{"id":77575,"date":"2017-06-25T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uckg.org\/pt\/?p=77575"},"modified":"2023-04-24T12:33:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T11:33:46","slug":"ex-dependente-quimica-se-forma-em-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uckg.org\/pt\/ex-dependente-quimica-se-forma-em-harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-dependente qu\u00edmica se forma em Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone who knows psychologist Norma Stewart Heath today, graduated from Harvard, one of the best universities in the world, is incapable of saying that she was once a chemical dependent. <\/span>However, it hasn’t been long since the Honduran woman, now 51 years old, broke free from addictions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Norma was born in Honduras, but her family moved to Boston, in the United States, when she was 4 years old. <\/span>Unfortunately, the difficulties of a life in <\/span><\/span>a completely different country<\/span><\/span><\/a> – where she didn’t even know how to communicate – left deep scars on the girl. <\/span>The racial discrimination she suffered made her dislike herself and, at the age of 12, she discovered drugs: alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and crack.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI got so bad with addictions that I did everything that comes with chemical dependency, like prostituting myself, lying and stealing,\u201d she said in an interview with the US newspaper WGHB <\/span><\/span>News<\/span><\/span><\/em> .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

According to the WCVB television network, also from the United States, the situation worsened when Norma became unemployed. <\/span>Upon losing her source of income, she ended up on the streets, where chemical dependency took over.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I lost my job, I wasn’t able to reflect, I wasn’t able to read, I wasn’t able to write,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That is until she found a Christian association that showed her the possibility of recovery, where, once a week, women get together to talk about how to <\/span><\/span>overcome problems<\/span><\/span><\/a> . <\/span>And it was in these meetings that Norma found purpose.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery week we made lists of our goals. <\/span>I wrote that I would regularly see the doctor and stay away from drugs. <\/span>I realized that those goals were working and I said, ‘I want to graduate from Harvard.’\u201d And, putting her faith into action, last May 23, she earned her psychology degree.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf I could do it, so can you\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The above statement is from Norma, who now aims to help other drug addicts break free <\/span><\/span>from addiction<\/span><\/span><\/a> .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the most basic sense of the word, addiction is any habit of doing something repeatedly that brings some momentary pleasure, but ultimately harms us\u201d, explains Bishop Renato Cardoso. <\/span>\u201cLet’s be honest: how many things do we practice that bring us pleasure at the time, but are actually slowly destroying us \u2014 or at the very least preventing us from developing?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Addiction to crack, marijuana, cocaine is one of those things, but also alcoholism, addiction to cigarettes, pornography, constant tantrums, etc.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone has at least one addiction. <\/span>And the first step to being free of it is to recognize that you have it\u201d, explains the bishop. <\/span>\u201cThe second step is admitting that you need help to stop. <\/span>The mark of an addict is lying <\/span><\/span>to himself<\/span><\/span><\/a> when he says ‘I can stop whenever I want’. <\/span>If you could, you would have stopped already. <\/span>The tool that most freed addicts in the history of mankind, by far, is faith\u201d, says Bishop Renato.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If you have an addiction and recognize that you need help, join our <\/span><\/span>Treatment of Addictions (TDV)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> meeting and find out how God can set you free and help you achieve what you dream of, which could even be a Harvard degree. <\/span>Every Sunday at 3pm, only at the <\/span><\/span>Rainbow Theater<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conhe\u00e7a a hist\u00f3ria de Norma Heath e saiba como vencer o v\u00edcio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[683,657],"tags":[2740,4652,1589,2739],"class_list":["post-77575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internacional-news","category-noticias","tag-harvard-university","tag-para-si-mesmo","tag-tratamento-dos-vicios","tag-um-pais-completamente-diferente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uckg.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uckg.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uckg.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uckg.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uckg.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uckg.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105682,"href":"https:\/\/www.uckg.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77575\/revisions\/105682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uckg.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uckg.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uckg.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}