A Southern Maine Woman with Three Decades in Recovery
As told to a Journey team member and written by Amy Paradysz
I never drank in a normal way.
I had my first drink when I was in seventh grade, and I loved that numb feeling.
When...
Miracles Happen
Anthony Brown has a message for anyone considering recovery: “Miracles do happen. Don’t quit before the miracle happens.”
When Brown was two years sober, he visited the park where he once slept and used drugs. He found a bench and sat down to...
No Need to Settle
It was the summer of 1969. There were things I didn’t understand, couldn’t make sense of, and at 12 years old, didn’t have the perspective to understand.
Perspective is powerful.
Lacking that, what I did see was substance use...
Ben Sawyer never thought addiction would be part of his journey. Unlike your typical high school or college student, he wasn’t interested in experimentation with drugs or alcohol. Instead, Ben joined the U.S. Marine Corps in his twenties and served his country for...
Fake It ‘til You Make It
On the other side of a decades-long struggle with alcoholism is a life worth living.
Russ was good at faking it. So good, in fact, that in 2015 he was successfully hiding how severe his alcoholism was from...
Come As You Are
Sarah Langevin’s story
A bathroom door closes in Auburn, Maine, but it does not lock.
On one side, four children run about the house. The television is on; there is unfinished homework and pacifiers, half-eaten food and a mess to clean....
