by Tiffany Jenkins | Mar 17, 2019 | Recovering Beautifully - Your Stories of Hope.
You can see clearly from the “then” picture posted above that I was not healthy. I was underweight and my eyes, well, they just look awful. My name is Amanda Burns, I am 26 years old and it has been 3 years, 8 months, and 22 days since I have been free of addiction. I...
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 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 | 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...
