How Boundaries Give Us Freedom
Growing up I was gas-lighted. At the time it was just my life. I didn’t know any different, but it took a toll on my mental health. The...
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Storytelling with a Purpose
Kristi Younkin
2 min
She Recovers Everyday: with Dr. Dawn Nickel, Co-founder of the SHE RECOVERS Foundation
Meet one of today’s leading women recovery advocates, Dawn Nickel, Co-Founder of the SHE RECOVERS Foundation. She is a woman on a...
Kimberly Ciccone
3 min
Kim's Story: Beauty from Ashes
My story began prior to my birth on January 8, 1991. My biological mother, while pregnant with me, was in a tumultuous, 10-year...
Kristi Younkin
5 min
Kristi's Story: Staying the Course and Finding Your Dream
Do you have a vision of what your long-term sobriety looks like? I like to keep a vision of what my long-term sobriety looks like in my...
Lisa Yerby-Bryson
3 min
Lisa's Story: When Hope and Love Overwhelms
The reality is, in June 2006 I was literally committing suicide, finally surrendering to my addiction. Sitting in a seedy motel room all...
Tiffany's Story: Women Recovering Together
Did you know that most communities have a high demand for and minimal access to supportive women's recovery housing or sober living?...
Care-giving and Healing: Lessons from Mr. Gardner
Mary looked at me with her round, hollow eyes. I wondered how an adult woman could weigh ninety pounds and quickly learned that her...
Charmin Gabbard
3 min
Charmin's Story: Finding My Why
I don't recall ever having dreams as a little girl to grow up, finish school, go to college, or even have a career. That wasn't in the...
Annalice Argyle
3 min
Annalice’s Story: I Have a Voice
I started using alcohol at 14 and smoking. Running away from home and not going to school. I was a confused kid and I now know it was...
Luciana Lage
2 min
Luciana's Story: We Can be More
Luciana Lage, from the Associação Alcoolismo Feminino, share about her recovery journey and her belief that everyone can be more in recovery
Seija Nelson
2 min
Seija's Story: Living out My Purpose
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill My name is Seija and I am a grateful...
Darlene Brock
4 min
Darlene's Story: Life Can be Mastered in Only One Day
I am sitting on my porch, expansive mountain range in view. The light filters on a few of the mountaintops, with shadows on others....
Jessica Geschke
4 min
Jessica's Story: Freedom in Recovery and in Life
To me, the words “finding freedom in recovery and life” mean more now than ever as we enter this month of July where we celebrate our...
A Note from Shelly Dutch on Freedom in Recovery
This month, as we explore what it means to find freedom in recovery and in life, Shelly Dutch shares a few words on what freedom in...
Brandee Izquierdo
2 min
A Note on Family from Brandee Izquierdo, Executive Director of SAFE Project
Recovery is a personal journey and that journey extends to family as well. Yes, I’m in recovery but I also have to remember that my...
Diana Dalles
2 min
Diana's Story: My Life is a Divine Work of Art
A few brush strokes here a few there. Often these days, a blank canvas sits waiting. That's how my creativity seems to be going these...
Jenny Lynn
2 min
Jenny's Story: An Artist's Path to Recovery and Healing
I have been an artist all of my life. Drawing was my first comfort zone. I could escape into this form of creativity and painted pictures...
An Open Letter to My 21-year-old Self on the 20th Anniversary of Initiating the Recovery Journey
Dear Kristen, Today marks your 20th year in abstinence-based recovery. I know, 20….it really is mind blowing, especially since you never...
Kristen Bear
3 min
Kristen's Story: My Sobriety, My Garden
I planted my first vegetable garden when I was about two months sober. I was bored and restless in quarantine and needed an outlet,...
Jenna Parfitt
3 min
Jenna's Story: Keep Looking Up
When I picked up my first drink in 8th grade I was struggling deeply with shame, feelings of isolation, and self-loathing. My GPA went...
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