{"id":1756,"date":"2021-06-08T20:49:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T20:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583903-1890774.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2021-06-10T16:25:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:25:31","slug":"a-womans-recovery-photo-is-motivating-others-to-stop-selling-yourself-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/06\/08\/a-womans-recovery-photo-is-motivating-others-to-stop-selling-yourself-short\/","title":{"rendered":"A Woman\u2019s Recovery Photo is Motivating Others to \u2018Stop Selling Yourself Short\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An Ohio woman\u2019s recovery photo has gone viral and has been shared by thousands on Facebook. Ginny Burton posted a before-and-after photo on the social media platform, captioning it: \u201cI honestly thought I\u2019d die on a park bench with a needle in my arm or by gunshot to the head. I would\u2019ve never in a million years thought my life would look the way it does today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fvirginia.anne.549%2Fposts%2F5508102162596345&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"698\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When Burton was only six years old, she was introduced to marijuana by her mother, she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.10tv.com\/article\/news\/local\/woman-shares-viral-facebook-about-overcoming-addiction-hits-home-in-chillicothe\/530-2d027491-4296-419d-9385-4fad736701d8\"><strong>10 WBNS.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 By the age of 12, she got into methamphetamine and cocaine. She spent time in juvenile hall and was incarcerated three times. Her life was careening toward an early end. That is, until eight years ago when her life took a turn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the longest I have ever been clean in my life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you would have told me that my life would look like it does today eight and a half years ago, I would have called you a liar,\u201d she said. She now wants to motivate others and advises to \u201cStop selling yourself short. You don\u2019t know what tomorrow might bring so you might consider starting today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019ll now be graduating with a bachelor\u2019s degree in political science. She\u2019s already been accepted to the Evans School of Public Policy in Seattle, where Burton says she wants to change the prison system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #e6e6e6;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.10tv.com\/embeds\/video\/530-b241f0bf-1197-4398-82aa-86f005568ed1\/iframe\" width=\"870\" height=\"490\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; An Ohio woman\u2019s recovery photo has gone viral and has been shared by thousands on Facebook. Ginny Burton posted a before-and-after photo on the social media platform, captioning it: \u201cI honestly thought I\u2019d die on a park bench with a needle in my arm or by gunshot to the head. I would\u2019ve never in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}