"When I first, very reluctantly, entered treatment in June of 2022, I immediately started hearing words like "alcoholic" and "addict," which made me feel uneasy because I was not one of those people. I didn’t have that kind of problem. Although my mind told me this was not for people like me, what I did know was that I had never felt as welcomed and accepted as I was by the staff at Lotus Recovery.

I quickly realized that, for the first time in my life, I was truly around people who felt and thought like me. The unrelenting compassion of those at Lotus Recovery allowed me to finally put my guard down and start to work through why I felt and acted the way I did. These people carried themselves in a way that made you gravitate toward them without even trying. They had a solution, and maybe even more importantly, they were eager and willing to share it.

In the past few years, I have had the privilege of seeing the staff continue to selflessly change lives on a daily basis. I sometimes think about how the staff at Lotus Recovery probably saved my life, but it’s really more than that—they gave me life. Turns out, I am one of "those people," and for that, I am eternally grateful."