Ep 55: A Scholarship Helped Me Come Back
In this episode we hear from Nicole T., a medical professional who went through MARR when she was 19 years old, long before her career started. Later, as her career was getting going, she relapsed and...
View ArticleEp 56: How I Learned Self-Acceptance
Self-acceptance is an important part of recovery. Growing up gay in a community where that wasn’t accepted, Keith W. felt flawed—like something was wrong with him. When he found drugs and alcohol, he...
View ArticleEp 57: Enough Dope to Kill a Baseball Team
How does a person go from living in the woods and running from bloodhounds to holding his community accountable to protect his fellow clients in treatment? At our treatment centers, we use community...
View ArticleThe Fear You Are Feeling Is Real
We all face moments where we are completely overwhelmed by the problems we are facing and the situations we find ourselves in. At these times, all of the strengths, tools, and strategies that seemed to...
View ArticleThe Pastor Addicted to Pills, Booze, and Applause
After college, Gil spent a short time as a police officer who was addicted to drugs but was also arresting people for drugs. He thought that if he became a pastor like his father, he could maybe clean...
View ArticleI'm Going to Keep It Raw
Jasmine shares about her transformative experience as part of MARR’s Right Side Up program. Before coming to RSU, she lived in a room where she blocked out all the light. While in treatment, she...
View ArticleGratitude and Resentment Can't Exist at the Same Time
Caitlin started drinking at 15, around the same time that her mom was diagnosed with cancer. By the time she was 20, Caitlin’s mother had passed away, and her father was also sick and dying of cancer....
View ArticleI Had an Opiate Addiction but I Thought I Could Drink
Despite a significant opiate addiction, Eric was making good money and eventually was even offered a position as vice president at his company. Initially, he had thought drugs were just providing a...
View ArticleThe Doctor Who Wanted to Die
“That’s when I found God.” This is how Christopher recalls what it felt like to take hydrocodone for the first time. But before long, his addiction took a brutal hold of his life in the middle of a...
View ArticleHow I Learned to Stop Enabling and Start Helping
Between her former husband, her brother, and her sister-in-law, Melissa had been surrounded by people in active addiction for years. She was loaning money, bailing people out of jail, and doing...
View ArticleWhat a Non-Addict Learned from People in Recovery
When you are entrusting yourself or your loved ones into the care of a counseling staff, you want to know what those counselors are like, what they care about, and how they treat the clients. On this...
View ArticleThe Shame I Couldn't Talk About
Anna K., an anesthesiologist with over 20 years of sobriety, vividly describes an unforgettable night when she gave herself a combination of the narcotics she would administer to patients. This crisis...
View ArticleEverything at MARR Was Practice for Life After
Tad was well-known in the Atlanta community as a successful real estate developer. Then he was arrested for a DUI and made the news. In treatment he learned that his business success didn’t necessarily...
View ArticleMy Family's Boundaries Got Me Into Treatment
Herschel was stuck in a rut, but he didn’t know he was an alcoholic. He just thought he was binge drinking a few nights a week. Whenever he ended up in jail as a result of his drinking, a family member...
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