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Cayla’s Story – Recovering Beautifully.
I knew from a very early age that both of my parents were addicted to drugs. By the time I was fourteen my mom had left us to go be with some guy. When I was seventeen, a senior in high school, my dad was handed four - 99 year sentences. Despite this fact, I was...
“The Toolbox”
I wish I could take credit for "The Toolbox", but it's actually something I was introduced to when I first got clean. A woman named Sharon would talk about it every morning, at the 7:30 Wake-up meeting. It was actually her answer for everything: Bad day? "The...
Emma’s Story – Recovering Beautifully.
The first time I snorted a Percocet, I knew I had found what I had been looking for; something to fill the void in my soul. Something to curb the depression and numb the anxiety. I had tried Vicodin before, but this was different. My body was...
Dana’s Story – Recovering Beautifully.
June 5, 2011. Dear Diary: Crawling on the filthy floor, dodging needles, old cigarette butts, and moldy fast food wrappers, I was on my hands and knees today looking for a tooth. An expensive tooth. Well, more accurately, an expensive dental crown that fell out...
Renea’s Story – Recovering Beautifully.
Food addiction is a hard thing to explain. Even though you can’t go to jail for it - it can leave you feeling like you have no control. Helpless. Worthless. And in the end, it can kill you. People giggle when I tell them I am a recovering food/sugar addict. They...
A Collection of Soul-Feeding Links to Follow, BEFORE You Lose Your Mind.
Hey friends! I've been hiding one of my truths from you guys, and I didn't want to voice it until I had a solution. Thanks to a suggestion from one of my supporters, Tara, I think I've found it. I've been carrying a tremendous amount of guilt lately. I speak openly...
Kristin’s Story – Recovering Beautifully.
*Triggers - Drug Use.* I was so good at hiding who I truly was. To the outside world I was a tall blonde, with long legs, who worked full time as a paralegal for one of the top Criminal Defense Attorneys in my area. In the evenings I went to law school to...
Jennifer’s Story – Recovering Beautifully.
Trigger – Domestic & Sexual Abuse, Drug References. So what went wrong?? After high school, I met….him. He was the “bad boy”. He was handsome, charming, said all the right things, and for some reason, he showed interest in me. The first time he hit me was...
Ashley’s Story – Recovering Beautifully.
When I was one year old, my dad was a high rise window cleaner and my Mom, a school bus driver. We owned our home, paid our mortgage, visited with family and lived a fairly normal life. Until my dad did not strap himself in, and fell off of a high rise building....
Alechia’s Story – Recovering Beautifully.
Hi My Name is Alechia, and I am a Thankful Grateful and Blessed Recoving (Meth) Addict. My Clean Date is July 27 2008. Life wasn’t always the Hell I created it to be, I wasn’t always a prisoner stuck in my own mind. At one point I was a normal, regular girl who...