Real Life Stories, from real people in recovery

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read Matt’s story

My life was horrendous, either with severe illness where I nearly lost my life, had no possible outlook on life, no finances and lost all my family. It got at its lowest, to the point where life was not worth living and I tried to take my own life…

 
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read david’s story

I had a decent upbringing and education so I was confused at how I got here. I had run my own business, owned property, had four children – but I also had three broken relationships, the last being a 20 year marriage. I had become emotionally broken and physically and mentally dependent on alcohol, my life had become unmanageable. I felt like I was standing in the wreckage that had become my pitiful existence…

 
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read sam’s Story

I had been living alone for around 3 years after arriving back in the country, I came back from Barcelona after teaching English, and starting a family, so coming back to very little hit me hard. I’d always dabbled in drugs and drink recreationally, since I was a teenager and on many occasions during my adult life. For the most part these were accompanied with fond memories, however I would fall back on them to numb emotional pain too and this is where I became unstuck…