Hall of Heroes

Recovery is worth celebrating out loud. These are our heroes — people who decided, one day, to start, and then kept starting again every day since. Every name here gave permission to be listed. Lengths are figured from each person's sobriety date and update on their own — nobody has to count for them.

The Celebration Coins

A Broken Crayons celebration coin: a broken crayon cut through layered wood with pink showing through, ringed by the words 'Broken crayons still color' and 'Planted, Not Buried.'

Each coin is two thin layers of wood with a broken crayon at the center and the color shining through, and two truths around the rim: Broken crayons still color, and Planted, Not Buried. Right now our coins come to us finished from Celebration Seeds, Tacoma, Washington. They come in small batches and get handed out at milestone moments — so no, there isn't one for every name on this wall. But the words belong to everybody here. And inside every coin rides a lupine seed. That's the whole sermon: a seed in the ground isn't buried and done — it's planted, and planted things grow. So are the people on this wall.

Coins made for us by

Hear it the way it's given. Budd presenting the coin at a program completion, in his own voice (about 2 minutes):

Plant It. Let It Grow — the story of the celebration coin: two thin wooden coins with colored paper and lupine seeds sealed inside; soak it 24 hours, bury it 3 to 5 inches in the soil, water and wait, and it comes back year after year.

Get Your Name on the Wall

Text us your name and your sobriety date at (252) 427-2966 — first and last name, or first name and last initial, however you want it listed — and we'll add you here and to the scrolling banner. Whether it's 30 years or 30 hours, it counts, and it tells somebody behind you that it can be done.