Life Lessons Learned in Rehab

The Daily Courier
Kelowna, British Columbia
November 20, 2007

I have spent the past 28 days in rehab for alcoholism at A Home Away here in Kelowna.

I am a 32-year-old mother of three kids struggling with addiction to alcohol. Never did I imagine myself having to enter rehab for addiction until I just about lost my life to this disease, after what seems like forever hiding my abuse. The tough-love approach combined with sincere caring have given me my life back.

Alcoholism and other addictions affect all sectors of this society. My friends from A Home Away represent every profession and class imaginable.

I have learned many things from my month here apart from the fact that my kids deserve their mama back (sober), that aloneness does not equal loneliness, that there is a fundamental truth that people are good and kind and generous, and that there is a decency in the human race. Not bad for 28 days.

R. Pound,
Guest at A Home Away