day at a time. I’m powerless in this life but I have found a power beyond all understanding.

If I see one difference in the community I think the biggest difference I see is that we’re talking recovery.

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.

Though at times it hurts me to reflect, I am grateful I ended our sickening romance.

I think the recovery community helped me a lot. And I think that going to 12-step meetings helped me a lot. But then I think there came a point where I needed more than that, and so I sought psychiatric help.

We share with one another our triumphs and burdens, our thoughts and feelings— each of us, ultimate weapons for recovery.

He wasn’t perfect – neither am I, but he was a genuinely good man and I grew to love him.

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