by Tiffany Jenkins | Mar 10, 2019 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
My story starts off like most that you hear of heroin addicts these days. I am a 27-year-old female raised in an upper-class white family who, on the outside, seemed to have everything that everyone wanted. The big house, a family with money, dropped off to school in...
by Tiffany Jenkins | Mar 3, 2019 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
It’s been nearly twelve years since I began recovering. I didn’t think of my issue as an addiction until now. I didn’t realize how much I relied on cutting as a coping mechanism. I self-harmed and I’m recovering. But not every day is an easy day. There are days...
by Juggling The Jenkins | Feb 20, 2019 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
Ironically, I would normally post about recovery from addiction; which will no doubt be a constant struggle of mine. However, living with abuse is what actually caused me to become a shell of a person. My raver days and journals to God and drugs for...
by Tiffany Jenkins | Feb 12, 2019 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
Leaving a parent at a treatment center time after time at a young age was life changing. It is a feeling that could only be understood by another child who kept losing their mother over and over to addiction. I thought it would be my lesson on not abusing drugs, my...
by Tiffany Jenkins | Dec 3, 2018 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
It was September 11th, 2009. I slowly and painfully opened my eyes to see a screenshot of the Twin Towers collapsing on the news in a memorial tribute they were conducting. I wanted to feel empathy for the pain these people were experiencing, but I couldn’t. I...
by Tiffany Jenkins | Sep 19, 2018 | On a serious note., Recovery from addiction
I realize I don’t owe anyone an explanation, so I’d like to get that out of the way first. I am completely aware that I am not responsible for how people perceive me — especially when their perceptions are askew. Full disclosure, this isn’t for...
