1 Day at a Time. We Do recover.

12/10/2023

Someday SOON!!!!

12/10/2023

👜👢Here are the SIX Paradoxes in Pyschology👢👜

12/10/2023

It’s time to silently remove from people who are causing more pain than joy!

12/10/2023

The Struggle is REAL, bahaha🪷

12/09/2023

I’m a self isolator and never knew why until today! Anybody relate?

11/13/2023

MONDAYS GET A BAD RAP💚

10/23/2023

10/10/2023

World Mental Health Day 2023

10/05/2023

Self Care is the way to GO🪷

07/16/2023

07/15/2023

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06/04/2023

I love u fam! U guts mean .ord to me than I cab explain!

05/24/2023

Hello! I’m Haley. I’m currently 1 year, 4 months and 7 days sober from alcohol. I wanted to say thank you for the add.

My reason for getting sober was pretty ironic. I had been a corrections officer for a few years. It’s a mentally exhausting career. I would go home from a 12 hour shift to a verbally, mentally and sometimes physically abusive husband. I started slamming vodka like it was water. If I wasn’t black out I wasn’t satisfied. My (now ex) husband and I fought every single day. We would drink, have fun, a minor inconvenience would come along and it was an all out war. It had gotten to the point I was finding ways to kill myself. I thought if I couldn’t drink myself to death I needed to speed it up and do it myself. I’d wake up still drunk from the night before and function like a human being. It eventually became a normal thing for me. Work, go home, black out, fight, sleep, repeat. That happened for a few years. One night I was hammered and just had it with my ex husband abusing me. (A couple nights before he had thrown me to the floor when I tried leaving and locked me in the basement) I snapped and started beating him up. Now, with my corrections background, I’m also the defensive tactics instructor at my facility so I was hurting him pretty good. He called the cops on me and I got arrested by one of my best friends. I was taken to the jail I work at. I was supposed to work that day. Instead I was on the wrong side of the cell. I had to go through an investigation through my work and was put on administrative leave for two months.

Fast forward, I got away from the abusive relationship, I have a clean, stable home, a man who loves and respects me, and I’m the mom I always wanted to be for my son.

Lots of days are hard, lots of days you want to give up. Don’t give up. Things only get better. We do overcome. We do recover. We do get sober.

The two pictures are before sobriety (red hair) and after being sober over a year (blonde hair). Not only are the mental and emotional benefits great, but seeing yourself truly happy and healthy is another level of confidence.