“All the reasons I drank were still present and eating me alive.”

Ashley got sober without getting well. 

“I needed to know why I was the way I was, and I needed friends who were actively working to be healthy mentally, spiritually and emotionally.” Ashley found those relationships at NAOMI and began to understand the why behind her choices.

“We dig deeper. We get to the root causes.”

Bella’s story is all too familiar. Drugs. Violence. Neglect. Abuse. Adverse Childhood Experiences. If you grow up with them, they cling to you like static, especially if you also lacked Positive Childhood Experiences. Abundant research shows that childhood trauma alters the way the brain develops.

But all is not lost. Relationships have the power to heal the damage done to the brain by trauma.

“For the first time in my life, I truly understood why my life was the way it was. It was both freeing and terrifying, but the women at NAOMI never gave up on me. They came for me again and again.” – Myra*