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Really without the services and the help that they gave me,

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I definitely

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know that I wouldn't have made it as far as I did.

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Now grant it, I did the work and I put the work in myself,

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but they were definitely

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right by my side and walking me along the way, the whole time.

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There was a class that Carmen

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put me in, it was called thinking for a change. And that helped me

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start realizing that I needed to change my thinking and

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look at things in a whole different aspect from what I had ever done before.

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Understanding how to deal with everyday life

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has become a little bit easier.

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I mean, obviously we still have struggles and there's always issues,

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but dealing with it sober,

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you have to learn how to do that.

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And every day I see myself 

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reaching out towards

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things that

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are gonna help

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keep me going, not pull me back.

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Some people look at me and others that are in recovery and

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they're like, oh

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that's what normal people do. But to us

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it's a different kind of normal because for the longest time,

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we didn't live like a normal person

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So little 

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accomplishments to other people are huge accomplishments to us.