High Noon: Embracing A Bad Past

KPerry: 10 years ago I was working full time in a fast food restaurant 12 or more hours a day and addicted to meth. Now- I work in prevention and am looking forward to celebrating 7 years clean on April 16th. In between then and now I lost everything, went to jail, moved 800 miles to Spokane where I didn’t know anybody or my way around and only had a bike and lived at Hi-Co Village on the Newport Highway. Got 2 jobs to keep myself out of trouble, went to school, got my degree, my kids back and this job that keeps my head where it belongs. I have everything I need and many things that I don’t (wants)my kids are doing well and life goes on. We wouldn’t be the people we are without our pasts. I used to be ashamed of my past, but now I embrace it, for it has made me the strong woman that I am today.

Question: What have you learned from past mistakes that has made you a stronger person?