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Helping Herself Micah House’s first women’s outpatient graduate learns value of self-worth Like many first-timers in treatment, Melinda Walters didn’t know what to expect coming into the program.

“I’d heard a lot of horror stories about people going into treatment and coming out worse off,” she says, “but I feel so much better for doing it. It’s amazing.” She needed an initial push from the courts to come into treatment - it was a condition of her probation, and the benefits didn’t present themselves immediately. Walters says it took a month or so to get comfortable in her new environment and routine. But once she did, she says her internal problems began to unravel, enabling her to practice a newfound regimen of self-care and experience a world of satisfaction with herself she had never known existed. “I’ve always been a caregiver in life, so I naturally take care of people,” she says. “I’m learning how to take care of myself now, and it’s a really, really good feeling.”

Tools of the trade Walters says the coping tools she learned at Micah House have helped her in ways that far exceed sheer sobriety. A long-time sufferer of fibromyalgia, Walters has seen drastic improvements in her physical and mental health.

“I’m learning how to take care of myself now, and it’s a really, really good

feeling.” - Melinda Walters client of Micah House

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