Roy is a respected and influential member in the Recovery community. He is not only respected for the work he’s done on himself, but he’s respected for the life he has built outside of recovery. I first encountered Roy at the Miracles Club during a recovery-speaker fundraiser. He accredited the Miracles Club for being the first safe place he and his siblings could call home as a child. He said the community there helped raise him, and helped his parents with their personal drug addiction as well.

Roy opened up about his process through the 12-Step program. He said “I grew up in recovery” and I thought he meant he was forced to attend 12-Step meetings as a child. What he meant was he came into recovery a boy, and through the 12-Step process, he has grown into a man. Being around recovery at a young age planted the seed he would one day need to break free from his own self-made prison. The disease of addiction, like recovery, can make a person become almost unrecognizable. That is what happened to Roy.

In this episode Roy tells his jaw-dropping story of going from being a drug dealer and into gang-life, to becoming an addict, and being his own best customer. Roy’s life like many addict’s, became a miserable existence, decaying emotionally with a crushing awareness that life would always be that way, unless he got help from a divine intervention. He turned to his loved ones for help and sought treatment. Roy gives insight and explains the spiritual and practical tools he uses in his everyday life. Roy now serves as the Director for the Community Care Team at POIC.

His peers call him a mentor and a powerful force, impacting and healing the community each and every day. Roy has every reason to love life now. He has a career, owns a home, and has a beautiful partner to share his new life with. Tune in, you don’t want to miss one of the most memorable guests we’ve had!

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