Jeff Simpson couldn’t get past the fourth step: taking inventory of the people who had hurt him.
Long addicted to meth, he started a program called Celebrate Recovery in 2010. That came after other attempts to stay clean, like when his son was born and when Simpson’s parole officer sanctioned him to 30 days in jail. If Simpson wanted to see his son grow up and avoid returning to prison for armed robbery and drug convictions, he was told he’d have to stop running from his problems and creating new ones. He’d have to get into treatment. That was 13 years ago, when Simpson found Jesus in a jail cell, and his life trajectory started to change.
Simpson, a teddy bear of a man with big brown eyes and a gap-toothed smile, has been in recovery ever since. But recovery hasn’t come easy.
