Reilly Harvey: Worthy – Navigating Recovery and Healing
Reilly Harvey runs a Maine painting business called We Paint. A mother and partner, she makes prayer and meditation part of daily life and finds strength in fellowship and service.
Articles by Jamie Lovley
Radiant in Recovery – Danielle Ward
Danielle Ward is a recovery coach and certified yoga instructor with five years of sobriety. Her goal is to become a certified drug and alcohol counselor.
Stories Restoring Hope: Inked and Sober
Chris Bastey's clients book tattoo appointments years in advance for his bold, colorful work at Atlantic Studios in Rockland, Maine. Five years sober, he credits his art and a deliberate spiritual pra…
Stories Restoring Hope: Malerie Lockhart
Malerie Lockhart sits across from men in Maine's reentry center, helping them imagine life after incarceration. Once, she sold everything for a one-way ticket to Florida with two hundred dollars and a…
Stories Restoring Hope: Jim Mello
Jim Mello's Sunday sermons reach three Methodist churches, his poetry fills handwritten notebooks by the thousands, and his voice once hosted a college radio show. But it's his work as a substance use…
Wendy Ayres – Night Shift filled with Light
Wendy works nights at a residential treatment facility, staying awake when residents need someone who understands. Nearly eighteen years in recovery, she listens with the wisdom of someone who survive…
Maine Voices of Recovery – Rachelle Bell
Rachelle Bell sits across from incarcerated people in Maine's reentry centers, telling them the truth: the only difference between them and her is that she never got caught. Ten years sober after a de…
Maine Voices of Recovery Issue #23
Rochelle Grant Kenney watches her grandson Sander call out "Mimi" across the living room in Hope, Maine. That voice reminds her daily of everything she regained when she got sober in 2009. Now she wor…
Maine Voices of Recovery Issue #22
Becky Peasley has been a nurse in Maine for 25 years. She serves on the board of the Coastal Recovery Community Center, speaks in jails, and pushes for faster access to treatment.