Really without the services and the help that they gave me,
I definitely
know that I wouldn't have made it as far as I did.
Now grant it, I did the work and I put the work in myself,
but they were definitely
right by my side and walking me along the way, the whole time.
There was a class that Carmen
put me in, it was called thinking for a change. And that helped me
start realizing that I needed to change my thinking and
look at things in a whole different aspect from what I had ever done before.
Understanding how to deal with everyday life
has become a little bit easier.
I mean, obviously we still have struggles and there's always issues,
but dealing with it sober,
you have to learn how to do that.
And every day I see myself
reaching out towards
things that
are gonna help
keep me going, not pull me back.
Some people look at me and others that are in recovery and
they're like, oh
that's what normal people do. But to us
it's a different kind of normal because for the longest time,
we didn't live like a normal person
So little
accomplishments to other people are huge accomplishments to us.