I am a late-in-life mom recovering from a lifelong addiction to heroin. I spent my whole life being put down by a system and people who didn’t know me, and for a long time, I allowed how they felt about me to determine how I felt about myself. I don’t do that anymore. I flipped the script and I am here to tell you that if I did- you can too.

Don’t make the mistakes that I made. Don’t waste your life away on addiction and prison cells because you don’t think you deserve any more than that because you deserve so much more.