In this episode of You and I 4 the Kenai, the team sits down with Heidi as she tells about her journey into and through recovery. *Content Not Suitable For Children*

In this episode of You and I 4 the Kenai the team is back at the LeeShore Center talking about a revolutionary community and state-wide program, Green Dot. The Green Dot program is a bystander intervention program aimed to address the violence that is ever to present in our community. Listen here and learn all about how you can make a difference in your community by simply doing what you can, when you can. Together and through Green Dot, we can make our community a safer place.

In this episode of You and I 4 the Kenai the team sits down with Sean. Sean talks about the downfalls of working hard and playing harder, as well as, the joy that comes through recovery. *Content Not Suitable for Children*

In this episode of You and I 4 the Kenai the team is back with Renee Lipps and Ashley Blantchford from The LeeShore Center to discuss the crisis intervention and victim support services The LeeShore Center offers.

In this episode of You and I 4 the Kenai the team sits down with Renee Lipps and Ashley Blatchford from the LeeShore Center. Renee and Ashley give us an in depth look into the amazing history of the LeeShore Center as well as all of the crucial services the LeeShore center provides the community on the Kenai Peninsula.

In this episode of You and I for the Kenai, we sit down with Lauren as she shares her story that includes both significant pain and incredible resilience. *Content Not Suitable For Children*

In this episode of You and I 4 the Kenai, the team sits down with Jodi as she discusses her own seven-year recovery and gives us her keys to thriving in recovery. *Content Not Suitable For Children*

In this episode of You and I 4 the Kenai the team sits down with Ninja, as he tells us his recovery story. *Content Not Suitable For Children*

In this episode of You and I 4 the Kenai, the team sits down with Danielle. Danielle tells us about her battle with substance use, how she continues her recovery today, and how the ability to reflect is a tool not just those in recovery could benefit from mastering. *Content Not Suitable For Children*

In this episode of You and I 4 the Kenai, the team sits down with Charlie Simons as he tells us CICADA and medication-assisted treatment.

In this episode of You and I 4 the Kenai, Billy teaches us that heartbreak, does not, have to leave us broken. *Content Not Suitable For Children*

In this episode of You and I 4 the Kenai, Brett teaches us that no matter how far we run, we never out run ourselves. *Content Not Suitable For Children*

In this episode, Cassandra tells a gripping and moving story of going from perpetually homeless both literally and figuratively to making it home where love and support abounds. Her journey was difficult and painful, but she did make it - she did recover. A couple interesting things Cassandra talks about includes how it can be really hard to ask for help as an addict when addicts are publicly stigmatized and discriminated against. She said she would hear things such as "you asked for it; you're a junkie." This type of attitude toward people who are hurting and wanting help can make it really hard for those people to believe help is truly there if they want it or that they are even deserving of it. Another interesting thing she shares is that when she started to get in a place of emotional wreckage during her first attempt at recovery, she was in the state that she was accustomed to - her life had been in a place of emotional wreckage for as long as she could remember. This brings up the idea that perhaps in early recovery abnormal behaviors or thought patterns can be hard to recognize as abnormal or concerning. This then leads to the idea of community and outside support being so important to help provide insight and different perspectives. There is so much more in this episode than is described above. This truly is a story that moves the deepest parts in us as humans.

In this episode of You and I 4 the Kenai, Zack tells a story of recovery that is blunt and upfront, and it provides all of us with good insights and reminders. He discusses many things, one of which is that recovery is hard. He says that many times he found people theorizing or romanticizing the recovery process, and claiming it was so healing and immensely freeing. And, while he wasn't denying that recovery can bring healing and freedom, he was saying that it cost something - that it can be hard. While recovery brought many good things into his life, it also required him to kick a dope habit, to start being honest, and to look at things that he didn't always like when he did look at them; and that only romanticizing or gleefully embracing the recovery process as pain-free growth was inaccurate. Was it worth it? Yes. Was it pain-free and easy? By no means. Another interesting point Zack makes is that his time using was like an Ostrich with his head in the sand. After getting his head out of the sand, he both needed and was able to start cleaning up both the internal and external messes. This provides good insight for everyone - pulling the head out of the sand is hard, painful, and scary, but seeing a mess and having to learn to live in the elements again can be equally as hard, painful, and scary. Getting sober is only the first part, and there are still things to work on. This is like what Zack says during the podcast when he says that when you sober up a horse thief, you simply have a sober horse thief. You have to learn to stop being a horse thief. Zack providing the perspective that recovery is difficult and that getting sober is only the first - and not always the easiest - part is very helpful for us as community members. We should understand that our brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, and friends in recovery are not in a problem-solved stage of life, and they still need our support more than ever. *Content Not Suitable For Children*

In this episode of You and I 4 the Kenai we hear from Carrie. Carrie explains to us her battle with Substance Abuse Disorder, but most importantly she tells a story of triumph through recovery. *Content Not Suitable For Children*