Starting and staying on the road to recovery can be challenging. An addiction is not easily overcome and recovery often requires constant accountability. Addiction affects you, your peers, your family and on today's Real Talk With BELLA episode comes from personal experiences from our EIC Vanessa Coppes. She interviews her husband Joshua about battling alcoholism, its effects, and consequences. With this interview, their hope is to help to break the stigma of addiction, give hope to others, and to show that healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives. Listen now.