Stories tagged with: Audio
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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 -
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 -
I always wanted my music to help someone, and now I have that chance.
JG -
Write it down. Dig fossils, / open graves, take up / the blanched eye of grief. / Slam doors. Plant flowers. Grow. / Who are you now? / Make a list. Write it down.
Kari Gunter-Seymour -
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 -
That week, down in the lower forty / we all got born again. / It was hard to say who saved who.
Kari Gunter-Seymour -
It does not matter whether someone is in active addiction or recovery or some of the bad things. They are still people. They have feelings. Whenever you give people the time and the room and the safety nets to get into recovery, most will.
Jamie -
I’ve gained so much back, and I’m just really grateful for it.
Jenn -
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 -
I’m still growing, but I do not fight addiction anymore. It’s been conquered in the blood of Jesus and through my testimony.
Paul Bell -
I just feel like anything you go through in addiction can be overcome with recovery. They always say that your best day in addiction is still worse than your worst day in recovery, because it’s still a bad day. And I had to forgive myself, I had to ask for forgiveness from others, but you can overcome it and everything does get better.
Brook -
Every day someone is at the point they are ready for help, and I want to be that person there to guide them, walk with them, hold their hand and be their shoulder—whatever they need, I want to be that in their life.
Lisa -
There’s not a magic number with recovery. Recovery’s a daily thing.
CeCe -
Life’s about love, and I feel like that’s what I’ve looked for my whole life. And I found it here.
Nicki May -
I have so much freedom in my life today, and I'm genuinely happy. I'm able to be a mom. I'm able to be a friend. I'm able to be a girlfriend. I'm able to be a daughter, a sister, a niece, a granddaughter; I'm able to be all of those things today. And if it wasn't for God, and the fellowship of AA, and these steps and my sponsor and everything, I wouldn't have all of this.
Jessica S. -
I guess the best thing I can do is lead by example. Keep changing for the better more and more every day, keep in contact with those people, and just try to lead by example, like I said, get them to make the right decisions, not because someone told them to but because they can see that there is a better way; that there is a light.
Bryce C. -
We have a lot of guys in this program, past and present, who have spent their whole lives watching people avoid them, myself included. But it’s all changed now. People want to be around us. People want to hear our stories. People want our help today.
Michael Robinette
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