Success Stories
SUCCESS STORY
“MY WINTER VACATION”
By Tate W.
When I left home I was broke, I was cold I was sick and I was alone. I said that sentence to myself and thought that maybe I was ready to write the “perfect” Country & Western song. It sounds funny but it wasn’t, it was the truth and it was real. Today I may be broke in the sense of money but I feel like a million dollars. I may be a little old, a little green, a little worn out and a little spent, but I am still really valuable.
I have been telling people the “Narconon Program” has worked despite me. I was very closed minded toward the program to the point of being cold. I did not want to do any of the things that the program called for and I didn’t want to listen to any of what I thought were “foolish” methods, the only thing foolish was me. I was as bad an addict as there could be. No addict has any “war Stories” more horrible than mine. I was so low I couldn’t reach up to touch bottom. How could I feel that way about a program I knew so little about – “Mankind has always been scared of things strange and new to them, “right there is it I was scared”. I was sick and I was scared and I was alone, I remember Cheryl telling me it is something you have never heard of or seen before. Lets face it folks I have done enough 12 step programs to do a waltz across the great state of Texas.
I have been through so many so called treatment programs it was always the same result. I was sick when I arrived and I was sick when I was told I was better. I was pissed off when I had spent $100,000. On recovery and I never felt recovered. Once I was sent to the hospital for recovery and the doctor told me “you will be out in 4 days” and I told him I am getting out now because I don’t start to get sick before 4 days. Same doctor kept me another time for 12 days and I wasn’t any better after the dozen days, but he told me I was detoxed. I knew better, the 14th day I had a withdrawal seizure and I fell and my head crashed through a lamp leaving me with 29 stitches in my forehead. The doctor told me you must have taken something or smoked pot. I hadn’t. He didn’t even test me. This is the same doctor who introduced me to large amounts of his quick fix cures, XANAX this will take care of everything and handle the depression. I may have been a little depressed but who doesn’t get depressed. I certainly was more depressed after his cure. So much for the past.
My message is really simple, the Narconon Program has worked for me and it will work for you too. That “I didn’t work the program, the program worked me” and because it worked me and I feel so grateful about “feeling good” about feeling good that I know that I will always want to reach out to others and say “You knew me before and you know me now, this is what works”. You saw me when I came in and you see me now all you have to do is keep coming back. God Bless the Narconon Staff, somebody sent me here but I know God sent you!!!!!!
12/15/07
Dear Cheryl, <Executive Director, Narconon Florida>
In two days I will be celebrating 1 whole year off of drugs. I can’t thank you enough for all you have done for me. You gave me the opportunity to change my life and the technology to succeed and truly live for the first time. I took some time tonight to reflect upon this past year and compare it to how things were before. Since I have graduated Narconon, I have returned to school, learned how to be independent, responsible and build friendships that mean the world to me. I will be receiving A’s this semester in my classes and I am thrilled to be going to England this summer for study abroad at Cambridge. Since I was 16, I have been battling drug addiction and was put on numerous anti-depressants. I could not imagine life without drugs. By the time I came to Narconon I was no longer functioning, was a danger to myself and others, had been homeless, been to many rehabs, lost all trust from my family, lost self respect, had been failing at any attempts to go to school, and basically had lost all hope…. I felt broken. My life today has improved beyond my wildest dreams. I battle normal life issues and there is much work and improvement to be made. However, I can sleep tonight and wake up tomorrow knowing the nightmare is over. Without you, the program, staff and my willingness to change, I truly believe this would not have been possible. Thank you. Narconon will always be a home away from home to me.
Love, A
April 10, 2008
Success Story
OMG!!! This Narconon Program has truly changed my life, the way I feel, the way I think is truly amazing. I’ve always wanted to feel what happiness felt like; but until I came to Narconon Florida, I didn’t know how to get there. I am going to be applying what I have learned in all the course work to my everyday’s for the rest of my life. I feel that all the staff members here truly care and want us to succeed in living a drug free life and that they will go above and beyond the call of duty if that is truly what you want. There is a reason why you need to follow the rules and go through the course work no matter how stupid you feel what the courses are asking you to do.
I am now living a drug free life along with being as health, happy, moral, ethical person. I will be forever grateful to Narconon Florida and the staff that has helped me get where I am today.
DM
01/22/08
Success Story
Wow, what an experience in the new life detoxication program at Narconon. Who would have thought that I would have sat in a sauna for 3-31/2 hrs. a day for 35 consecutive days and felt great about it. As the days accumulated I was having all kinds of realizations going on. One realization was that I no longer have the toxins of cocaine in my system. What a feeling.
S.F.
06/04/07
SUCCESS STORY
I am in Aw! I can't believe I made it. As this all started I was willing but it didn't seem as though I was able. I allowed old patterns to cloud my judgment and decision making. With and only with the support from everyone @ Narconon Florida and my family and the big guy above, I have found my self in the best situation I have ever been in my life. My whole drug life I have been in search of a program that my beliefs agreed with and Narconon is the one most
positive and successful program anyone could ever chose to do!
Thanks Narconon Florida
H.K.
01/19/07
Success Story
I was absolutely addicted to prescription medication, which I some what blame on the physicians who gave me a prescription of some drug for everything that ailed me. I had plenty of blame in this also I was able to come off of everything I was on, and boy was I on a lot; at least 7 different drugs. I was diagnosed bi-polar and given medication for that also.
I'm so fortunate to have found Narconon Florida, I was able to get off everything I was taking. I even did it without withdrawals, what a wonderful feeling. Cheryl and her entire staff were behind me and it made me want to be clean even more. I 'm so happy now, I got my life back, I have a wonderful boyfriend that I was about to lose because he was so sick of the drugs and the lies I would give to get them. I couldn't have done it on my own. Narconon Florida has been a blessing in my life!
I'm so glad I went through the program and would highly recommend it to anyone wanting to live their life free from drugs and their lasing effects.
R. H.
02/02/2005
Success Story
Objective 1 was quite an adventure for me, since I had never done objectives before. Since the day I arrived at Narconon Florida, I have been struggling with keeping my mind in present time. Truthfully, I have spent most of my time throughout my life stuck in either the past or worrying about the future. This is really such a waste of time because if a person never really takes the time to enjoy the moment or all the beautiful things around them, what is the point of living. Doing objective 1 made me feel like I could really appreciate things around me that typically I would never even acknowledge or maybe even notice. I could not believe how much happier I was by the end of the session, because for once I wasn’t stuck in my head dwelling in an unnecessary misery. I hope that I continue to get more and more out of the sessions, even though they may be frustrating at time. I believe it will be worth it.
Z.L. May 7, 2008
Narconon Clearwater, FL
May 8th 2008
To whom it may concern;
Just a line or two to let you guys know how wonderful I feel since joining the program 30 days ago, March 5, 2008. When I came to the sauna program, I was going through some tough times. I had lost 30lbs and at age 57 and addicted to pain pills and just coming from xxx Detox for seven days, looked like I was 65. My first couple of days wee painful and did not think I would ever be free of the drug that almost ruined my life. When I first started on the treadmill, I could barely walk for 15 minutes and had to hold on to the bars for support and that was a speed of 1.5. As I went through the program, I started to fill better and after 8 days I was now at 2.9 on the treadmill and did not need to hold on to the bars-WOW. After 2 weeks or 16 days I was actually running for two minutes & now doing 25 minutes, speed 3.8-WOW-what a feeling. Today, May 8th, after 30 days with vitamins and the workout, I have gained 30lbs & now look like a new man. But the sauna proved to be the most important part. Sweating out all the toxins; I am now free of all drugs and I feel Wonderful. I just want to thank the staff at Narconon Florida for helping me get clean and getting my life back on track. This sauna program really works. I can attest to this. Special thank to Tate W. who help convince me that this program was right for me. Also to Cheryl who always had a moment to talk about how things were going and explaining certain processes of the program. But the most important person on the staff, who guided me, who inspired and yes, who mothered me through the whole process, Patricia G.=Mother Patty, without her, this program would not have been a success. You guys have turned my life around and even though I am only 40 days clean, with the tools that Patty and Narconon Florida have given me, I am back to my old self and I feel wonderful –WOOHOO!. There is help out there and I am glad I found it at Narconon Florida. This program works and I recommend it to all that are looking to get back your life. Please feel free to talk with me, I can talk your head off as to why this is the program that can turn your life around.
Again, thanks to the staff at Narconon Florida for helping me become a drug free human being, you guys saved my life-WOOHOO!
P.S. I am going back to work on May 12th and I have even began doing things I thought were gone for life, thanks guys! D.W.