Video: The Best Thing About Ventura Recovery Center
Building relationships and feeling loved was not something she expected when she came in for drug addiction treatment.
“They really want the people in here to get better. And that’s what I really like about it.”
The best thing about VRC is probably just the people, the relationships that you build in here. I like going to the Alcoholics Anonymous meetings every single day. I really just enjoy the people that I’m in touch with in the program and the people they hire to work for them. They are really just down to earth, a lot of them had the same problems with drug addiction as I’ve had. I remember coming in and living at Siesta House. Travis was cooking stuff up and he was able to talk about what it was like and what it’s like now. I could just see the light in Travis’s eyes. I thought to myself, I want that. I could have that if I kept working at this. They really want the people in here to get better. And that’s what I really like about it.
I was just tired waking up every day. I had this feeling inside of me, just this generally unhealthy feeling where not only emotionally there was a hole in my soul I was just digging it deeper. I just felt this heavy feeling in my chest just like I was dying, I couldn’t get rid of it. I woke up every day feeling like I was dying until I got my drugs, when I got my drugs it still wasn’t enough. I was never enough.