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By Ken Carlson, Fremont County Peer Recovery Coach, Serenity Recovery Connection From Active Addiction to Survival Mode There are few things that compare to setting out on a 5,000-mile motorcycle journey with two close friends. Leaving Colorado, with Washington, D.C. as our destination, weknew this trip would be about more than the miles. It would…

By Eric Bean, Peer Recovery Coach, Serenity Recovery Connection From Active Addiction to Survival Mode My name is Eric. I’m a man in long-term recovery. I guide rural recovery outreach and peer support services across Chaffee, Custer, and Park counties as a Peer RecoveryCoach for Serenity Recovery Connection. I spent more than two decades in…

By: Elisa Marie Cordova, CPFS, SOR Peer Coach, Serenity Recovery Connection My journey into recovery didn’t begin with substances alone. It began with a growing awareness that something in my life wasn’t working. Long before I ever addressed mysubstance use, I was caught in patterns of toxic thinking, emotional reactivity, and impulsive decisions that quietly…