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One day, I was in an all-recovery meeting and heard someone say they were in recovery from self-destruction. The moment I heard that, I immediately identified with it.

I believed that I had to be someone else for people to like me and accept me. This fake life that I chose to live was hard work, pretending to be someone else every day.

At WEconnect, we believe that people are in recovery if and when they say they are, no matter what path they take. Here are more stories of how our colleagues found their pathways.

Did they realize how horrible I felt about what I was doing to my unborn child? That I couldn’t stop on my own?

A zen parable tells the story of a mother and father who brought their daughter to a monk who lived in the desert. This story is an analogy of the experience of many who are suffering from mental health and substance use disorders.

To help eliminate stigma in the recovery community, we must change the language we all use to talk about recovery and our communities. What are these words and their associated impacts? Let’s look at a few examples.‍