Everyone has secrets. Maybe it's part of human nature that drives us to sustain some sort of private habit. I started biting my nails at nine years old and never stopped. I had an eating disorder and self-mutilated at fourteen due to constant bullying. A year or two later it was...

My beautiful, intelligent, very loving 26-year-old daughter, Brittany Hallett, died on November 5, 2014 from alcohol addiction when I came home to find her eyes open, but I couldn’t wake her up. No parent should ever experience that or have to bury their child. She was a...

I am a girl from the New Jersey suburbs, born into an Irish-Catholic family riddled with alcoholism and drug addiction. My parents grew up two blocks from each other, and raised my brother and I in the town that they grew up in. My dad worked for the Elevator Union and my mom...

Today, I'm a Personal Trainer, Best Selling Author, Entrepreneur, but most of all I think of myself as a Life Transformational Coach. In 2008, I was at my lowest low…depressed…out of shape…addicted to painkillers (snorting roughly 300-400mg/daily) and selling massive amounts of...

Here is a story I tell a lot: I got sober more than 10 years ago, in a tiny studio apartment in Portland, Oregon. I was 23 years old and convinced I was going to be great. Maybe I already was great, I told myself. I merely needed to be discovered. Zoe Trope’s novel Please Don’t...

As I sit here to write my story for the #voicesproject I have 834 days of continuous sobriety from alcohol and drugs. And, I can truly say its been THE BEST 834 days of my entire 48 years. I am the youngest of 7 children and come from a long-line of a alcoholics and addicts. I...

Hello, my name is Ashley May. My sobriety date is April 9th 2016. I am a recovering heroin/crack addict. I started using drugs 14 years ago and "hard drugs" I started using 10 years ago. During my addiction, I have tried to get sober on my own many times, all unsuccessful. I...

I started drinking at the age of 37. Before that my addiction was food. I had a gastric bypass in 2001 and in 2005 started my downward spiral of alcohol and other drugs. In 6 short years, I divorced my husband of 18 years, my kids moved out of state to live with my sister, I...

If you asked anyone five to ten years ago where I would be in ten years, you would likely get answers like “in jail”, “strung out”, or “dead.” Back then, I was stuck in addiction. Every move I made was somehow connected to getting my next fix. Heroin is a powerful drug. And...