Before I started my own destructive path of addiction, I was collateral damage in another’s. Identified as an Adult Child of an Alcoholic while in college, I finally had some clue as to what was wrong with me. Unable to accept personal responsibility for my own well-being at that point, I picked up the torch of addiction for myself.
At the end of that road and the beginning of my new journey, came the spiritual awakening that I had become what had damaged me so badly. The girl I saw in the mirror was him. I suddenly had a new compassion that I had never had before, realizing that he had started out like me. I pray I NEVER EVER forget that day, because it’s the pain I felt that day that has motivated me every day since to seek a new way to live.
I am involved with ARC for them, the current and future children of these men. These children crave or will crave their fathers’ acceptance, love and support. I am involved with ARC for me, the child inside who has mourned the loss of the family that could’ve been. I am involved with ARC to do my part to break the cycle and chains of addiction, in a world that so desperately needs more real men and fathers.
LeAnne Scott
ARC Board Treasurer
