We are all here for the same reason, recovery, recovery works.
I'm taking this recovery coach training to learn a little more about myself and where I'm at in my journey of recovery,
and also to learn how I can help others.
I believe this will help me in my own personal recovery,
as well as help me in giving back to younger people that need as much guidance and support as they can get along their journey for recovery.
Our town is very soaked in people who need help, and I just want to give back and repair the damage that I've helped create.
I would like to make a career out of helping other suffering addicts.
I run Clean Slate Recovery Center out of Logan County.
I've been in the recovery field for over three years now, so new learning is great.
I want to further my career.
Get more educated about how to coach my peers.
Better assist the clients that I work with.
And be an effective life and recovery coach for individuals I work with in my own business, Grace Christian Recovery, and the Inside Out Community Reentry Program.
I've also learned how great it can be and how motivational you can be working with other people.
Working with others is good.
I've tried working by myself for a long time, and I didn't find that as easy.
I've learned through working with others that there are many things I've always done instinctively, and yet there's a lot of things you can learn to do that even makes it better.
I've learned that everybody's different, that everybody has a story, and that what works for one person doesn't always work for the next person.
We all walk our paths differently.
Some of us walk slowly, some of us run, some of us just dive right in.
Everybody is an individual person.
No one else can tell somebody what they need.
What their stuff is might not be my stuff.
Let them find their own journey without trying to force them in any certain direction.
Through that interaction, there's opportunities for change.
What's next for me as a coach is to implement what I've learned and help other people so they can further their recovery.
And help other single mothers or single fathers with their addiction and keeping their families connected.
I'm going to be working with Clean Slate Recovery in Logan County and help network and build a better support in our area.
To take the rest of the classes I need to be a certified professional recovery.
To help young people who are beginning their journey to recovery.
Get some work in a detox center so that I can help some of those people.
To developing more awareness and advocacy predictions and being a change agent that produces hope in people's lives.
What's next for me as a coach is to continue taking these training classes and become more knowledgeable,
more educated in the area of coaching and the area of assisting clients and to give them hope, to give them pride.
To let them know that there's a life other than being an addict.
And to share my story with them to know that there is a light at the end of that dark tunnel.
Some people before me were kind enough to grace me with their knowledge and share their stories with me over recovery.
And I feel that it is the least I can do but share mine and help somebody else get the crevice that I have.
