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Chaunte Wilborne, CARC
chaunte.wilborne@arcstofreedom.com
(304) 394-4768
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Ms. Wilborne's Story

Hello and may i have the pleasure of welcoming you to the beginning of your new life!

I will be the biggest supporter during this journey, that will assist you in the healing of what brought you here. I will learn from you while you learn from me — there’s no I in team.

Each one of us has a story to tell. And even though I’m eager to hear yours, here’s a snippet of mine:

I am a survivor of mental, emotional, physical and sexual abuse.

I have been used, abused and tossed away more times than I care to count. I have even survived being raped as well as molested as a child. The molestation occurred during my summer visits to both sets of my grandparents homes. It was done by two individuals that I loved the most in my childhood.

Either I can’t or don’t want to remember the beginning or ending ages or very many details. But I feel as though that was the beginning of my acting out and one of the reasons why I began to use drugs.

I became sexually active of my free will at 15 and that’s where I believe I began to think that I had to have a male in my life in order to make me feel loved. Of course, I also started using drugs at the age of 13 to feel as though I fit in. Also, my parents separated and I felt as though it was my fault.

So yep, by the age of 15 I had begun doing hardcore drugs. My parents finally divorced and that began more crazy tormenting assumptions. My mother began to rely on me for emotional and financial support, and I became the surrogate parent to my three year old little sister.

Now that I think about it parental roles were definitely reversed and my life began spiraling downhill at a fast pace. I felt as though I just needed to accept the fact that my life would never change.

I WAS HURTING, IN NEED OF HELP — and was all ALONE.

I experienced my first overdose in my mid 20’s, but apparently that wasn’t enough for me to change. I got married to a high school friend of my uncles. And the crazy thing about it I knew nothing about him at all.

He beat me, stole from me and locked me in the house. When I finally got away I moved to Georgia only taking my youngest daughter, sister and infant nephew, leaving my other three children with my mother and her drunken drug addicted boyfriend.

I attempted to build a new life but of course I still hadn’t dealt with myself or my addiction.

So at this point drugs became my best friend. I got married one more time to an abusive self centered man, in and out of jail. I became involved with gangsters and criminals and fell deeper into the drug scene.

I met a wonderful young man who adored me and my children and what did I do? Yes, you guessed it I messed that up as well. Although, we did stay married eleven years, but we were both miserable. Then boom LIFE GOT EVEN WORSE! Everyone had left me, and the drive to escape through drugs took over. 

Then July 24, 2006, a brand new journey began.

I went to a long term rehab facility and began learning how to get my life and family back. During my recovery I began to earn respect. People began to trust me and, most of all, the courts granted me the adoption of three of the most wonderful grandchildren that now call me "Mommy."

I became a certified foster/kinship parent, was stable enough to take care of my grandmother and father until they passed from dementia and even went back to school.

So with hope, love, faith, God (or whatever your beliefs are), my kids, my amazing recovery sponsor and all the wonderful people that I have encountered my life HAS CHANGED. 

Then I found this course with ARCS and learned how to love myself, how to look at life and others differently, gained wonderful friends, and now have a solid support system. 

• I’ve learned to love and forgive myself as well as others.
  
  
• Today I realize that I have every right to feel emotions and I can embrace them and be ok with them — I just had to find a different way to deal with them.
  
  
• I've also learned that it doesn’t matter what others think of me.

This course helped to heal those things that still tormented me and to believe in myself. I now have hope for the future, the strength to go on and the knowledge to do and be better.

This course gave me the strength and power that I have today. It's also given me the the courage to tell you some of my story.

I look forward to walking with you through this amazing journey!

Online Class Information

Women's Class
THURSDAY, 6-8pm
Eastern Time Zone
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Men's Class
Full
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