How affordable housing is helping this Nashville resident recover
Kris Proctor remembers little about his father’s funeral, except the jarring words that someone said as he walked in: “Happy Father’s Day.” The surreal moment stunned him. He couldn’t believe it was his life.”I was like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’” he said. “Like, is that real? I mean, things were just unbelievable to me at that point in time. “Proctor struggled with substance use disorder, and his addiction to drugs
escalated after his dad’s unexpected death in 2019.
He spent about a year in the depths of grief and addiction before surfacing to seek help. He didn’t know it at the time, but his recovery journey would eventually take him from his Virginia hometown to Nashville and give him one of the best years of his life in Samaritan Recovery Center’s transitional living program.
Click below to read about Kris’s story and how Samaritan helped him get his life back.
“For 28 years I struggled with my drug and alcohol addiction. For years I didn’t think that I would ever stop using. I knew I was tired but I just didn’t know how to stop.
I heard about Samaritan from a friend that said how good of a treatment program it was and how the staff was commited to making sure that we understand what this disease is that we are dealing with. So in March of 2016 I came to Samaritan and started in their intensive residential program.
This was an intensive program where for 29 days you are taught about alcohol and drug disease. From day one when I came into Samaritan I had doubt of ever being able to stay clean. But I was determined to do whatever it took to come out of the dark of my life that I had been living in for so many years.
I think what opened my eyes up the most was the passion that the staff had with each individual client, how they showed each of us that they care and were willing to go to any length to get us away from the doubt that we had in ourselves. The staff opened my mind up to a lot of the issues that I have encountered over the years that has caused me to react and turn to my addiction.
The Samaritan program has given me hope I didn’t have. And I am grateful.”