It Started with three moms
and now became a movement.

Real moms share their children's addiction recovery stories, and how music-based addiction therapy healed them.

Nicole Armstrong Recovery Unplugged

NICOLE’S DRUG USE WAS CATASTROPHIC ON US.

NICOLE AND LISA

I watched my husband die from drugs, and now my daughter was headed down the same path. When I saw that Nicole had progressed to opiates, it was shocking to me and I would just cry.

Nicole was a happy, easy-going child. She started using drugs right after her father died from a drug overdose. She took anything that would help her disconnect, but primarily alcohol, Xanax and Oxy. After everything we had been through, I could not accept that my child was that sick and I had no idea how to get her well.

Rachael Gray Recovery Unplugged

YOU HAVE TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO GO HOME AND CRY.

RACHAEL AND MICHELLE

You have to be strong enough to go home and cry.

Addiction runs in our family, but this was my daughter, and by far the hardest for me. It was devastating.

Rachael was always a very loving, smart child who never gave me any trouble. I first recognized she was using drugs when she was seventeen, but I realize now that I was blinding myself. She started much earlier. She began with pot, but quickly graduated to Oxy.

Jason Cabello Recovery Unplugged

ON MY DRIVES HOME, I WOULD PRAY HE HADN’T DIED.

JASON AND NANCY

It was hell watching Jason suffer with addiction. It ruined his life. He didn’t care about anything other than drugs. It impacted everyone. It destroyed his marriage and eventually, he moved back in with me.

Jason was the light of my life as a child. He was a great kid. He began experimenting with drugs as early as fourteen, and by twenty-three, he started using hard drugs. It started with alcohol, then cocaine, and continued with opiates and heroin.

Melissa Hartfell 3 Moms 3 Stories

I REMEMBER BEING AS ALONE AS ONE CAN BE AND WANTING TO STOP, BUT I COULDN’T.

MELISSA

I started drinking and using when I was about 13 years old. I got pregnant when I was 18 years old and decided for myself that I would never use drugs again. Ever. I was going to be a good mom. I was going to raise my children.

I quickly started drinking afterwards though, and I maintained that for a long time. For my two children, living with an alcoholic mom was chaotic. They didn't really get to have a mother. I abandoned them mentally, and emotionally. There were times when my son would have to put me to bed, because I had fallen asleep, puking at my desk.

Michael and Lisa 3 Moms 3 Stories

WITH MICHAEL, IT WAS A ROLLERCOASTER RIDE.

MICHAEL AND LISA

Michael had been battling things for a while, but he was always able to help himself. He never wanted me to know, and he would hide what he could from me, but we could all tell he was struggling...

Michael was a very happy, intelligent, almost picture perfect child. He had always put his whole heart and soul into everything he did. Michael began using drugs in highschool- we lost my dad, Michael’s grandfather, and my children were very close to him. Soon after that, you could tell- he just started drifting away... He was a different Michael.