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Recovery is for anyone.

Amy
Recovery is real.

Farhia Budul
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
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
Too many lies and too much pride, / But from the truth, even with their masks, they cannot hide.

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

Leanna Woodhouse
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
It is the little things, you know. If it weren't for making a point to recognize the little things and finding purpose in helping people, I probably wouldn't be here, and not here as in work. I wouldn't be here at all, as in on this Earth.

Kandi Workman
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 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 am proud of who I have become. I am proud of being an active member of society. I have a job now. I’ve served meals at the city mission as a reminder of where I don’t want to put myself again.

Anonymous
If I didn’t share my story for the next person who was walking in my shoes, people might forget to dream, to have hope, to have friends. I used to push everybody out. Now, I want those things.

Anonymous
My five-year-old son looked at me and said, “Mommy, you’re doing great. I’m proud of you.”

Anonymous
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

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Recovery is for anyone.

Recovery is real.

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.

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.

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

Too many lies and too much pride, / But from the truth, even with their masks, they cannot hide.

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

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.

It is the little things, you know. If it weren't for making a point to recognize the little things and finding purpose in helping people, I probably wouldn't be here, and not here as in work. I wouldn't be here at all, as in on this Earth.

That week, down in the lower forty / we all got born again. / It was hard to say who saved who.

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.

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.

I am proud of who I have become. I am proud of being an active member of society. I have a job now. I’ve served meals at the city mission as a reminder of where I don’t want to put myself again.

If I didn’t share my story for the next person who was walking in my shoes, people might forget to dream, to have hope, to have friends. I used to push everybody out. Now, I want those things.

My five-year-old son looked at me and said, “Mommy, you’re doing great. I’m proud of you.”

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.

There’s not a magic number with recovery. Recovery’s a daily thing.

Life’s about love, and I feel like that’s what I’ve looked for my whole life. And I found it here.

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