I sit in his office. It is the first time I am willing to be honest, about anything. About all of it. About what hurts and what doesn’t and where...
“Why do you drink? What is it that alcohol does for you,” asked my counselor in our very first meeting. “It’s the only way I can slow down and come...
“To be nobody but yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which...
As an accomplished motivational speaker, radio personality and substance abuse advocate, Johnny Emerson Joy has spent his time in recovery lifting others up and sharing his own struggles with addiction. To help...
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived...
It started off innocently enough. I was in college at a four-year university at the end of my first semester of junior year. Finals were looming, baring their teeth with...
His Instagram account is full of hilariously relatable memes, sagely quotes and shoutouts to people celebrating milestones in sobriety. Austin Cooper’s mission? To inspire you to take recovery one day...
I grew up in a little part of Columbus, Ohio called Worthington. I consider my upbringing to be incredibly blessed. I have two great parents and an amazing younger sister....
I have been recovering for a little over two years now, and I never plan to stop. In fact, I will never be done recovering because I do not believe...
One of the hardest things for a person to do is ask for help. Usually, the darker the secret, shame, or thought, the harder it is to say out loud....