Hi, I am Jeremie Hardcastle. I have a lifetime of lived experience with substance use and mental health. I went to almost all the places that addiction will take you before coming to Florida from Tennessee and beginning my recovery journey on 11/03/2021. I wake up every day now grateful for the chance to improve my life little by little and step by step. The more I’ve worked at it the more this humbling community has granted me opportunities to make my life fulfilling. I look forward to sharing with others and helping them grow past the stigma of mental illness and the disease of addiction as a peer specialist and as an advocate for people wanting to work to improve their lives in any capacity. Before my path down this journey, I worked in retail management for close to twenty years. In my spare time, I write editorials and blogs for advocacy as well as writing fiction and fantasy.

“Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn’t mean they are bad people. It just means they are human.” – Sui Ishida