“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” ~Pastor Rick Warren
It's easy to understand why many of our clients became addicts or alcoholics.
Over the past 27 years, I've heard chilling stories of every kind of imaginable abuse. Many of them were raised by parents who were drug addicts themselves. Because of their parent's addiction, they often were left without food and the other necessities of life. Often they were beaten or sexually and emotionally abused. And the biggest thing they didn't get was any kind of love or nurturing. Some of them bear scars that might prevent them from ever getting over their addictions.
Yet there are some who have decided to become bigger than their past. Somehow they reach down inside of themselves and find the courage to change. They might be so angry at their upbringing that they're determined to show the world and their families that there's a better way to live.
Those are the clients who come to us because they've had enough pain and want to change. These are the kind of clients we can work with and help to achieve success.
It's easy to pick out those who are ready to change. They're the ones who attend 12-step meetings every day. They find sponsors right away. They keep their living area clean. They find jobs and begin to pay their service fees. They don't hang out with the losers; they gravitate toward the winners.
No longer willing to live in the past; they have forged new lives for themselves.
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