My grandparents came to Carlsbad, picked my brother and I up, and brought us back to Wills Point. From there, I had a normal childhood. I played football up until my junior year. That summer, I started smoking weed. I smoked pot all my senior year and did not play football or really do anything. When I graduated, I started doing cocaine heavily for about a year. I decided to get my life together, and I joined the Coast Guard and started drinking heavily. While I was in the Coast Guard, I hurt my back, and I started eating pain pills heavily. Hell, I was getting them free, so why stop? When my four years were up in the Coast Guard, I did not reenlist.

I got out of the Coast Guard and started working for my grandpa laying brick, while eating pain pills and smoking weed. Eventually the pills became too expensive, so I started using meth occasionally, and then it became every day. By 2008 I was doing just about any drug that came along that would change my state of mind. That became my whole life – just getting high and jumping from job to job, because I couldn’t hold down a decent job. In 2015, I decided to try and get clean. I came to Soul’s Harbor and was soon kicked out for using kratom. For four years, I was shooting dope instead of smoking it, and that’s when my life became completely unmanageable. On July third of 2019, I came back to Souls Harbor, and I have been clean ever since, with the help of my higher power and the 12-step program.

Thank you, Soul’s Harbor, for a life I could not have imagined.