|
 Providing a firm foundation for future sobriety via outstanding treatment is The Watershed’s goal for clients while in rehab; offering those same people the ability to build upward in sobriety after discharge is the focus of the Watershed’s Alumni Department and Program. That’s where Alumni Department Manager Rebecca Balko comes in with her figurative wheelbarrow of bricks and mortar.
Since joining the Watershed staff in October 2006, Rebecca may be tiny of stature but she’s a robust positive force to be reckoned with, aiming her sights on the department’s growth, enhancement and helping-hand potential. Rebecca, who celebrated 20 years clean and sober on October 4, 2008, is as passionate about the continued sobriety of The Watershed alumni as she is about her own.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
My name is Siobhan. I am a (now)41 year old female from Albuquerque, New Mexico. As of today, April 8,2009 I have 1 year clean & sober!!!!!!
I owe credit for this amazing accomplishment to God, the fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous, my friends in & out of the rooms, my sponsor(s), and The Watershed! WHAT A RIDE IT'S BEEN!!!
I arrived at the Shed a broken, battered, angry, scared & doped up little girl. The first few days of Detox I hardly remember, except for not wanting to admit I was an addict. I swore I only used my "meds" for pain. HA! No normal person I know needs over 500 pills every 25 days!!! But there you have it, I'm not normal. I'm an addict.
About the 4th or 5th day, with the help of my counselors, therapists & psychiatrists, I was ready to admit I was an addict. But now what? How do I live? How do I change? How do I fix all the crap I've gotten myself into?
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Alumni Staff |
 |
|
Your Watershed Alumni Staff Celebrating Cinco De Mayo
Believe it or not they really did get some work accomplished that day.
They are actually a hard-working and a fun-loving group. We will be showing their more serious side in the very near future.
|
 When I came into recovery my life was in shambles. I had blown people off, made more enemies than friends, and filled my phonebook with negative people. The druggy friends (and by druggy friends I mean people with whom I had no connection with other than a shared desire to abuse drugs) I had made were easily erased from my numbers. They didn’t care where I was, and I’m still not entirely sure they even noticed my absence.
The harder boundaries to set were ones that dealt with friends that drink, but are not alcoholics and are really good friends. These people are the ones I truly care for, the ones I miss that I want in my life. They are also the ones that don’t understand my new situation, they don’t realize I can’t go out for a drink anymore, and that no not even “one” would be appropriate. Talking to this group is certainly a challenge.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
|
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
This Month We Have 184 Celebrants with a Total of 437 Years!!!
is seeking your input. Write about how you have changed since treatment. How have you handled situations that have arisen during your recovery? Tell us about becoming and /or striving for "Happy, Joyous and Free". What has worked and helped you to stay clean and sober just might help someone else. Send us your Story. 