From Brokenness to Hope | A Hope Is Alive Impact Story

From Brokenness to Hope | A Hope Is Alive Impact Story

Before coming to Hope is Alive, I was a broken human who had no purpose to live or pursue life anymore. Here is what my life looked like before and after.

Before

Before getting sober, I was in turmoil. I had nowhere to go and no one to turn to. For over eight years, drugs and alcohol were my higher power. There was not a single person in this world I wouldn’t trade just to get high or drunk.

I felt so alone and depressed. I grew up in a wonderful home filled with love, but when I was four years old, I lost my mom to a battle with cancer. That was my “black hole” moment. I used that loss to fuel every negative action in my life for the next 18 years.

I constantly got into trouble, always being suspended or kicked out of school. By high school, I was drinking and using drugs every day. The only thing I wanted was to get high with my friends.

I was selfish and only did things that benefitted me. By the end of 2020, I was without any good relationships. No one wanted to be around me because of my actions and choices. I was devastated, hopeless, and completely consumed by addiction.

After

One call changed my life. In the middle of the night, I called my mom and dad crying for help. That was the day everything shifted. They picked me up and drove me to a rehab facility the very next day.

After 45 days there, I made the decision to go to sober living. The only place that stood out to me was Hope is Alive. I was hesitant to pack up and move to another state without knowing a single person, but I knew I did not want to get high anymore.

I was scared and uncertain, but entering the Hope is Alive program was one of the best decisions I have ever made. I was taught what real recovery and real sobriety looked like. I was welcomed with love and shown how to live life in a principled way.

Not every day was easy, but it was always better than chasing my next drug or drink. The men I lived with wanted the same thing I did: a better life.

I spent the next three years working on myself and helping others find what I had found. Sober living changed my life forever, and I am deeply grateful.

A Word to the Hopeless

For anyone out there who feels hopeless or doesn’t know what to do, get into a place like Hope is Alive and start working on yourself.

Sober living works—if you work it.