Age 48Since 12 / 11 / 2015
Jess C
My kids hated me and wanted nothing to do with me, I had lost my job and was looking at losing the career altogether. I had no driver's license, my house was in foreclosure and I was looking...
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December Archives
Recovery stories from people whose sobriety date falls in December — real accounts shared to remind anyone still struggling that they are not alone.
Age 00Since 12 / 10 / 2001
Quinta
It was very painful and very lonely and dark ...this is where my Addiction took me !!!!!!
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Age 36Since 12 / 18 / 2016
Jenn
I was super mom by day black out drunk by night. I wanted everyone to believe I that I was single mom who had it all together, still had my good paying job, house, kids, car and what I thoug...
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Age 42Since 12 / 19 / 1999
Celina
Lost my kids, homeless, hopeless, suicidal and homicidal. Wished I was dead, cut all my hair off with a Swiss Army knife scissors.
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Age 27Since 12 / 18 / 2017
Jodie Brown
I was in a dark place before I found out I was pregnant downward spiral didn't think I was going to make it out of that last relapse I had
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Age 43Since 12 / 16 / 2017
Brent L.
It was homelessness, joblessness hell. No one to turn too cause I wasn't anyone anybody wanted to have around. My addiction was my God.
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Age 41Since 12 / 08 / 2017
Angie
Miserable, self loathing, pit of despair that was fueled by a never ending desire to drink and use!!!
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Age 26Since 12 / 18 / 2017
Jodie Brown
I started drinking at a young age of 12,13 years old I knew I had a problem from the first time I drank because I was a blackout drunk, that didn't stop me from drinking soon booze wasn't en...
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