by Juggling The Jenkins | Aug 12, 2021 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
I grew up with a loving family. We lived in a nice neighborhood and had everything we wanted and needed. The only thing that was different in my family, was that my father was not in my life. When I was a year old my father went to prison for the first time for...
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 | 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...
