by Tiffany Jenkins | May 30, 2018 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
My parents divorced when I was 11 and I felt like I was robbed of a life. We went from family vacations and getting tucked into bed every night, to scraping up loose change in order to eat. Growing up in the house with my mother who was once a safe, at-home...
by Tiffany Jenkins | May 22, 2018 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
I had a wonderful childhood. Hard working father and a loving and attentive mother. I have one brother, two years my junior and we were very close growing up. Middle class family in a beautiful neighborhood. The picture perfect “normal” family. I met and...
by Tiffany Jenkins | Apr 25, 2018 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
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...
by Tiffany Jenkins | Apr 12, 2018 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
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...
by Tiffany Jenkins | Apr 4, 2018 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope., Recovery from addiction
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...
by Tiffany Jenkins | Mar 30, 2018 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
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...
