Stories of Hope

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Kathleen

When I came to Shepherd's Door I was homeless and I didn't want to live anymore. I lost everything, I didn't take care of myself and I didn't care about myself. I had so much shame and guilt that I never worked through and it all came crashing down.

Coming into Shepherd's Door, I'm getting to the heart of why I have done the same things I have done over the years. I never understood or I never saw that before. You know I felt like I scratched the surface in other treatment programs. I did get better but as I could see now I went back to my addiction because I didn't get to the deep, deep root of the problems.

I have never felt so safe in my life as I have at Shepherd's Door. And I didn't know that because I didn't know how safe I could feel. That safety and the love here gives me an opportunity to go way deep where I never ever could before, and it's just incredible.

What I love about Shepherd's Door and about the programs they have here is that I am responsible for myself. Here I am able to make sense of everything in my past and everything that has happened. It just puts the pieces of the puzzle together for me.

Shepherd's Door is an incredible place for recovery. It's a place to get to the root. To me this is the piece that is missing so much from recovery of other treatment centers. To me this is it. I know God brought me to Shepherd's Door for myself. But I can see myself in Shepherd's Door being a part of what happens here. I just feel what we need in recovery is Shepherd's Door.