For Jeffrey, rock bottom came following a medical emergency. He suffered two seizures while at work – the result, he says, of epilepsy aggravated by too much alcohol and not taking his medications. “I knew I needed help,” he says, “and I decided to reach out to my family. Within 24 hours my parents 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
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
“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
A note on language. At Renascent, we help people recover from substance use addiction and integrate 12-Step facilitation into our programming. We recognize that the substances our clients are recovering from and the 12-Step groups they connect with may vary. Throughout our website you may see general terms relating to the 12 Steps as we … Continued
A note on language. At Renascent, we help people recover from substance use addiction and integrate 12-Step facilitation into our programming. We recognize that the substances our clients are recovering from and the 12-Step groups they connect with may vary. Throughout our website you may see general terms relating to the 12 Steps as we … Continued
