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

Rachael, Aubrey, BaoBai Xiong, TC Yang, and Tialy Y.
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
I always wanted my music to help someone, and now I have that chance.

JG
I'm writing to let you know that you are not alone.

Leanna Woodhouse
I’m very transparent about what I’ve endured in life and the obstacles that I’ve overcome. I’m not ashamed of it. Everything that I’ve been through in life prepared me for who I am today and who I’m going to be.

Keira Moore Majeed
There’s a lot of freedom in knowing that I can get up, function and get through my day without having to rely on having something or enough of something to be able to make it through the day. That, to me, is true freedom, and I am thankful for it every single day. We do recover.

Cassidy
The biggest thing that I've learned in my recovery is that everything I've done, the good, the bad, the ugly and the in-between, has got me where I'm at right now.

Bailey
I never thought I could have a life happy without drugs, but I very much do. I really got down to what makes me, me. I truly found myself and learned how to be happy in my own skin.

DeShawna Hatcher

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm writing to let you know that you are not alone.

I’m very transparent about what I’ve endured in life and the obstacles that I’ve overcome. I’m not ashamed of it. Everything that I’ve been through in life prepared me for who I am today and who I’m going to be.

There’s a lot of freedom in knowing that I can get up, function and get through my day without having to rely on having something or enough of something to be able to make it through the day. That, to me, is true freedom, and I am thankful for it every single day. We do recover.

The biggest thing that I've learned in my recovery is that everything I've done, the good, the bad, the ugly and the in-between, has got me where I'm at right now.

I never thought I could have a life happy without drugs, but I very much do. I really got down to what makes me, me. I truly found myself and learned how to be happy in my own skin.

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