was introduced to Return to Reality after struggling with a horrible addiction to alcohol and other drugs for most of my life. I was a hopeless alcoholic and addict that had accepted that my life would never change...that I would die in my addiction. I couldn't stay out of jail and prison that's just where my disease took me. I was given the opportunity to go to Return to Reality as an alternative to another trip to prison. The very first thing the house manager said to me was "welcome home." It had been years since anyone had welcomed me anywhere!!

The women in that recovery house were like family to me. I was truly home for the first time in years!! I lived at Return to Reality for 13 months, got a job, went to AA meetings, got a sponsor and a Home Group and began to learn to live life again. I was given many gifts while living at Return to Reality but the greatest gifts of all was I was given an opportunity to build a relationship with God. Through God and Alcoholics Anonymous I have managed to stay clean and sober 2 years and 8 months - one day at a time.

Today, I have a home, I have my children back, I have a job and I have a 12 step program among many, many other blessings that all stemmed from the opportunities I was given by being welcomed home to Return to Reality and given a set of rules to follow that gave me structure. I am forever grateful to God, AA and Return to Reality for my life today!!!!

Sandra S.

arrived at Return to Reality after completing a lenghty jail sentence followed by an 8 month treatment facility. While at the house, I was happy with the feeling that it felt like a "home". We were required to attend at least 5 NA or AA meetings, of our choice, per week, and for that I am eternally grateful. I was miserable long enough to want what the recovery home had to offer me in the way of help, by introducing me to 12 step meetings, and giving me a spiritual based home. I acquired a job and was able to get my own home within 6 months. I am happy to say that I still attend as many AA meetings as I can per week, and I attend because I want to.....I want to stay alive and happy, and that is what my stay at Return to Reality taught me to do! I have been clean and sober for over 4 years now and am grateful for the home I had there.

Renee C.

was introduced to Return 2 Reality when I was released from a transition center. It was a last minute decision because my home plan situation had changed. I was in a predicament where I didn't have anywhere to go and didn't know anyone who would take me in. I moved into Return 2 Reality in April of 2008. I struggled with an addiction that took me down a road I NEVER would have imagined traveling on. I had no family left that would have anything to do with me; I had no friends and no one I could trust. The first thing the house manager said to me was, "Welcome Home." I cried like a baby because like so many other women, it had been a long time since I was welcome anywhere. I formed a bond with so many wonderful people because of the recovery house. I was introduced to a 12 Step Program that saved my life as well. If it hadn't been for the structure and rules I had to follow in order to keep a roof over my head, I would most likely be dead right now. I am very grateful that God put me where I needed to be at that time. I have a whole new family now - the wonderful women I bonded with at Return 2 Reality and the ones that I've met in AA.

Tamara B.