| Dear Friend,
There are certain themes that are almost universal in recovery stories, including the need to find the right kind of help. This year COVID has added the challenge and stress of finding meetings online instead of in-person. The story below illustrates how valuable online meetings are during this pandemic. And how much they mean to those battling addictions.
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| Nick Goodwin was a Marine Corps Infantry Officer with an attitude of invincibility. Then he ran into a wall of self-doubt. One question kept coming up, morning after morning.
“On the one hand I’m telling myself I’m the strongest person alive—you’re a Marine Corps Infantry Officer, you’ve led 300 people—and then the other part of it is saying what the heck, why do I wake up in the morning convinced that I’m never going to drink again and by 7 p.m. I’m drinking again?!”
Nick decided that the reason was a combination of factors. Here’s the short version…
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Your year-end gift to support SMART allows us to grow so that we can give the gift of our self-empowering recovery tools to more people like Nick.
Because there are millions more people who, like Nick, would benefit from our program to regain their lives, we hope that you will consider giving the gift of recovery by contributing to SMART before midnight on December 31.
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| | | | | | Mark Ruth Executive Director SMART Recovery, USA |
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Checks may be mailed to:
SMART Recovery, USA 7304 Mentor Ave., Suite F
Mentor, OH 44060
SMART Recovery is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
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