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…
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…
15 Years Ago Looking back, my problem with alcohol began to truly escalate 15 years ago. I was married at the time, and I began to get careless with drinking. I began getting into trouble with the law with charges like DUIs, and it just continued from there into a whirlwind until it got so…
When I was young, I grew up with a family that was very loving. We moved around a lot because of my mom’s job, which meant that I would start getting along with the kids at my elementary school before having to move and try to fit in with kids from a new school that…