Janice entered into Recovery in Winnipeg in 1970 after a disastrous series of events which brought her to the “jumping off” point. She’s been successful in Recovery for 48 years; and in that time time enjoyed an amazing career, a lovely marriage, extensive travel and an ever increasing sense of joy about life in/ after Recovery. She moved to BC with her husband and became painfully aware of the barriers to Recovery for young women .. especially if they had young dependant children. One evening at a retirement party a woman asked “do you think there are enough Recovered women in WR to sustain an Avalon Center”. That question became the formative moment for the White Rock Avalon centre. The project has given meaning and purpose to her life... which turns out to be what she had been searching for all along.