Stella Fish

MY NAME IS STELLA FISH!  I WANT TO START BY THANKING MY FAMILY, PASTOR DIXIE AND ALL MY FRIENDS BUT A REALLY BIG THANK YOU TO GOD FOR GIVING ME A SECOND CHANCE AT LIFE.  I WAS ABOUT 16 WHEN MY ADDICTION STARTED. AT THE TIME I WAS STRUGGLING WITH NOT SEEING MY DAD BUT MY ADDICTION WAS TAKING OVER MY TEN YEARS I WAS SELF-MEDICATING. BY THE TIME I WAS 18 I FOUND OUT I WAS PREGNANT.  I QUIT DRINKING AND STARTED DOING RIGHT. AFTER MY PREGNANCY I MET A GUY AND MY ADDICTION STARTED AGAIN ON THE LAST DAY I HAD CALLED MY DAD THE ONLY PART I REMEMBER WAS MY DAD TAKING ME TO THE ER.  THEY ADMITTED ME TO A DETOX AFTER MY DETOX MY DAD AND STEPMOM TOLD ME I NEED TO GO TOO.  I CALLED THE WIN GS OF FREEDOM PROGRAM THEY SAID THEY HAD A BED OPEN. WITHIN A WEEK I CAME TO THE PROGRAM. I DIDN’T THINK THE PROGRAM WAS GOING TO DO ANYTHING FOR ME.   THIS PROGRAM HAS TAUGHT ME A LOT. I HAVE HAVE OVERCOME SO MANY PROBLEMS AND STARTED GETTING MY LIFE  BACK TOGETHER. I HAVE A REALLY GOOD JOB AND I MADE BETTER FRIENDS.  THE PROGRAM HAS LET ME FIND THE GOOD IN MYSELF AGAIN. TODAY MARKS 6MONTHS OF ME BEING SOBER. I DID THIS FOR MYSELF BUT MOST OF ALL FOR MY SON AND DAD. I PLAN TO STAY AND CONTINUE TO BE BETTER IN THE PROGRAM, IN THE FUTURE I HOPE TO BE A POSITIVE INFLUENCE TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE STRUGGLED LIKE ME.