During her tenure, Cinde has served in nursing, clinical management, and administrative roles.Ĭinde is a bachelor’s prepared Registered Nurse and a master’s prepared Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor, Level II. *This letter was submitted during “Share the Love of Recovery”, where we asked our staff, alumni and friends on social media to share their stories with those who are still learning to live one day at a time.Ĭinde Stewart Freeman is Cumberland Heights’ Chief Clinical Officer and has been with Cumberland Heights for 30 years. My breeze will blow above your grips as my future days now begin and end without you. A new path awaits my journey as I let you lay in the dust of days gone by. The impending calamity in your course will no longer be one I will tread. So long to your charms and momentary pleasures, for the bludgeoning you have delivered to me has revealed your exact nature. As I lay down your heavy burden, I will step over you and stride freely toward the bountiful world you have kept me hostage from with a lightness of being an unbound spirit to freely seek the happy destiny my creator has in store for me. They may not be noticed, but never covered up. I will carry the scars left by your bondage. The shackles you held me in and the steel rope you bound me with will not be missed. You opened doors I wanted to enter, but found rooms of crowded, exciting expereince backed with suspicious doubt and eventual failure and emptiness. Through you I found temporary enjoyment and relief which dissipated as quickly as it appeared leaving a reeking, loathing sense and clouded head above a broken heart. Just when I thought I had found just the correct answer in your presence, you pulled the rug out from under my staggering and shuffling feet only to bury me under the weight of the world and the opaque cloak of self. I tested your chemical compounds to find just the right composition, but failed with almost every attempt. You morphed into many forms of liquids, powders, smoke and sniffs. You baffled and intrigued me to continue sifting through your many layers constantly looking for that which I never truly found. You lifted me up to meet the shallow pool of mindless bliss and as my feet sunk deeper into your murky floor, I trudged along toward that which I sought but was never fulfilled when I arrived. I followed you toward that which I wanted, yet knew nothing of the price I would pay to hold it in my hands.
I saw you charming those I looked up to and in a tangible way, I felt you could transport me to that place of joy and acceptance. You enticed me with glamour and elevation of mood, enriching my life experience in blind surprise.
You first came to me in a bottle and a breath of smoke. Goodbye Letter to Addiction cumberlandsite T20:15:05-05:00
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