The time is coming close for me to celebrate my 2 years anniversary and I can’t help but think back to my stay and time spent at Crossroads.  So many wonderful things have come about in my life in the past 2 years that I wanted to share them with you. Because of all of you that I feel I was able to start building such an unshakable foundation for my recovery.

I have so many fond memories of Crossroads from the moment I walked into the door at midnight and was greeted by the amazing nursing staff I felt home. All of you truly have made such an impact on my life that I can still see all of your faces anytime I close my eyes.

Since leaving Crossroads I have an amazing job that has helped me to start a journey of a passion I realized I had while I was at Crossroads and that is to become a Yoga instructor and to help others on a journey of enlightenment and health. I have an amazing sponsor that I meet with every week, I'm starting to sponsor girls and I go to meetings everyday. Another amazing thing is I found the love of my life and have gotten married. My husband is also in AA and it is such a beautiful thing to have a marriage with someone who shares the same way of life and principals as myself.

I truly look forward to the day when I can participate in the renewal program that you have now started and to bring my husband so he can also experience this magical place that I feel so lucky to have been apart of. There is not a day that goes by that I don't thank my higher power for giving me the opportunity to come to Crossroads and start to rebuild my life and I am so grateful to each and every one of you for helping me along the way. Crossroads not only saved my life, it gave me a new one as well!

Jody, FL

Thanking everyone at Crossroads for all their support while in treatment and after leaving; it has been so helpful. Recovery is going well, getting to many meetings, working with a sponsor and building on the foundations set down while in Antigua and at The Sanctuary afterwards.

Thanks so much,

Dominic, United Kingdom.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support I have received since I left Crossroads. Especially during my last depression episode for which I was hospitalized.

It is gratifying to know that the care doesn’t end when one leaves treatment and I’m grateful. I received support from alumni and support staff (Clinical Outreach Consultant) in my region who rang regularly which enabled me to recovery quickly.

Thank you all again,

Dorothy, United Kingdom

I am a Crossroads alumni from November 2001 and celebrated 8 years this past fall. I have been very active in the program since my stay at Crossroads and have volunteered as well as worked service for many local meetings in my region.

I owe Crossroads a debt of gratitude for the help I received in early recovery and it set the bar for my sobriety which I believe is very strong mainly from the tools I learned while I was going through the Crossroads program 8 years ago. Of course that was just a start, however without the foundation of the Crossroads program it would have been much harder to get a good foundation to build my recovery upon.

Thank you,

Scott, TX

I remember when I was getting ready to leave Crossroads at the beginning of December 2009; I really did not understand the importance of an aftercare program that my counselor kept suggesting to me. In retrospect, I am so grateful to my counselor for setting up the "aftercare" recommendations. I will tell you if it were not for the aftercare coming back from Antigua I doubt I would be sober today.

The aftercare program gave me a daily structure in my first month returning home and it also gave me an opportunity to really share my feelings in a safe group and the trauma I was feeling being back in the "real" world and coping with the stress of day to day pressures.

I finished their day program which I went to for three weeks and now have transitioned to their night program and also returned to work.  I am doing the night program for three months in addition to going to 12 step meetings. I am currently averaging 4 to 5 meetings a week and working on building a sober network.

Overall, I am good and so grateful to my counselor and the staff at Crossroads.  If it were not for their experience, knowledge and support I doubt I would have made the progress that I have.  I would strongly encourage anyone contemplating residential treatment to go to Crossroads. The level of personal care (being a small residential treatment centre) and insight and experience of the counselors coupled with Crossroad's majestic setting of Antigua gave me the courage and hope to walk through the wall of fire.

Sincerely,

Louis, CA

I am a living miracle, absolutely nothing short of it. I celebrated 3 years clean and sober on Feb. 5, 2010. After surrendering "my thinking" in favor of the thinking of Recovery, I can say that almost instantaneously something happened to my attitude and commitment. I became concerned more with consequences, actions, contentment for right now, living spiritual principles in ALL my affairs, killing the ego and cleaning out life-taking defects. From my experience, applying these actions has put me (recovering alcoholic/drug addict) in a position that is behaving "Thank you in motion"(gratitude).

I participated in the inaugural group of the Renewal Program January 18-22, 2010; talk about a blessing. The facility is comfortable, luxurious and beautiful. Next to being totally blown away that I was actually involved in this phenomenal experience was the inheritance of spiritual and emotional growth through my participation in the groups and lectures ("Spirituality" and "Recovery Revitalization"). An absolutely wonderful group which included sobriety time of up to 20 and 32 years. We opened up to each other, bonded, cried and ate together and went to meetings together. The experience was wonderful.

Meeting and growing with fellow human beings seeking a greater internalization of spirituality, gaining new information along with being reminded of the basics and their absolute importance to my continued recovery has helped me tremendously in staying grounded in what is really important to me. Becoming a better human being one day at a time, one moment at a time, and one interaction at a time by applying spiritual principles in my life. And that is my "Thanks In Motion". I am very, very grateful.

Thanks,

Devon, Antigua

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