“Almost two years ago I was in The Watershed with some amazing people who like me were fighting addiction. I was grateful for another chance- yet I felt lost, afraid, broken and alone. I was fighting so hard to hang on and struggling to let go of the things I had done and change the person that I had allowed myself to become! Truth is I hated who I was! I was still pretty sick because I had been on hospice due to cirrhosis of the liver, and I wasn't supposed to survive. My life was a mess and my family was falling apart. But something deep inside told me to trust God, trust the doctors, trust the nurses, trust the counselors and just keep holding on and everything would get better. I decided to give it my all. Let me say that my life is amazing today. I have been clean and sober 1 year, 9 months and 17 days (for the first time in over 20 years) and in that short time my life has changed so much! All the pieces are really starting to fall into place and all the things I had lost I am gaining back, plus so much more. I love my children and grandchildren so very much and I have them all in my life today and there was a time I didn't think that was possible. I am learning to love and forgive myself and others and with that forgiveness has come so much peace. I am also getting healthier each day that passes by, when I entered The Watershed I was really doubting weather or not I would be able to change and we all knew if I didn’t I would not live!! Life isn't perfect, but it is AMAZING!! I believe now, that everything happens for a reason, and the reason everything played out the way it did in my life to me is very simple- It was so I would truly appreciate being alive and realize what a gift life is! I am thankful for so much today, but most of all I am thankful that when I gave up on myself, other people didn't. The Watershed was always there for me anytime I was in need of help and they never once turned me away. They loved me and believed in me when I couldn't love or believe in myself. I am forever grateful to God and to The Watershed for helping me to get to this place in my life.”