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In late May, Spencer Nee found himself at a campsite in Colorado talking to a woman he’d just met. She wasn\u2019t vacationing; she was trying to wean herself off heroin. She was on her third day, dope sick and struggling to remember why sobriety seemed like a good idea. Nee can relate.<\/p>\n

Although Nee is celebrating seven years of sobriety, he tells Guideposts.org his debilitating addiction to alcohol left him \u201cin a really frightening place in my life. I\u2019d pretty much accepted my death.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike the woman he met at the campsite, who grew up in the foster care system and survived childhood sexual abuse before becoming addicted to drugs, Nee came from a loving home. He excelled in sports and academics, graduated from college and owned a business for a time. He drank socially. Only after college, when his business fell through and his peers were successfully transitioning into adulthood, did his dependence on alcohol grow.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was self-medicating a lot of holes in my life,\u201d Nee says. \u201cA lot of anxiety and depression. [Alcohol] just slowly started to rule my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

His relationship with his parents deteriorated, and some friends disappeared. He couldn\u2019t hold a job \u2013 Nee estimates he had seven in 2007 alone \u2013 and the jobs he did manage to snag were places where he could indulge his drinking.<\/p>\n

Soon, he wasn\u2019t able to afford his rent and became part of the \u201cinvisible population\u201d of homeless people, sleeping in a tent in the woods next to his alma mater or spending a night in a dingy motel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like a complete outcast, like I was a hassle to people,\u201d he says about his time on the streets.<\/p>\n

But the scariest part of his spiral into addiction was the toll it took on his health. Nee remembers the early days, waking up to his body shaking uncontrollably, desperately craving a drink.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d wake up so shaky that I was afraid I\u2019d go into a seizure and die without alcohol,\u201d Nee says. \u201cI\u2019d have to drink in the mornings and at work. It just took over my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE: ANNIE LOBERT FINDS REDEMPTION ON THE VEGAS STRIP<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

After one night of drinking, Nee fell asleep behind a dumpster and woke up to a stranger dumping trash on him. That rock bottom moment made the then 27-year-old realize he needed to get sober.<\/p>\n

Nee called his parents to ask for help. It was the first time they\u2019d heard from him in six months. That call led him to Providence Network in Denver.<\/p>\n

The faith-based organization works to help homeless, addicted and at-risk men, women and families become healthy, productive members of society. The group offers transitional homes with faith-based counseling, life and job skills training and a live-in staff to ease recovering addicts and homeless people back into a normal life. For Nee, Providence Network was able to do what other homeless shelters and smaller programs couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m one of the lucky ones,\u201d Nee says. \u201cBut I think [my sobriety] does say something about Providence Network in general. They have a really unique approach. You become a member of the community, you go out and get a job, you have your meals together, there\u2019s a live-in staff. There\u2019s just a feeling of family that I was really missing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nee spent two years in one of the organization\u2019s homes before moving into a \u201cVictory House,\u201d or sober living apartment. There Nee returned to school and became a registered nurse. Eventually, he was able to leave the transitional facility and continue sober living on his own. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of good people buried under addictions that lead them to homelessness, but with a little help, they can go on to live productive, healthy lives,\u201d Nee says. He\u2019s living proof. “They are people. They deserve love and respect.\u201d <\/p>\n

While working in the E.R. of a hospital in Colorado, Nee got the idea to show love for those with addictions in a new way. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe were starting to get this major influx of kids overdosing, most hooked on heroin,\u201d Nee explains. He did some research and found the number of homeless youth was rising, not only in Colorado, but across the nation. He felt compelled to help.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: MY MOMENT OF TRUTH IN REHAB<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nee partnered with Providence Network to raise money for a new transitional home the organization was planning, one focused on youth and young adults. His plan: to bike 4,000 miles cross-country, from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City to raise the $10,000 needed for the new housing unit. Staying at campsites, rehab centers, and transitional homes along the way, Nee shared his story of addiction, homelessness, recovery and faith to hundreds of people struggling with the same demons that once held him hostage\u2014including the woman recovering from heroin addiction, with whom he’d kept in contact.<\/p>\n

Roughly four months after he left the Golden Gate Bridge, Nee reached the finish line at the Brooklyn Bridge. As he rode over the East River, in a bustling crowd of tourists, he received a text message from the woman he’d met at the campsite.<\/p>\n

She was 60 days sober, thanks to Nee\u2019s words of encouragement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to spread the message of hope,\u201d Nee says of his bridge-to-bridge ride. \u201cI wanted to reach out to these people and show them that you can<\/em> have fun when you\u2019re sober, there is a life rich in adventures if you can just hang on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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