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When I look back at my life, I can see a lot of things I wish I could change. I can see mistakes, bad decisions, broken relationships, addiction, incarceration, and times when I didn’t know if I was going to make it. But I can also see something else. I can see how far I’ve come. I grew up in a family where addiction was already a part of our lives. I had two older twin brothers who were using drugs before I was really old enough to understand what they were doing. I remember

36-year-old had 13 years addicted to opiates I've been clean since 2017 and am a successful welder in the union today. I got robbed in Baltimore City and almost killed and after that van happened to turn my life around 10 years clean today.

I have struggled with my addiction for a lifetime. I wanted people around me that were just like me. I married my husband (Michael Tanner) in 2003, leaving a Public Defender boyfriend to do so. After years of abuse, Michael died of an overdose in 2010, leaving myself, and our 4 and 5 year old daughters. My addiction went through many stages after that, from picking up the needle to many attempts at sobriety. We (my children and/or I) have been through homelessness, unemployme

I wanna start of by talking about my mental health, I have suffered from bad mental health ever since I was a little girl. I didn’t know what that meant nor understood only that I was struggling and as I got older my conditions progressed. I was diagnosed with bipolar depression, ADHD, ptsd/trauma, generalized anxiety and major depressive disorder. Life was hard growing up, besides my conditions I also struggled with other things such as socializing, motivating myself, contro

For a long time, I was very good at looking like I had everything under control. I was raising a family, building businesses, working constantly and doing what I had always done — pushing forward no matter what was happening behind the scenes. Eventually, alcohol became part of how I dealt with stress, disappointment and pressure. Over time, it stopped providing an escape and started adding to the very problems I was trying to escape from. Relationships became strained. Busin