Christine H. Moore is a grateful person in long term recovery and celebrated 8 years on 3/15/23. I am humbled to share with you my personal story of addiction to prescription pills and my journey through recovery to her current stage as a Certified Peer Recovery Peer Specialist, Certified John Maxwell Public Speaker and Peer Recovery Trainer.
I grew up in a Dallas, Texas in stable home with both parents present in our family home. I was a competitive gymnast and ballet dancer throughout High School and studied Theatre and Dance in College. Accomplishments in dance and sports were the only way I received love and affirmation from my those close to me. I became obsessed with making myself into the best competitive gymnast possible, then went to the University of Texas in Austin in 1999 to study Theatre and Dance to perfect my skills and knowledge of dance as a ballerina. After graduating from UT, I became a dance instructor and met my future husband at a local gym. My husband was an avid body builder and he introduced me to the world of fitness competition. Competing in women’s fitness competitions gave me the chance to use my skills in ballet, gymnastics and to be on stage and receive the love and affirmation I so deeply craved. Not long into my fitness competition training, the pressure began to mount and out of curiosity and desire to escape the feelings of lack and self-doubt. I took one of the pain killer pills, loved the confident, invincible feeling it gave me. I felt that with these pills, I could be free of the feelings of scrutiny and the shame that I felt from a lifetime of seeking conditional love through competitive performance.
My addiction to pain pills soon grew into a need for sleeping pills at night and anti-anxiety drugs during the day. I began to spiral into the cycle of addiction which lead me to multiple accidental overdoses. My husband served me with divorce papers and restraining order. I lost custody of my two young sons, my marriage ended and everything I cared about was destroyed. That was the day I submitted to an in-patient rehab program is when I made the decision to surrender to my healing.
Today I have 8+ years in recovery and I'm beyond grateful for the journey I have been on. I have been blessed to turn all of the pain and loss into purpose and growth. It is my passion to help people through their recovery process and see them join a beautiful community of people who are successful in long term recovery. I am passionate about and dedicated to the Recovery Community and to the destigmatize addiction through education and compassion and community.
I love working with people and the challenge of understanding and connecting with each person I interface with on an individual level. I am a natural connector of people and I truly thrive in roles where I touch the lives of others.
