As an inspiring speaker, Wendy Adamson, shares a heartfelt message of freedom and hope as she candidly talks about her own addiction and arrests, before launching into how she turned her life around. With long term sobriety, Wendy has been a drug and alcohol counselor for over twenty years and has a comprehensive understanding of the many facets of addiction. Wendy also believes that only by telling our personal stories of recovery we can heal the shame associated with mental illness and addiction. Wendy is a passionate communicator; whose goal is to invoke social change by destigmatizing the disease.