When I opened that little meditation card this morning those words hit me differently.
Twenty years ago, I was taking the biggest chance of my life...
Walking into state meetings talking about something called "recovery" when nobody even knew what that meant.
Suggesting that people with lived experience could
actually HELP other people recover... instead of just staying quiet and compliant.
They looked at me like I didn't belong; like an outsider.
But you know what I realized? Sometimes the biggest chances we take... the ones that feel the most terrifying... those are exactly the ones we need to take.
Because recovery was just a radical concept back then. Peer
support was something nobody had heard of.
Now?
Recovery is the expected norm for people with mental illness and substance use disorders. Peer support is Medicaid reimbursable across the country. And the "radicals" they dismissed? We're now the professionals they can't imagine working without.
Listen, that transformation didn't happen by
accident.
It happened because people like you kept taking chances; kept believing that recovery was possible. You kept proving that lived experience isn't a liability... it's your greatest professional asset.
To celebrate 20 years of taking chances and proving us right, I'm doing something I've never done before. For the next 7 days only, you can get our complete professional development
library - all 9 CEU courses (40 hours!) that have supported hundreds of peer supporters nationwide - for 20% of it's normal cost.
Normally $389, you get them all for just $77.80.
That's 80% off our regular pricing. 40 CREDIT HOURS FOR LESS THAN $100! C'MON! THIS IS
AMAZING
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