About

Sober Healing is a website dedicated to providing helpful resources and content concerning substance use disorders and recovery. Recovery is more than getting clean and sober. It’s about rebuilding your life, healing, learning, and implementing healthy decision-making.

That’s why you’ll find helpful information about managing finances, making healthy lifestyle changes, prioritizing self-care, taking care of your mental health, and various other topics that make getting your life together the foundation of your relapse prevention plan.

Our Story

Hello, and welcome. I’m Elizabeth Ervin, a blessed mother of two, wife, and entrepreneur. I’m here to share with you that addiction doesn’t discriminate and can find you at any time in your life, even at the most unexpected.

In 2011, I was in my senior year of a Bachelor’s Program at Trinity Lutheran College, studying Theology and Biblical Studies, when my opioid dependency spiraled out of control.

Somewhere between visiting the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, Palestine, to staying in a Kubitz on the Sea of Galilee in Isreal, the realization hit me while venturing on my ten-day adventure through the Holy Land.

What started as car accident pain and a Percoset pain management plan evolved into five years of a legal prescription opioid use disorder that ultimately led me to heroin use. I abandoned everything, including my daughter, education, and employment of thirteen years, to live on the streets and chase bags.

While my story may be shocking for some, too many others have shared this standard gateway to the needle and spoon. I had the unique experience of meeting hundreds of people with opioid use disorders who ALL confessed they had a car, work, or other form of accident that led to a prescription for addiction. 

Fortunately, through God’s grace, I celebrate my recovery and have lived opioid and heroin free as of 09-27-2013.

Our Recovery Philosophy

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Recovery looks different for everybody. From spending 28 days in a state-funded rehab that operated more like the jail that it cohabited — to finding myself part of a Scientology front group posing as a rehab (Narconon) — my road to recovery has been anything but what one might expect.

I never received official drug rehabilitation of any sort, don’t attend meetings, and am still standing here with over a decade of living opioid-free. So, I wholeheartedly mean it when I give the glory to God and his grace.

Sober Healing doesn’t discriminate regarding methods of recovery from substance use disorders or other addictions. We understand that some people abstain entirely from all substances.

In contrast, others are in Medically Assisted Treatment (MAT) programs that have given them another chance at life. Still, some find medicinal value in cannabis and have been able to eliminate narcotic use with its assistance.

We are not here to argue about different recovery groups’ definitions or ideologies. In the words of the late and great T’Challa (Marvel’s Black Panther): “We don’t do that here.”

This is a safe space to discuss recovery as a spectrum without judgment on where you were or where you’re at today. God is good, and you’ve got this. Keep going! Join our Facebook recovery group.

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There’s strength in numbers. Let’s learn, grow, and recover together. You’ve got this!

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