BY LEA HART PHOTOGRAPHY BY JONATHAN FREDIN Justin Garrity wants people to know that addiction can happen to anyone, and he’s proof. Garrity grew up in Cary’s MacGregor neighborhood in a loving, affluent family. He’s the first to say he had everything he needed growing up, and there was no family history of addiction. He partied some…
RALEIGH, NC (July 8, 2019) – Healing Transitions is pleased to announce a $1 million pledge gift from the A.J. Fletcher Foundation. The gift marks the beginning of the non-profit’s $11.75 million multi-year capital campaign, Recovery Can’t Wait. “When we first opened the men’s campus in 2001, the A.J. Fletcher Foundation provided office space and…
Healing Transitions Statement May 1, 2019 On March 29, 2019, Delaney at MCD, LLC*, and Lower Cape Fear Hospice, Inc., filed a joint Petition for Writ of Certiorari and Motion to Stay (“Petition”) in North Carolina Superior Court, New Hanover County, regarding the proposed Healing Place facility in Wilmington, North Carolina. On April 18, 2019,…
by North Carolina Judicial Branch The North Carolina Pro Bono Resource Center (PBRC) is proud to announce the induction of 468 attorneys into the 2018 North Carolina Pro Bono Honor Society. Society members reported providing 50 or more hours of pro bono legal services in 2018 to clients unable to pay without expectation of a fee, an aspirational threshold…
I was 34 years old when I entered the doors of Healing Transitions. I was broken and desperate for a dramatic and much-needed change in my life. My childhood dreams of becoming a nurse like my mother and grandmother had vanished due to my addiction. I was incapable of being a mother to my two…
I grew up in New York before moving to North Carolina when I was in my early teens. Not too long after moving here, I had my first experience with drugs and alcohol. I was probably about 14 or 15 years old at the time. It wasn’t really something that I had the desire to…
by Catherine Currin | photography by Bob Karp – Walter Magazine Matt Elliott and Justin Garrity love to run—and not just for fitness. They found that spending time outside, exercising, with like-minded friends, was proving to be a way to work through their struggles and successes in recovery from addiction. That realization led the two…
A lot of my drinking was based on my childhood. My real parents were divorced when I was an infant. My mom remarried and I was abused physically and mentally. When I turned six, my mom was just going to give me up for foster care and get rid of me, so my aunt and…
For the last five months before I made it to Healing Transitions, I disconnected from my family and my first child, Brody. At the time he was four years old. I was couch surfing and in a very abusive relationship for part of those five months, finally ending up sleeping under bridges or in my…
