Paula McGough

I work at a recovery center where I serve as community outreach coordinator. I'm still working in the office and also doing community outreach. We've recently joined the BBB, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Rotary Club. I'm involved in leadership at One City Recovery, which is a faith-based 12-step program that uses Recovery Alive's curriculum. I'm a leader of a process group, so we do that on Tuesdays. On Thursdays, we have our weekly meeting where treatment centers come, and people like me who are in mental health or have been in treatment or are in recovery help those that are just starting their journey, so I teach there. At my center, 3 days a week, I teach an hour class on the faith-based program that I work. Once a month, I go with my group, my One City Recovery group, and a couple of other churches or organizations, and our sober living here at the facility, and we volunteer and go feed the homeless every first Saturday of the month. My life pretty much is involved around recovery in some form or fashion. What I love most is giving people hope, seeing them finding joy, and seeing them start their own healing process and realizing that if somebody like me can do it, they can do it too.