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Lara Santoro

Lara Santoro is a contributor to Journey whose personal-story features highlight Maine recovery journeys.

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Articles by Lara Santoro

Brant Dadaleares

Brant Dadaleares sits across from job candidates without asking about their past with alcohol and drugs. Instead, he tells them straight: "Don't try to pull the wool over my eyes because I've done it…

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Melissa Rivera

Melissa Rivera, 41, is a full-time health coach and the first resident health coach at World Gym. At a women's meeting this past winter, she felt for the first time that she fit in.

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Jennie Joan Ferrare

Jennie Joan Ferrare, 29, runs Arcana, a healing studio in Portland's Old Port, and its yoga school. She is coming up on five years sober and is a new mom to baby Leo.

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