What has recovery given you?

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• Life with my children
• A new lease on life
• Literally EVERYTHING!
• A chance to rebuild relationships and myself in a way that i love, and to be of service to another addict or alcoholic
• Freedom
• A second chance
• Purpose
• Freedom
• Life
• A relationship with God, peace, and serenity.
• Love
• MORE LIFE
• Hope
• The chance to become a better father
• Myself, the Avenues community, and a career at Avenues
• Hope
• The ability to help others and choose recovery
• My children, my fiancé, and my own business.
• My life and my family
• The opportunity to live a happy life!
• Appreciation for all the blessings in my life, a clear mind and eyes to see the true beauty of this world and my place in it.
• My life back, happiness, laughter, my son his real mom back
• A way to find a solution or a blessing - no matter how bad things may get, a will to live, a new purpose and relationship with god.
• Rebirth, life, a new beginning, my family
• Peace and serenity
• My life back
• The chance to: be a good person, daughter, sister, partner, friend & employee, to advocate for others, the tools to navigate through life with kindness, forgiveness, understanding & empathy
• A life worth living
• Gratitude
• Everything that my addiction had taken.
• Self-love
• A way to help people
• The tools to master my demons
• Freedom
• Peace of mind
• Open doors to help others
• Freedom
• A new, good life and good friends
• Enjoyment of life
• Freedom, family, community, career, strength, knowledge, purpose, belonging, brothers and sisters
• My happiness, my children, my grandchild, a new love, hope, peace, serenity, new opportunities!
• Everything! My family, my  friends, trust, respect, dependability, my whole life
• My sanity, my  wife and son, my higher power, my life
• Purpose and the direction to start a new life
• Freedom to get to know myself, be a present person to the people who love me, and the ability to chase my dreams. No worry. True happiness. Ability to help others. A fellowship of men and women to lean on.
• Freedom
• Life with purpose
• The chance to help others. A relationship with my son. Freedom. A relationship with Christ.
• My life back
• Jared Schorle
• Peace of mind
• The will to live again!
• A renewed sense of purpose
• A life worth living