When Rita speaks of her sobriety date, there’s a hint of amazement in her voice. Having attended treatment 14 times, she’s proud and pleased to say, “I’ve been sober since October 11, 2022.” Rita has struggled with addiction since she was a child. “I had vodka stashed under my bed by age 11. I wasn’t … Continued
While she had experimented with marijuana as a teenager, there were ultimately two traumatic incidents that shaped Jenna’s drug use. “I was sexually assaulted in university,” she shares, “and I was in a car accident in which the other person almost died. In both cases I had no way of dealing with the trauma, and … Continued
Step 1: “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.” By Dan, Renascent Alumni I owe a lot of my recovery to following the 12 Steps, and every one of them is important. But the truth is, none of them can happen until you fully embrace Step 1. You … Continued
By Colin W., Renascent Alumni From my childhood through my teens, into adulthood, and through the trials [no pun intended] of addiction, my relationship with my family has been something I made complicated. I think it’s difficult to see things from someone else’s perspective [for example, my family’s] when being held firmly in the clutches … Continued
“I started selling drugs at a young age,” Kyle recalls. “I was 15 or 16 at the time, and I after a while I started doing the drugs, too. I was in and out of jail, and I overdosed three times. I lost both of my parents to drug overdoses, too. It wasn’t the life … Continued
By Sue W., Renascent Alumni Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. My spiritual awakening came in January 2020 when I slammed my truck into the back of a parked car and … Continued
