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So my life before finding recovery and finding Oriana

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House was

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pretty hectic

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and hopeless. I spent 

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a decade

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in active addiction.

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And so I spent over two years in county jails. I had over 15

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charges in five different counties,

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felonies and misdemeanors, and I was homeless for most of that time.

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I was at a place where it was going to be death or find something different.

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And um

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that was when the light came at the end of the tunnel,

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I was the first client of PIVOT Drug Court.

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And when I came into pivot and I met um my caseworker, Jamie Opp

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and

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the people in the PIVOT program,

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they

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were the first people to really tell me,

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we know you can do this

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like we know you now and we believe that you can do this and hearing that from people in

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essentially a position of power to me,

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Um

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I felt like I could and that changed everything for me.

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That was just that moment of clarity.

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I needed, like, maybe I can do this, maybe I can recover.

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So the PIVOT program was really designed

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to be like an all around recovery experience.

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So there, I spent a lot of hours at

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Rigel Recovery and I think that in the beginning being there so much, 

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really, I didn't think about other things.

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I was thinking about recovery all of the time.

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They really challenged me to look back at my years of us and what

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was I really doing it for? What were the reasons that I was feeling so empty and

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how can I fill it in another way?

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And obviously there is accountability there with all of the Oriana House programs

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and knowing that I was gonna be tested and checked on in the evenings also helped.

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So that was a big part of the program and

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there was just no way around recovery for me at that time.

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I felt like it was everywhere I looked. I was getting so much encouragement.

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I just, it was a really exciting time for me.

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Now, six years later,

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I own my own home. I am married, I have a family.

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I adopted a child in 2021

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and I gave my children up for adoption in

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early addiction because I could not care for them.

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Which was the best decision for me.

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But

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in my recovery,

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I have now reunited with my children. My daughter is 17 and my son is 13.

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I learned so many different resources and tools while

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I was growing through my program in Oriana House.

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So I try to take all of that and

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spread it out into the community any time I can because I do know what they're

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going through and they do feel comfortable talking

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to me about it because I've been there.

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So that's why I'm always sharing.

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We're always sharing because it's like there is hope.

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Even if you don't think there's hope, even if there's no hope, there's still hope.

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There's a little bit of hope always.

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And as long as you know that you, it's the, it's the possibilities are endless.

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So that's why we're always sharing our stories.

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We do have the services here at Oriana

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House that can help you make that light grow.

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And when you do,

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you'll be glad you did because it's beautiful. There is life after addiction.

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There is,

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there's a recovery there and

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you don't wanna miss that.

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I am so glad I didn't.