Eight Months And Thirty-Nine Pounds Later...

This is excerpted from a Facebook sobriety site I follow. How has your life changed?

I gave up when my dad died of cancer when I was 17. Before that, I was in honor roll, ballet, soccer, played piano. After, I dropped out of school two months before graduating, got into an extremely abusive relationship, left home, became homeless, lost everything… I lost my motivation to keep trying. My mom thought I was dead.

(Now) 235 days clean, rekindled my relationships and trust with my family, got a root canal on my front tooth, turned myself in to the police station in Denver, Colorado after running from the law and high on meth for three years, beat a case I was facing 35 years on, won another case to get my license back when I was supposed to have it revoked permanently, got into sober living, graduated from my outpatient treatment, got an MRI for my head after three years of not knowing if I was going to be okay since I got hit in the back of the head with a machete by my abusive ex, got my dog his shots, went from 89 pounds to 128 pounds.... All of that happened in just under 8 months!! Today I cried happy tears for myself for the first time ever in my whole life. I’ve completely turned my life around, and it’s taken less time to make it better than it did to ruin it.

Whatever you’re going through, no matter how low… if you want to get sober and live better, you can do it!!!