Personal Narrative: Life After Recovery

A time I had to overcome adversity in my life was when I became injured during the middle of cheer tryouts. At the time I was very passionate about competitive cheer, and my goal was to make the junior five team. When I got to tryouts everyone was tumbling, stunting and doing the dance routine. My adrenaline was pumping as I went to warm up my tumbling and throw a roundoff, back handspring, layout. I was determined to accomplish this for tryouts and impress my coach, but I was still very nervous. As I was running into the roundoff back handspring, I knew something was bound to go wrong. The next thing I knew I was in the middle of the air and suddenly landed on my knees, with my ankle twisted under me. My face got bright

Sometimes I ask myself how I overcame my disease. Many people with lupus experience fatigue, memory loss, loss of appetite. Usually younger African, white, and Asian men and woman develop that disease in their teens. It all started that night when I was laying in my mom bed. At that time I felt like it was my time to leave this earth. When I turn 15 years old I saw so many changes. . I experience so many symptoms while I was in my second semester. All the symptoms that I experience were hallucinations, fever, nausea, and nose bleeds. At that time I seen myself getting really sick. I caught strep throat and it was hard to focus in school because I missed so many days.

I fight for my health every day in ways most people do not understand I lay in bed struggling just to get up in the morning only to get faced with a new day of troubles. All I think about is the day that being a normal eighteen year old ended for me. I was responsible went to work every day, and was trying to figure out my first year of college until everything was flipped upside down.

I feel a sense of calmness wash over me. My thoughts are peaceful and positive. I am confident and capable. I sleep a deep, healing sleep. I wake in the morning refreshed and renewed.

For my 28-day experiential exercise I was determined to renounce sweets and pastries. I have been trying to lose weight for some time, which I have been successful, however I gave up sweets id loose much more weight. I have been able to lose a substantial amount of weight but it has taken me some time. But, because I love sweets, it had become impossible for me to reach my goal. Before starting this experiment, I would say that I was addicted to sweets such as pastries, macarons, milk-shakes, ice creams, and cake.

When you begin grow in your recovery, value yourself more and look forward to the next climb, you begin to realize that you have a voice and the power to change things for the better. In my hometown Windsor, I have made needed changes to C.O.A.S.T (Community Outreach and Suipport Team). This is a partnership between Windsor Police Service and the Community Crisis Centre of Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare. A team consisting of a plain clothes police officers and crisis workers provide on-site crisis and mental health assessments to people age 16 and over. These individuals are marginalized and vulnerable with complex mental health and psychosocial problems such as untreated mental illness; housing and financial issues; substance abuse; physical

I have been in recovery now for about five years because of my drug and alcohol dependency. I started doing drugs in middle school and kept appearances up until my senior year of high school. My senior year of high school I stopped dancing and other positive activities. I believe that being a part of activities kept my drug use at bay until it took over my life. Some positive factors in my life that helped me not use every day were self-control and teacher monitoring. Also, I kept busy so I could stay on track for the most part. The risk factors for me using drugs and alcohol are having a hard time expressing emotions in a healthy way. I was unable to delay gratification and using drugs so young made it hard for me to mature like the rest of

You knew he was toxic. But that was probably why you kept coming back. Every time you make the decision to leave him, his charm still manages to capture your heart, imploring you to come back to him. Just one word, one touch was all it took.

works the best for substance abuse, however, the group counselor could step in for individual counseling if Alice felt the need for one on one sessions during her recovery. A family counselor will be a part of the team since Alice is married and has two little girls and her drinking has affected the unit and the goal will be to make sure that we can strengthen the unit. With family counseling will be slowly brought into Alice’s recovery processed. It may look something like working with the couple first and then bringing the girls in later down the road once Alice and Michael and a firmer foundation built in this new stage of their relationship. A play therapist will be brought into for the girls to process their own experiences.

My last clinical experience was at Oakland Grove in Woonsocket, RI and others offsites. I reported to clinicals on mondays, tuesdays, and thursdays; from 7am to 4pm. I was not always on time, however I can say that I reported to these sites well groomed and prepared. Fortunately, I did not get sick and did not have miss a clinical day.

I had a few relapses and thought that he was going to change and we would get back together but they were all false alarms. I continued to love him and help him and in return, he continued to hurt me and toy with my emotions. Until I was completely drained and mentally could not deal with him anymore.

I come from a developing Country myself, which always required for growing the Country. My Family are already refugees from Isreal. I have worked in the seconed biggest refugee camp in the world ( Zaatri Refugee Camp in Jordan since it started chronichally with the syrian crisis with Morethanshelters , teir tents and move their tents and they were reseilent enough to come up with a way to help them carry on with this hardship life and live in a Caravan or a makeshift camp in Jordan. I am an advior for Urbancore which is a Danish start up that Goal is to help refugees and less foutunates to build up their living. We work with archaticts to find the best ways to establish a difnity of living through our Project that will be in Jordan. I am applying

I knew as soon as it happened it would break me beyond repair. Hard enough that recovery seems almost impossible.

I am a healer and a master dowser. One time, because of allergies, I was dowsing lists of foods to find out what was the best to eat and what to avoid. So I had charts spread out all over the place. In the middle of that, my mother called to tell me, that my Aunt Barbara was in the hospital and was completely catatonic. She had gone from living alone, paying her bills and even cleaning her own swimming pool, to completely unresponsive. They thought she'd had a stroke but the tests were negative. After seven weeks of tests she was still the same, and they didn't have a diagnosis. My mother asked me if I could. “Check in” with spirit and find out what was going on. Using my healing charts, the pendulum went to the forehead

An example of this happened just half a year ago. My father suffered something similar to a heart attack. With him working out of state, I was not able to be with him though the surgeries as well as the recovery. In addition to this, the funds that my family and I had been saving for my exchange needed to be used for medical expenses. So, I of course was sad and worried as any child would be for their father. But I knew I needed to keep positive for my family and myself. This can sometimes take a toll, as I am always trying my best to be strong for others, sometimes I forget to be strong for myself. But I believe this is something almost all people struggle with! So, I searched for the bright sides of the event and found them. I thought