by Robert Hammond | Jun 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
After spending more than half my life in and out of jails, rehabs and prisons while battling drug addiction, I was a dead dog on the road of life. Down in the darkness of death’s doorstep, in the depths of despair, the Light began to dawn. Then everything changed. By...
by Boruch Binyamin from Ohio | Jun 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
I was a “high bottom” drunk and did most of my drinking alone. Most people I knew had no idea that I even had a problem. But, I had a problem, for sure. For years, I used to go home and get drunk alone in my apartment. There were some events that were bottoms, in...
by Jessica, sober since 2011, from New York | Jun 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Addiction was nothing new to my family. There’s a long line of alcoholics and my parents had been through this all with my brother years before me. The first time my parents dealt with addiction, they lost their son. I lost my brother, my niece lost his father,...
by Sarai Darbandi From Tucson, AZ | Jun 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
The darkest days of my mental illness and addiction were spent hopeless in a bathroom throwing up and frantically stuffing my mouth with food. My struggle with anorexia, bulimia, over-exercising, and compulsive and destructive behaviors began at too young of an age. I...
by Gary, sober since June 1993, from Minnesota | Jun 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
There was a point when I went from being “dry” to being in recovery – a pivotal moment in my life. Until that day I had been in a 12-Step program, taking part, happy to be sober. But there was a nagging thought I frequently ignored. I felt that I was...