Hello

I've been asked, "Why sober living?" 
The most relevant answer is that I was raised in a time when I watched drugs burn through my community, turning mothers in to wolves and fathers into ghosts.  I grew up in North Philadelphia in the 80's and had a front row seat to the crippling effects the crack epidemic had on my community.  Watching the deconstruction of an otherwise healthy familial structure left a strong impression on me.  It cemented a strong aversion to drugs, having watched both parents succumb to alcoholism and drug addiction.  What it also did was left me with scars that needed healing through therapy and it was in that pursuit I learned how strong a grip substance abuse can have, how it transforms you into someone new, someone who would do things the old version of themselves never would.  Pain kept me from having the compassion necessary to understand what substance abuse does to a parent, a brother, a sister, a child.  It wasn't until I began to heal that I could extend the grace I held for myself to the victims of this disease.  I'm an entrepreneur at heart and when I learned about the existence of sober living homes and the good they do, everything in me screamed that this was the calling for me, my chance to help give people their loved ones back, to give children their parents back. 
So when people ask me why did I choose sober living, I say, life chose for me.