by Juggling The Jenkins | Aug 5, 2021 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
***Trigger Warning: Self-Harm*** Growing up I always thought people chose to be addicted to drugs and alcohol. No one really drank in my immediate family and there was definitely no drug use. I grew up showing horses and was raised with good morals and values. My...
by Juggling The Jenkins | Jul 29, 2021 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
***Trigger Warning: Self-Harm*** My name is Alexis. I’m 23 years old and have almost 2 and a half years clean from drugs and self-harm. My drugs of choice were heroin and cocaine. I grew up in a middle-class family in Colorado and had everything I needed. All...
by Juggling The Jenkins | Jul 21, 2021 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
My son was 3 months old when I tried heroin and meth for the first time. Shortly after that, I lost everything I’d ever known to be good in my life and it didn’t take long to lose sight of all HOPE. Within my son’s first year of his life, I was in an abusive...
by Juggling The Jenkins | Jul 1, 2021 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
From the moment a woman sees those two thin blue stripes, her world is turned upside down. There’s joy and there’s panic rushing through her mind as she struggles to come to terms with what’s to come. When the time is right, she calls and texts her friends and family...
by Juggling The Jenkins | Jun 16, 2021 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
Today a flyer from the LCBO came in the mail. I flipped it open and landed on a page featuring what my favorite drink was before. For a split second in my mind, I really missed drinking. But then all those reasons came flooding back in. I put the flyer down and walked...
by Juggling The Jenkins | May 13, 2021 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
***Trigger Warning: Suicide & Self-Harm*** Throughout my whole teenage years, I started showing signs of depression and anxiety. I always knew I’d been an anxious child, but I fobbed it off and put it down to going through puberty. After a few visits to the school...
