“I began the journey of confusion and molestation at the age of 7. This chapter of my life went on until I was 16. In between all of this I became someone I didn’t like. I did some things I’m not proud of, but I want to get out. I was introduced to drugs around age 26. This chapter of my life has lasted until age 51. Now I became the person that I am and I no longer want to live this way. November 12, 2015 I made up my mind to recover from all of life’s ups and downs, love myself and others and to take life one day at a time. I want to thank Regina for bringing me to Triumph. I feel so much at peace here. This is what I have been looking for. I had built walls all around myself, not allowing anyone to get close to me. Now I feel like I can be free. Triumph is exactly what I needed. I feel so blessed to be here.”
-Triumph Client
“My issues of being bi-racial contributed to my addiction because I always felt I was on the outside looking in on the world, never being a part of or accepted. I was different. I sought after acceptance and love by being promiscuous and was pregnant at the age of 12. By that time I was drinking and smoking weed. I got pregnant again before I was a teenager. At the age of 14 I had 2 kids, beautiful girls. My mom had to work being a single parent and I have a younger sister. My drug use and the acceptance of other users made me feel included; finally I fit in. Running the streets of Chicago led me to DCFS and I voluntarily gave away my girls. This trauma I found out along with the bi-racial issues lead me to addiction to heroine, cocaine, crack and alcohol, anything I could get my hands on. I was in and out of treatment centers. But the grace of God pulled me through. I’m now a client of Dr. Nanabray, my therapist at Triumph Seminars. She’s a very spiritual lady and she’s helping me get through this process of finding myself. Thank God for putting me right where I need to be.”
-Triumph Client