Kaeli’s journey into addiction was years in the making. Struggling with extreme post-partum depression, a child’s significant medical challenges and her mother’s death, “I was using alcohol to cope,” she shares. Her turning point came when, rushing to pick up one of her sons from school, she got into a car accident with the other … Continued
“I drank, but I never thought I had a problem,” Cary says. He admits he ignored the warning signs for years, like never being able to call it a night when others did. “When I started drinking, I just couldn’t stop,” he reflects. “It didn’t matter what time of day or night it was — … Continued
Step 5 calls us to “admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” In my recovery journey, I found this Step to be the most freeing experience. In truth, it took time to remember and write down the resentments I harboured, and all the things I needed … Continued
It’s with wisdom and self-reflection that Karen approaches conversations about her recovery. As the parent of a Renascent alumni who is still struggling with addiction, Karen understood years ago that she too needed her own path to healing. It was a realization that brought Karen to Renascent’s Family Program and Al-Anon (a group that provides … Continued
By Kaeli, Renascent Alumni Step 4 calls us to make “a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” Many people find this difficult, but in a way I felt that I’d already gone through this so many times; after all, I already believed all the negative things about me. Prior to recovery, my addiction had … Continued
By Adrian P., Renascent Alumni I love Step 2. In Step 2 we, “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.” To really unpack that Step, we have to start with Step 1: “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.” I used … Continued
