03/20/2026
Celebrating. Always.
A special note for one of our alumni from another alumni today:
“TEN. YEARS. In a row. Nights and weekends included.
Ten years ago Stacey walked into TRC Alumni and became one of my “litter mates”, if you will. She was scrappy, stubborn, and surviving. Nobody who knew her then would have put money on this moment. And yet. Here she is.
This woman has lived ten lifetimes in the last decade. From driving kids out of state to rehab, dogs getting stabbed (yes, for real), owning sober houses, sharing her experience, strength and hope in alumni meetings and all over Oklahoma, grandbabies, buying homes, planning weddings, becoming a mermaid, standing next to me while I adopt my daughter, and every messy, beautiful, impossible in-between that recovery throws at you. We have ugly cried in parking lots and she has been back on her feet before most people would have even gotten up off the floor. Built a life so full and so real that it almost doesn't seem fair to the version of her that couldn't have imagined any of it.
She is the spiritual to my ratchet (most days) and that is exactly why we love her.
Ten years sober is not a small thing. It is a thousand quiet decisions, a thousand hard mornings, and a thousand times she could have quit and didn't. Because she didn't quit, she has inspired more people than she will ever fully know. So many women in the rooms who watched her and thought, maybe I can too.
Thank you for sticking around, Stacey. Thank you for showing up, staying, and making ten years look this good.
I know I speak for all of TRC Alumni and staff when I say we love you to pieces. Happy birthday.”
🤍 Sara
