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You Can’t Out-Tough Addiction | Eric Metcalf’s Journey Through Recovery – Part 2 | Episode 34
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What happens when the person who has spent his life helping others becomes the one who needs to be saved? In Part 2 of our conversation with Army veteran, recovery advocate, author, and NAMI DuPage Director of Peer Workforce Development Eric Metcalf , we continue a story that ultimately became about much more than addiction. After the death of his wife Jan, Eric intentionally began tearing apart the life they had built together. Eventually, the former shelter director found himself homeless, battling addiction, pushing away the people trying to reach him, and even staying in the same shelter he once helped lead. But people kept showing up. Former students Eric once mentored came looking for…