by Juggling The Jenkins | Oct 3, 2019 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
*TW: Language of self-harm* When I was younger I thought I lived a pretty normal life. I guess all kids think their lives are normal until they get old enough to really look around and see their life is actually a little different. I was the youngest of five girls....
by Juggling The Jenkins | Sep 26, 2019 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
****TRIGGER WARNING**** Sexual Abuse They first came for me when I was 6 years old. I told my parents about the assaults at age 8. The teenagers and men continued the abuses until I was 13. Looking back, as a 45-year-old single mother of a 17-year-old son, I can’t...
by Juggling The Jenkins | Sep 12, 2019 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
Two years into my undergraduate degree at the most prestigious university in the PNW, I was renting an apartment with my best friend and teammate a couple miles from campus and was finally independent. I was finally free to eat what I want, act how I want, and do...
by Juggling The Jenkins | Sep 5, 2019 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
Envelopes. It all started with envelopes. Mom would ask me to take “notes” to her friends. I later found out that these “notes” contained quarter papers of methamphetamine. It wasn’t until I was cooking a batch of it with my mom that I...
by Juggling The Jenkins | Aug 29, 2019 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
I watched my brother go through addiction when I was around 10 years old. I always swore that I would never drink and I would never do drugs. That changed when I had my first drink of alcohol around age twelve. I didn’t drink much that first time, but I instantly knew...