Four or five years ago Wardell Harding couldn’t envision a life without drugs and alcohol. He certainly didn’t see himself as a counselor at Recovery in Motion at the A.F. Whitsitt Center in Chestertown.
He’d be the first to say that recovery opens the door for miraculous changes in one’s life.
Harding now sees his job as a peer support counselor at RIM as an integral part of his own recovery as he works to reach the “hard to serve” population of our county, may it be visits to the county jail to offer help to inmates about to be released, or leading group sessions at the Center.
It’s important to Harding that people know more about the A.F. Whitsitt Center’s services as a residential treatment facility for people 18 and over who suffer from chemical dependency and co-occurring disorders. He knows from his own experience that long-term recovery requires more than ending drug and alcohol use—it requires a new way of living and that Whitsitt and treatments centers like it offer a recovery environment from detox to sober living housing if needed.
“Someone on the street, they need to know that have a place to turn to. They can walk right up to the front door any day between Monday and Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 pm. All they have to do is have the willingness and desire to end the suffering of their addiction, and start on the road to recovery,” he said.
In this video, Wardell Harding talks about his recovery and his work as a Peer Support Counseling Specialist at the A.F. Whitsitt Center in Chestertown,
Recovery in Motion is located at the Whitsitt Center, 300 Scheeler Road in Chestertown.Phone Number: 410-778-6404, Admissions: 410-778-6404, or 3223.
This video is approximately eight minutes in length
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