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Jan. 25, 2021 – “I wasn’t considering my brother, his well-being; ultimately I didn’t care about my brother,” Gabe said.
It enabled their most destructive tendencies to surface.
“It was a daily battle, and it was something that I didn’t think I was ever going to be free from,” Zach said.
“We got in a situation where it just got really, really dark and like, hopeless,” Gabe said.
By 2016, the Millers say they’d found hope, love and God at St. Matthew’s House’s Justin’s Place, a yearlong addiction recovery program.
“We showed up and there were people that said ‘hey, you can do this and you’re going to,’ and ‘we are here for you if you need us and it’s OK to make mistakes,’” Zach said.
“The more I just kept going forward with it, the more I was realizing I’m doing this, I’m not … I’m not using, and I feel whole,” Gabe said.
Almost five years later, they’re both working to help others through St. Matthew’s House. And not only have they both beat addiction, they’ve repaired their relationship.
“We’ve seen each other at our worst and we just, we don’t want to see that again, we want to see each other at our best,” Zach said.
