I am so grateful for this place, I personally was not there on treatment, but I had my cousin there and she is just changed and finally got iff drugs. She nas been on drugs since she was like 15-16 and she got onto quite hard core drugs, she literally tried everything, she got into loads of trouble over the years, I a, loads of trouble, arrestments and so on, and this was an on going situation for a long time, all her family was suffering because of this, and we all tried to help her, and sometimes she got better sometimes worst, but she never stopped. Even when she wanted it was hard, and she got different help from different people and so on. Anyways it is a looong story. Finally we heard about this place from some friend of a friend, and it was a long while till she decided that she will give it a try. After all we heard good things about it, and hoped that it will get her off of drugs. At the beginning we heard that she is in detox and so on, and than when she was done there she was already better, and she said that they are really helping her and that they are very nice and they help her through the rough patches. Than she did the rest of the program, she said that there was a counselor, and than different courses and she got to choose some stuff that she liked. She said that was nice, cause she felt like she was hally after a long time and not stressed and so on. She could really focus on her program and really see what was off and what she had to get help with. She said she really liked it actually. At first she said she was ginna abandon cause it was rrally hard, but she was so long in this deep place that she was gonna fight her way through. I am rrally happy for her that she went to this place. And the good thing she said that tzey were more oriented towards like natural way of helping, and stuff, and she coudl do yoga and other different things, I don't remember so much anymore all the details. The place she slept was very good and the food too, she said she liked it and enjoyed it. She said she got some real friendships, and that they were all a great team and were helping each other, and they stay in touch even now after they are done with the program, this is good cause they can motivate each other in case they get some hard time or whatever, they really understand each other. So anyways for the place, I totally give it a five star, my cousin is like totally changed, she is like how we where when we were kids, she is happy and smiley again and hound some good purpose in life, and now she is hanging out with the right people.
- Ab
Manistee, MI
Every aspect of my life has improved since I went to A Forever Recovery. My dad and I have had a pretty strained relationship ever since I started using when I was 16. I love my dad and have always wanted to mend our relationship. The problem was that I couldn’t stay clean. We’d go out to lunch or dinner and he’d be wondering the whole time if I was getting high. When I would see high sober he never trusted that it was something that would last. It sucked not having his trust but the truth is I didn’t trust myself to stay clean so really, it’s not as if my dad could. I hate going to rehab. I mean everyone does but for me it wasn’t that I hated the work to get clean. I hated everything about the rehabs. The staff, the other patients, the furniture. I mean everything. I always felt so uncomfortable at those places and it was impossible for me to open up about my life when I felt so uncomfortable. When I got to A Forever Recovery I was expecting to feel the same aversion to the facility. Before I went I had decided that I would give the facility a week before I decided if I hated it or not. At AFR though I felt safe. Not right from the start because it’s impossible to feel comfortable right from the moment you walk into a rehab. Everything is completely unfamiliar and I always feel so awkward in those kinds of situations. The staff there were really patient with me though. They didn’t push me to do anything that I wasn’t completely comfortable with. They didn’t expect me to start opening up about my life the first day I was there or anything like that. There was an understanding that I was really reserved about everything and they respected that. Because of that, because I wasn’t pushed right from the start I was able to start feeling safe and comfortable there. That is what made the difference between AFR and every other rehab I’ve been to in the past. The staff cared enough about me to not push me into something I wasn’t ready for. I did feel safe there though and so I was able to get through the uncomfortable times when I didn’t want to deal with something but that I obviously needed to deal with. The other clients I went through the program with were great. Every one of us was there to get help. No one’s parent or husband or wife made them go. Each of us wanted to get help and so we were really able to help each other get through it. I made friends there that I will have for the rest of my life and who have helped me so much not only at AFR but since graduating and leaving the program. The program was hard for me, but coming home was even harder. I didn’t have any friends who didn’t get high and being at home night after night with no one to talk to and nothing to do would have driven me crazy if it weren’t for the guys at AFR that I met who were having the same problem. Having someone to talk to for hours at a time each of us making sure the other was okay and not thinking about going out and getting high was a lifesaver for me. I want to believe I would have stayed clean without that but honestly, I needed that. My relationship with my dad is so much better. Since I was 16 I’ve been wanting a real relationship with my dad and I finally have that. We can go out to lunch and he isn’t worried I’m getting high. Our conversations don’t revolve around drugs and rehab anymore and that’s honestly amazing to me. My dad finding A Forever Recovery and helping me get there was literally the best thing that’s happened to me in a really long time.
- Stephanie
Battle Creek, MI