Unified in Recovery

12/18/2025

The biggest mountain you’ll climb is your own self. Keep going.

12/18/2025

Shelly Roach

12/18/2025

I was privileged to attend the General Assembly Working Group on Addiction and Recovery - Public Policy Conversation: The Addiction Epidemic in Georgia. I appreciate the bipartisan leadership of our four Co-Chairs, Senator Randy Robertson, Representative Matthew Gambill, Senator Sonya Halpern, and Representative Michelle Au, in addressing the Addiction Epidemic's impact on Georgia families.

Today's events featured the powerful documentary Fentanyl Death Incorporated, made possible by Cammie Wolf Rice of CWC Alliance, followed by a panel discussion on the devastating effects of fentanyl. We also explored the impact of the Addiction Epidemic on Georgia's farmers and their families in-depth. Our final policy panel examined how Georgia can better support nurses who encounter substance use disorder.

Unity among families, peers, clinical professionals, and peer-led initiatives is essential in addressing the Addiction Epidemic, as it is critical in saving lives, restoring families, and strengthening communities.

12/17/2025

Addiction Epidemic in Georgia - The Public Policy Conversation
From the trap house to prison to the Capital... What an amazing life I get to live because of recovery..I absolutely love all this learning . Thank you Lord for
your grace and mercy and guiding me on my journey..
Shelly Roach

12/14/2025

It's so important!
🐝 Kind

At The Loveland Foundation, we’ll encourage you to share the joy. 💞

12/13/2025

They are inmates. Criminals. Most of them, felons.

I know every one of their names.
I know which one is in jail for possession.
Which one is here for driving without a license.
Which one is behind bars for a probation violation tied to a charge from ten years ago.

But I also know their children’s names.
I know where their kids go to school.
I know who is devastated to be missing his son’s kindergarten graduation.
Who won’t be there for the birth of his child in July.
Who will miss his daughter’s first birthday on the 31st of May.

I know which ones chose to stay two months longer than required, because they believe this program is their best shot at starting over.

I know who builds up their peers.
Who only has a 7th-grade education, while also being the highest scorer on the college placement test.

Who races up the stairs to open the door for us without fail.

Who doesn’t have anyone putting money on their books and who shares his snacks with the ones who don’t.

I know who has their diploma or GED and who offers to tutor the ones still working toward theirs.

I know which one will tease me for being fancy and having no street cred. Spoiler alert: it’s all of them.

I know which former employer called and said,
“When he’s out, we want him back. He was exceptional. We were ready to promote him.”

I know which one never leaves class without walking out, yelling
“Love you guys! Thank you for everything! See you next week!”

They are inmates.

But they are also fathers, sons, coworkers, neighbors and people trying to do better.

Second chances matter. And when we choose to see the whole person, not just the mistake, we give hope room to grow.

I feel incredibly blessed and fortunate to do this work.
To walk alongside them. To believe in them, sometimes before they believe in themselves.

12/13/2025

Merry Christmas from Unified in Recovery . Jesus is the reason for the season..🌲❄️☃️♥️ Megan Fowler and Melissa D Cantrell

12/05/2025

Ok we couldn't get a good number and the trailer is ruined so we are just driving my truck thru..

12/04/2025

Who wants to come out and ride in the Christmas parade Anyone can a show up and show out for recovery and your support in this recovery Christmas ride along with everybody else. Does anyone have a generator we could borrow tomorrow to run out lights . Christmas time is coming! 🌲❄️☃️🌵🌄🏝️🏖️ It's so very public to be seen this year esp with the way they are treating us. I can't wait. So excited 😊

12/02/2025

Be proud of yourself.

11/29/2025

You may think an addict ain’t worth it, but I promise you — Jesus does.

That’s the part people forget. That’s the part society overlooks. That’s the part the world gets wrong every single day. Because when someone is drowning in addiction, most people only see the mess. The chaos. The consequences. The broken promises. The pain.

But Jesus sees the person.

He sees the battle behind the behavior.
He sees the trauma behind the choices.
He sees the heart beneath the hurt.
He sees the potential beneath the ruins.
He sees the soul beneath the struggle.

People will give up on an addict long before God ever will. They’ll judge from a distance. They’ll criticize what they don’t understand. They’ll label, dismiss, and walk away. But Jesus moves toward the very people the world avoids.

He doesn’t wait for you to get clean to love you.
He doesn’t wait for you to fix yourself to accept you.
He doesn’t wait for you to be perfect to call you worthy.
He meets you in the darkest corner of the darkest room, looks you in the eyes, and says, “You’re still mine.”

Addiction doesn’t disqualify you.
Relapse doesn’t erase you.
Rock bottom doesn’t define you.
Shame doesn’t own you.

Jesus fought for the broken — not the polished.
He walked with the outcasts — not the favored.
He healed the sick — not the self-righteous.
He restored the lost — not the already found.

So when people say, “They’re not worth it,” understand something: their vision is limited. Their grace is limited. Their patience is limited.

God’s isn’t.

He’ll chase you through hell to bring you home.
He’ll sit with you in your withdrawals.
He’ll cover you in your relapse.
He’ll whisper hope into your hopelessness.
He’ll love you when you don’t even love yourself.

Addicts aren’t throwaways. They’re the very people God specializes in saving.

So if no one believes in you… He does.
If no one sees value in you… He does.
If no one thinks you’ll make it… He does.

And His belief carries more weight than the world’s doubt ever will.

— j. anthony | |