| As a native of Louisville, Kentucky, I was born and | | | | finished with marijuana and that I would never touch it |
| raised in the heart of a laid-back town. My childhood | | | | again. Then with the few friends that I had, I began a |
| was just as any other, but after high school, everything | | | | new problem, one that still lingers on my breath. It had |
| started to go downhill. My grades were less then | | | | started out as a drink or two with friends after work, |
| perfect and my dreams of attending college on a | | | | but then led to a stop at the liquor store after leaving |
| scholarship went up in flames as I was arrested for | | | | the bar. After I had come in late to work one night, as |
| possession of marijuana. Because I was eighteen | | | | drunk as could be and eventually fired, I realized that I |
| years old, I was tried as an adult. First, to shake my | | | | had yet again developed another problem. I didn't think |
| bad habit I went to see a doctor but they didn't offer | | | | of alcohol like I thought of marijuana and yet here I |
| me any advice that I already knew. Then, I went to | | | | was in the same situation. Friends suggested that I get |
| see a Louisville Hypnotherapist and it worked wonders. | | | | help and at first I disagreed, but then I finally decided |
| I was on my way to a better life and a new start at | | | | that professional help might do me some good. |
| the community college. Who knew that just a while | | | | My first visit to the Louisville addiction therapy center |
| later I would also be visiting a Louisville addiction | | | | was not a good one. I was extremely nervous and I |
| therapy center as well. | | | | was dying for a drink that I knew I couldn't have. The |
| A few months into my first semester, I was doing well | | | | woman that spoke with me sounded disapproving at |
| but my course load was getting harder. Trying to | | | | first but then realized my struggle and offered her |
| maintain a job and feeling alone, I fell to the use of | | | | services as long as I was willing to cooperate. From |
| marijuana, yet again. I used it for weeks before any | | | | the moment that I had signed the consent forms, a |
| one had said anything to me. Then one day, my | | | | burden had been lifted off of my shoulders. I was |
| professor pulled me aside and said that if I had wanted | | | | finally relieved and believed that this was my second |
| to pass her class that I had better get my life straight | | | | chance to becoming a better person, once and for all. |
| and work harder. At first I was upset, I thought, and | | | | Visiting an addiction therapy center was one of the |
| who is she to tell me that I need to get my life | | | | best things that I could have ever done for myself. I |
| together. But then I realized that she was right. If I | | | | am living a better life now and I can interact with |
| wanted to do something right instead of screwing up | | | | people in the real world now, without becoming |
| again and again I was going to have to get my life | | | | hesitant about bad habits. I can go out with friends and |
| together. | | | | have a good time, but still know in my heart that I will |
| I was clean for ninety days before the thought came | | | | never go down that bad path again. |
| back to my mind. I had promised myself that I was | | | | |
