by Juggling The Jenkins | Jan 20, 2021 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
My story did not begin in an unusual way for a teenager. It started with weekend sleepovers with a group of friends during which we would creep out the back door once parents had gone to sleep; sneaking sips of wine and hits from a joint through quiet laughter. I...
by Juggling The Jenkins | Dec 28, 2020 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
***Trigger Warning: Graphic Language of Drug Use*** It starts out as the same old story, right? I started experimenting with pills while in nursing school. I was 21, my then-boyfriend (now husband) & I had just bought a house. We got a roommate from our work to...
by Juggling The Jenkins | Dec 16, 2020 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
It was a Saturday during the wee hours of a frigid November morning in 2015 that I had finally been found out. The wails coming from my hysterical sister’s mouth were horrific. We were on the back patio of her home, and I had just confessed to her my truth—that I was...
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...
