"Toowoomba Group Day Program"

When I first started the day program I thought to myself "I hope I can do this."  I struggled with the effort to try to overcome the feelings I have towards drugs, but once I joined the group I started to get the support that I needed, I found that it encouraged me more to show up every day. 

There were a million thoughts that I had running through my head trying to con myself out of it, but then when I sat back and thought about it I really needed to change. The life I was living wasn't the best life at all. I felt like a failure to my kids, I felt like I let them down because I should have been the one to inspire them to do so, much more than what I was doing. I really wanted them to be proud of me.

When I started the day program, everything changed. I found it so much easier to reach out to people, to trust, to let someone inside my life who would understand where I was coming from. I could open up.

The group taught me that drugs mean nothing, that it was only a self blocker. It stopped the emotions for now, but later I was going to face them worse if I kept going.  

I have achieved so much! I have become a voice for those who suffer, I have become an ear to listen to people who need to speak their truth, but most of all, I have become a friend to people who are recovering.  

Mysti and Sophie were the easiest to embark on my journey with. If you can't find anyone to open up to, it is so much harder to walk a new path.  They understood me and inspired me because they understand where I have been and where I am going.  

Today, my children are proud of me that I have accomplished so much.