My name is Samantha. I'm 26 years old, I'm also a recovering addict. I've been sober for going on 10 months now. But this isn't my first go at it. I was sober 6 years when I relapsed on meth in 2016 and eventually moved on to heroin. When they say if you go back out there you pick off where you left off and just get worse, they mean it. In a matter of 2 months, I went from a size 9 to a size 0. I lost everything. I violated my probation and spent the remaining 5 months in prison. I got out and still went back. I wasn't a size 0 this time so I thought I had it under control, I definitely didn't. I left both of my babies with my dad because I thought that what was best. I went from being all my kids knew- into being a visit to the park once a month. I had so many failed attempts to get clean. I reached the point I didn't care if I lived or not even hoping that I wouldn't. I knew I was destroying my family, especially my babies. Everyone had given up on me by this point. I just couldn't seem to get it. Christina has known me most of my life so when she reached out to me one day wanting to take me to lunch I knew that I would have to be sober for at least 3 days to get through the worst part so she wouldn't know. She just has an aura about her of someone you can't let down. Our lunch dates last a couple of weeks before I started having excuses and ignoring her messages. Within a month of me not seeing her I had overdosed not once but twice, within two weeks of each other. That last time scared me enough to realize I couldn't do it anymore. Christina was the only person who was there. Who cared enough and trusted me enough to come into her home. God placed her in my life again because he knew she was what he could use to help save me. Today, I have my babies back, a home, a vehicle, an amazing fiance, and all of my family back. Don't ever stop believing in yourself! #WeDoRecover

Hello, My name is Ashley Stanley I was a Heroin and meth IV user for 2 and a half years before that it was pills. On June 14th, 2019 I decided I had to get clean I lived in Huntington, In. I didn't have a house of my own I had been living in a place to place since I got released from jail in January. I tried every halfway house in Huntington county and got denied multiple times once the excuse was I didn't have a felony so recovery works wouldn't fund me and I had no money the second excuse they used was I had an active warrant for court fines. Well, I decided to go stay at my ex's house to get clean and then jail by the 3rd day I couldn't take it I had been trying to get people to bring me drugs all weekend. Come Sunday, June 16th I was ready to give up and go get high just to feel normal. My mom came over and called my cousin Wendy Quinley who then called Christina white she called me a while later and asked me how ready I was and for my address. And hr later she was at my place to pick me up. The whole way to Parkview I was crying thinking this isn't going to work- no one ever helps me, I always have to do things on my own. Christina promised me everything will be fine it's going to be hard but you will love it. She usually drops people off at the ER but she came in with me and sat there till 10 pm-ish. I instantly knew I would love her forever the next day I was taken to PBH to detox and she came to visit to make sure I was doing ok. On June 19th she came to pick me up from PBH and had got me accepted to a halfway house where I am currently living working on my sobriety and my relationship with God which grows stronger every day. Christina white is a Gift from god his self that not only helps you get sober but helps you save your own life. Today I am 6 weeks and 1 day clean from all drugs and couldn't be happier where I am at and going in my life! I absolutely love you Christina you will forever be my family!

I have been battling addiction since I was fifteen years old, but the past seven years I have been battling the worst fight of my life, a heroin addiction. I have been to prison, lost a husband and fiancé to overdoses among countless friends, lost everything I’ve ever owned, gave my children up and hurt them more times than I can count, got better got everything back to only lose it all again. I’ve done this off and on for seven long years. In January I started using iv use again and from there it spiraled out of control. In the end, I was shooting a gram and a half a day in my neck cause I had blown out every other vein in my body. On June 10th I woke up and decided I was done I couldn’t take it anymore it was do or die, so I reached out to my cousin Harmonie and she came from Indiana and picked me up in Ohio with the belongings I did still have left and brought me to Ft. Wayne to detox. The first attempt was horrible and that’s when I met Christina, my angel, and my forever friend. She came and got me from the first hospital and took me to PBH in Ft. Wayne and I finished my detox. When it was over she picked me up and took me to church with her and then brought me to the home I’m at now in Auburn. She literally saved my life and today I am 45 days clean from all mood-altering substances and am actually living not just surviving. I got baptized on July 21st and I have devoted my life to Jesus and need him daily not just on Sunday. I’m not perfect but I am better then I used to be and so thankful that not only Christina but God himself found my life worth saving. Everyday gets better and I am still in contact with Christina all the time. She messages me I love you every couple days and stops in to visit and check on me from time to time. She is my guardian angel and I am so lucky God sent me to here. I’m sober today because she believed I could and would make it! I love her with all my heart