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 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 | Aug 15, 2018 | 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 Tiffany Jenkins | Jul 9, 2018 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
Self Harm & Sexual Abuse. (Triggers) I grew up in a very chaotic and abusive family, my father and mother were born into chaotic families themselves and had very little skills in the way of parenting, loving, or emotional/self-regulation. They did...
