Today, I’m interviewing Janine Gutstein who is a dear friend from my home group. She has been sober since May 19, 2007 and is a recent graduate of my Recovery@Work program. Janine had been unemployed when she started the program but has since found a great job AND got herself back into nursing school so she can make a bigger impact.
Janine had a very challenging road in the beginning of sobriety because she and her husband were both struggling with addiction and juggling a high life profile with multiple homes and he had a high profile career as a TV Chef personality. But when the disease caught up with him and he lost his job, she knew the marriage was over because she needed to get sober and he was in the way of that. Then everything came crashing down around her with the loss of her children when he took them and left her while she was at the dog park! Then she almost lost her life when she relapsed. However, Janine miraculously awakened with a renewed determination to not only stay sober, but to get her children back.
This is an amazing comeback story of someone who lost everything but with a program of recovery was able to raise a family of three as a single mom and step into a new role as leader because she has a love of serving others. Janine is now working as an LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) and is back in school to get her RN (Registered Nurse) degree so she can make a bigger impact.
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