Couple Says Lifeline Restores Their Marriage and Their Lives

Recovery can be contagious – in a good way. Adam and Lisa Glisson are glad they caught that bug from a family member.

Lisa’s brother first came to Lifeline, setting in motion a Adam & Lisa Glisson, chain reaction that Lifeline Graduates restored the marriage, indeed the lives, of Adam and Lisa.

Lisa was at a low point when she saw her brother begin to change with recovery. “My years of drug addiction became the only life I knew and the only way to escape all the hurt, pain and loss in my life,” she said. “I was at my ultimate rock bottom.”

After seeing her brother’s results, she entered our program in December 2014. “I found my hope, faith and God again!”

When she completed the three phases, she returned home in June 2015. Adam, she said, “was still in active addiction.”

Adam said drugs put him and his family on a roller coaster of emotions and problems for years. “I was in and out of jail and on probation most of my adult life,” he said. “I did not even know who I was any more, and the drugs made me not care about anything.”

Adam & Lisa Glisson, Lifeline Graduates

When Lisa returned from treatment, he saw a difference, and he knew he wanted what she had experienced. “I saw the peace and happiness she had in her, and I wanted that,” he said.

He entered Lifeline and graduated in 2016.

Originally from Murray, they have relocated to McCracken County, where she works as a legal secretary and he is a carpenter.

“I have never been happier,” Adam said. “Our marriage has been restored, and our relationship with our children. We are truly blessed for what God has done in our lives and in our family.”

Lisa said they are grateful to Lifeline, where treatment costs just $1,800 a person for nine months, compared to $14,000-$27,000 at most 30- day treatment programs. Lifeline keeps costs low with many volunteer services and with donor gifts, which cover almost three-fourths of Lifeline’s $6,500 cost per person.

Lisa can’t put a price on the ongoing love and support they receive from Lifeline. “Not only did they help us break the chains of addiction and restore our relationship with God,” she said, “but also they have given us a forever family.”