Narconon Gave Me Back My Dreams To Succeed

I would like for everyone to picture a house, a very ordinary house, a house where there should have been happiness, and a house where dreams could be realized. Instead, this house was a house of sadness, a house where dreams could not survive, but mine did. I dreamt that one day I would find who I really was and how to live a clean and sober life.

Every day I woke up, if I even went to sleep in this house, I asked God for a way out of this house of my own making. Every day was just like the day before, the getting and using of crack cocaine. Every day was a struggle not to give up hope, that I would find the help I needed, the support I needed, and the love of someone else, because I did not love myself enough to stop on my own. I did love myself just enough to seek help. Every day I searched the internet looking for a different, special, and unique place that would help me find my way back into the world of not just living, but the "healthy body, mind, and soul living."

Then one day, while searching on the web, I came across the Narconon website, decided to open up the chat icon on the site, and a man began telling me about Narconon. He explained how each phase of the program was drug-free, which meant that I would not be using other drugs to come off drugs. I began having conversations via chat, then texting on my phone with him. He answered all of my questions and made the process of getting enrolled at Narconon easier, and that made me feel wanted. He did not judge me, but shared his story of recovery with me. I didn't feel alone.

“This program allowed me to find the one true answer I had been looking for all of my life: ‘Why do I do drugs?’ I found that answer in this program.”

When I arrived at Narconon, I was made to feel like I was at home and a part of something clean, which is exactly what I wanted it to be like. I have learned through the Narconon program who I don't want to be and who I was working to become. This program allowed me to find the one true answer I had been looking for all of my life: "Why do I do drugs?" I found that answer in this program.

Narconon gave me back my dreams to succeed, my dream to excel as a human being. Now, every day, I don't dream, I DO!

—T.L., Narconon Suncoast Graduate