Jon is a veteran of treatment programs. By his calculation, he has been through as many as 15. Starting with his first, after a car crash at age 25, each one has followed pretty much the same sequence. Stop drinking for a while. Relapse. Start drinking again. “I wasn’t doing anything to maintain my sobriety … Read more
Elisha Ash is all too familiar with women in addiction, Now she is helping to write the next chapter of Guiding Light as our new women’s program manager.
Living on the street is awful. Just ask Mike.
“It gets real rough, especially in the winter. It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. No sleep. You are always up, watching your back. You’re always trying to figure out where your next meal coming from.”
That was his life for years. Today he is sober, healthy and employed, with a clear-eyed understanding of how the path to homelessness and hopelessness started with his drinking at a young age.
When Brian discovered Guiding Light, he found a program committed to him for the long haul. A staff that truly cared about helping him.
New results demand new ways of acting and new ways of being — and discomfort is inherent in growth and sanctification.
“I was willing to do whatever it took. My biggest thing was responsibility. I decided, ‘I’m going to be on time for everything. I’m going to do all my work. I’m going to do whatever is expected of me.’”
When Aaron first arrived at Guiding Light, he was still harboring resentments and he thought he would never reconcile with his parents. But he has learned that reconnecting with family requires him to reconnect with himself first.
This Thanksgiving we were able to welcome Bob and Emily, a father and sister of former Guiding Light Recovery client Andrew, to speak to clients, friends, and families of Guiding Light.
The journey from darkness to light is long, made up of many steps – each of them a miracle. With grace and time, these miracles begin to add up. And every day at Guiding Light, we get to witness the result: a movement from despair to hope. From death to life.
Addison spent more than a third of his 37 years behind bars, the result of drug use since age 13. When he left prison, he still wasn’t free.
Through the guiding light of God’s Spirit, Guiding Light partners with individuals to fulfill their God-given potential through rescue, recovery and re-engagement in the community.
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