A wonderful example of recovery from addiction

Just over 3 years ago, BHT celebrated its 40th Birthday at an event at St. Michael’s and All Angels Church in Brighton. The highlight of the evening was the account by ‘Donna’ who had been through our Addiction Services. Many people have referred to her moving account of how addiction had blighted her life and how she had, as a consequence, lost her twin sons. Last night I received an email from her. She has agreed to let me share part of it with you:

“I wanted to email you to give you a quick up date on how things are going in my life. I got married on the 21st January. It was a beautiful day. I am nearly 4 years clean and sober on the 6th March. I can not begin to explain how that feels.
I love being in recovery and being able to bring up my daughter with all the love in the world. I have contact still with my twins boys who I lost in my addiction and we are looking at them coming to stay for holidays next year.

“I continue to work a 12 step programme and still attend meetings. I have just set up a parents and carers committee in Narcotics Anonymous which is helping Mums and Dads in recovery to attend meetings by having a safe place where the children can go so the parents can get their recovery and the children can play safely. This gives me a lot of enjoyment.

“I don’t know if you remember a few years ago you asked me to write something about why its harder for women and Mums to come into recovery and what it was like for me coming to BHT and how BHT can help. I was just wondering if you were still interested it that as I would really like to get involved with giving something back to BHT for all the help it gave me.”

You bet I would love her to write about her experience so that a wider audience can be inspired by this remarkable woman. I will keep you posted.