The Dreamscape Giveaway 'Like' Contest

The Dreamscape Giveaway 'Like' Contest was a huge success! Thank you to all participants for making the giveaway possible!

The Dreamscape Giveaway was an attempt to let someone Tell Their Story for no charge. We are all on a journey and it's important that we share our journey with others. Often times we forget about the journey that others are on, we can lose focus on others and we only notice what's happening in our own lives.

In the Custom Dreamscape Series "Tell Your Story", this is the chance to share your story, your struggle, your journey with the world. By doing this you can help many people overcome their own battles. Everyone struggles so let's turn our struggles into a helping hand. Sometimes just knowing that others have been through a similar struggle can inspire us to push on and to keep fighting the good fight.

Your story matters! This month's winner, Carly Jean, has shared her story! Thank you Carly, for your act of courage! It is a difficult thing to do, to share your journey with the world. Our journeys are extremely personal but, by sharing our journey, we can inspire others to keep moving forward, to keep fighting, to keep living their journey!

"Deliverance" is a story that will touch your heart as you take a short walk in her shoes through a battle on drug abuse. Before age 12 I was just an average kid. I had silly little crushes, I was on a mini cheerleading squad. I played house with my friends and begged my parents to let me stay out just a little longer on my bike after dark. Then within the blink of an eye my whole life turned dark. What childhood and years of youth I had left were snatched from me. Within that darkness that consumed my life I found comfort in a sharp blade with a delusional reality that red was the only hint of brightness I could have. Soon after turning 13 I found comfort in the feeling of emptiness. I wouldn't eat for days and when I finally did eat, it didn't stay there for long. Emptiness and a blade, those were my reality. At age 14 I got drunk for the first time and very soon after that I smoked pot. Now that, that was a happy reality, or at least I thought so. Wasn't that happy and cool to get high and drink in your best friends basement or hidden away in your bedroom? Not long after that when I was 15 guys started noticing me. How crazy for me. They only ever noticed my best friend in all her glory and beauty. But no, guys noticed me and not just any guys, older MEN. So I had happiness didn't I! By age 16 I was spending a majority of my time drunk, on pills, smoking pot or all 3. I had a couple of boyfriends by then. They sure liked the sex part but what about me? One of my boyfriends introduced me to cocaine not long before my 17th birthday. Oh, I was in love. My downward spiral sped up pretty quickly after that. I sold my body for the first time to that one friend of my boyfriend for a bag. At age 17 I spent my days high on "powder" and my nights slowly draining my own blood wishing for death to come and find me already. That was not happiness. Red soon became a darker color to me than black. No matter how empty I stayed I was never skinny enough. The drugs and alcohol just made me sick. I made me sick. This was rock bottom. I hit hard but I must have hit bottom just right because I was tired of being a damsel in distress waiting for someone to come rescue me. No, I saved myself. At age 17 I realized I was not who I wanted to be. So I was reborn. A chance to find myself and a chance to experience that true happiness I hadn't felt since I was a child. My first 24 hours clean and sober were the worst. Why was I doing this? What a big mistake! I want my drugs or a drink or anything, please. By my 30 day mark I was on a pink cloud of recovery. If you don't know what a pink cloud is then let me give you the jist of it. A pink cloud is a time when all is happy and it seems like nothing can go wrong or get you down, for example, right after you have a baby or maybe buy a new Harley. So, I slowly came off of that pink cloud and just into normal up and down life. My time passed and I got 60 days and then 90 days and then 6 months clean and sober. Around my 6 month mark I found out the news that would change my life forever. Before this, I was just clean and sober which was life changing enough, but then to top it all off I found out I was going to be a mom. Then a little after my 9 month mark I found out I was having a girl. I got to have a little mini me...oh great! I miserably celebrated my 1 year in recovery. We will just say that pregnancy and I did not get along. A couple of months later I had my baby girl. She is my everything. I am 19 years old now with a beautiful and healthy little girl and 6 months of sobriety under my belt after a bad night and some alcohol. No matter what, my addiction is always going to be right outside my front door waiting for me and trying to draw me back into it's darkness, but as long as i take my life 1 day at a time and hold onto the happiness I have gained, then my addiction can never be stronger than my recovery. If Carly's story touched your heart or if you know someone who could benefit from hearing her story please share this or tag them in it. Perhaps it will help others to keep hold of the happiness.

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