My name is Adam, I’m from PEI and am now married and live with an angel in Pictou, N.S. She has to be an angel to have put up with my bullshit, and throughout it all she saw a gem. Can you imagine that, a gem. A few months ago I would of pronounced myself as dirt.

This sad lifestyle I lived ………full of hurt, pain and sadness. I have worked hard all my life but my disease of alcoholism was able to destroy my home, my family and my career. My possessions became my self-worth and dignity. My disease was always there when no one else was.

I came to Searidge broken, full of resentment, anger, rage and depression. I paced back and forth in this room. I yelled, screamed, threw fits, cried a pool of tears…. then I laughed, something I hadn’t done in a long time.

I thought, this is a waste of money and time and then something clicked. It took some deep soul searching and surrendering, these things you can’t buy or find at any treatment facility. I became grateful and in becoming grateful I became positive, with these two feelings I became hopeful. Wow, “hope” I love this. I became honest with myself. I’m in tears now writing this and they are truly tears of joy.

Where I live and what I drive doesn’t make me who I am.

I don’t know you, but I certainly feel for you because I REMEMBER where you are, I hold those memories dear to me because if I forget the pain my disease has caused me, I will be on my way to a relapse. Please don’t forget. You will get out of this great place what you put into it. Do some soul searching, what do you see?

Adam