by Juggling The Jenkins | Jan 13, 2021 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
School was easy for me growing up. Until it wasn’t. When I was a junior in high school, I didn’t know what was wrong: all I knew was it was hard to go, I didn’t like it, and I couldn’t focus. Everyone was talking about which college they would get into. I was just...
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 12, 2019 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
Two years into my undergraduate degree at the most prestigious university in the PNW, I was renting an apartment with my best friend and teammate a couple miles from campus and was finally independent. I was finally free to eat what I want, act how I want, and do...
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...
