Getting Out of My Comfort Zone – Joseph’s Story “I’ve been at HT for nine months now. Before coming here, my life was very lonely. I was very reclusive and not very social. I barely spoke to anyone, sometimes for months at a time. When I first got here, I faced a lot of challenges.…
Learning to Love and Trust – Rachel’s Story “I’ve been at Healing Transitions since March 8th of 2020. Before arriving, my life was extremely chaotic. I had no sense of direction and didn’t know what I was doing. All I know is using was like a full-time job, and I was just slowly losing myself.…
A Common Bond – Steven’s Story “I’m currently in the last stage of the program and am doing a service commitment helping HT with fundraising and administrative tasks. I’m also a re-tracker, which means that I had the opportunity to come back here and start anew after a setback. Before coming to HT, I was…
Recovery is a Lifelong Process – Jane’s Story “I’m in the final stage of the recovery program and will be looking for work and transitioning into sober living very soon. Before I came to HT, I was on a bender. I had some clean time a few years before that, but it just became unmanageable…
Having Time to Find Purpose – John’s Story “Before coming to Healing Transitions, my life was completely unmanageable. I had a part-time job and was living out of my car between two supermarket parking lots. I would wake up in the morning and do my best to bathe in a convenience store bathroom, then go…
The Future is Positive – Kristen’s Story “Before coming to Healing Transitions, I drank 24 hours a day, seven days a week for about two years. I would drink so much that I would blackout multiple times each day. After a lot of prayer and online research of other recovery programs by my family, we…
Eye Opener – Darrell’s Story Note: The identity of the person reflected in this story has been changed to protect anonymity. “Before coming to HT, my life was unmanageable because of drugs and alcohol. Coming here has been an eye-opener for me. It has given me clarity and is helping me make choices and decisions…
I’ve been exposed to drugs and alcohol my whole life. At age 12 I tried drinking for the first time while I was camping with some of my family. One of my relatives gave me and my cousin our first six-pack, which at that age, we thought we were being cool. Then in middle school…
Early years Growing up, I was a good kid who enjoyed playing soccer all the way through high school. But at age 16, I started smoking pot and hanging with the wrong crowd, which basically threw my sports career because I became more interested in skipping school and getting high. Then when I was 18,…
Early trauma Like a lot of stories I hear, I had a pretty traumatic childhood. My mom was 16 when she had me, and she and my dad got married because of the pregnancy. When I was 9 or 10 years old, they divorced, and my mom married a preacher who was also a child…