Testimonials
“I was unemployable, homeless, alone, and addicted to heroin. My life was in total despair and my situation seemed hopeless. Making one final attempt at life, I walked into a detox center, completely desperate and totally scared. Upon completion of the detox program I was given the number to a sober living home. My call was received by 1 of the 3 most amazing women I would ever meet (Ms. Dorene, Ms. Jeanette and Ms. Renee). I explained to Ms. Dorene that I had no money and no where to go but that I desperately wanted recovery. I wanted freedom from addiction and I needed their help. She told me to come home. Since my arrival at the Each Day a New Beginning sober living house, my life has dramatically changed and I have gained so much. I have many friends and a huge support system. I am employed and have a real since of purpose. Relationships with my parents and children, that were once lost, are now being restored. Most importantly, I have gained freedom from drug addiction. I literally owe my life to Each Day a New Beginning and the recovery community in Gonzales, La.”
Jessica P
Client
“I had been addicted to heroin and cocaine for years. I was jobless, homeless and dying both spiritually and physically. My family and friends wanted nothing to do with me. While in treatment the 3 women who owned Each Day a New Beginning came to talk about their sober living house. Although I really liked them, I did not want to move to Gonzales. However something kept pulling me towards them and their house. Thank God it did. I have now been at EDANB for a year. I have grown in ways I never could have imagined. I am once again a contributing member of society. I have formed lifetime friendships and have an awesome support system as well. I just cannot say enough about this house. Dorene, Renee and Jeanette are the most loving and giving people I have ever met. They helped me get back the life I had lost hope of ever having again.”
Karen E
Client
“The house was one of the most gracious gifts from God when I needed it most. It was my safe place, not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually as well. It helped me realize how exactly to live “life on life’s terms”. The relationships I made with other people that the house led me to are relationships that I could never replace. Each Day a New Beginning truly changed my life and made me a better person. And for that I am eternally blessed and grateful.”
Blakely S
Graduate
“The house not only taught me how to live life, but it gave me a life. I learned how to be a productive member of society! I will be forever grateful for both Each Day a New Beginning house and all of the incredible women that changed my life forever!”
Amanda V
Former Client
“My rock bottom was not a rock at all. It was a gym mat make-shift bed at a psychiatric hospital. I was riddled with shame and my fear of abandonment became my self-fulfilling prophesy. The last call I was able to make left me with the words “you can’t come back here.” Finally I had burned all my bridges. I felt like an orphan, dirty in over-sized mismatched clothes praying for a home. I knew my fate would be sealed if I had to hit the streets. I worried for my children who would be heartbroken over me further self-destructing and being in an unsafe environment. I prayed all day, every day until the doctor told me that I would be accepted, with no money, to a sober living house called Each Day a New Beginning. I was a cocktail of gratitude and fear. The 3 owners – Dorene, Jeanette and Renee – sat me in the office. I was a pitiful, wet faced mess and they greeted me with warmth and love. I was shown around by some of the other women and was assigned a bed. I was immediately encouraged to be productive and responsible. I was to find work, make meetings and do chores. This began to transform my lazy indecisive rear into a person who could be a member of society successfully. Here I have the encouragement, support and security I need to thrive. This house saved my life and I have another chance at becoming who God planned for me to be. I am extremely grateful that indeed Each Day a New Beginning is a new beginning and I won’t be wasting a single one.”
Danielle B
Former Client
“On May 14, 2017 I found myself lost, confused and wanting to take my life. That was the night that I had a change of heart. I put myself in treatment but did not have a clue as to what I was going to do after I finished treatment. I knew life wasn’t right and I wanted to get out of my addiction. I had no family, friends or anywhere to go. I had lost everything and had hit my rock bottom. All because I had made a decision to put drugs over anything and everything else. Sadly but true my children weren’t even enough to stop me. I had no choice but to surrender. I had heard about Each Day a New Beginning through others. I had no job, no money and nowhere to lay my head. I came to EDANB after getting out of rehab. Never would I have thought that 7 months later life would be what it is today. I am in a place I get to call home. I now have a job, relationships with my family and 3 women who have made a huge impact on my life. Each Day a New Beginning has saved my life more than once. It has shown me how to be responsible and what it means to have true and a real family. I still have much more learning to do and structure to apply to my life. Without EDANB and the 3 women who gave me a second chance to live I wouldn’t have the determination, motivation, and most of all sobriety that I do today. Life is far from perfect and I struggle every day, but I am very blessed and loved by many. Those 3 women who opened this house take their time, money and experience to help us every day in this crazy thing called life.”
Chelcie A
Former Client
“Years ago I got into a program because my life was not working anymore. Drugs and alcohol were my master and nothing, absolutely nothing, worked to kill the pain I was in. Then I walked in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous. I was in and out for a bit, but then the program started working because I started doing the work. I know there is a God because He knows what I need in my life. Sometimes and relapse is necessary to what you need and after 20 years I went back out. Now this is where I know there is a God because that relapse brought me to Each Day a New Beginning. I had nothing. I was homeless. No money. Everyone in my life had given up on me. Dorene, Jeanette and Renee took me in and has helped me start a road to recovery. I have a home today. I have a job and I am working on going to school. All of this has come about because of these beautiful ladies who have taken their time, love and money to give the women in this house another chance at life. There is a God and I am truly grateful He gave me these women to love me and give me the chance I needed. I have a family and never ending friendships because of this house. This is my home.”
Mary M
Former Client
