Stories tagged with: Rehabilitation
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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 -
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 -
Once I found a treatment program, all that went away. And this is the truth. If I wouldn't have got the answer on the other side of the phone, I wouldn't be sitting here today.
John -
Because we’re all human beings, and we all need help one way or another.
Chris -
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 -
In the time that I was there all of a sudden there was a change. / No longer did I feel trapped or in a daily agonizing pain. / The misery and depression, the loneliness and fear / No longer controlled my thoughts, no longer whispered in my ear.
Burton P -
Memories foggy swirls my head / My cold-hearted reality / Thanks God for narcan's society
Randy Pine -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I was really resistant at first, not listening to anything or trying anything another way, but I have acceptance today. I have worked on my anger issues. I’m more responsible today. I am active in all the programs I’m in. I feel like I’ve come a long way from nine months ago when I first got down here.
Brittany Hughes -
Yes it affected me, but it did not break me.
Olivia Marie -
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 -
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’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 -
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
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