Susan-Lynne Hall
Recovery Services Administrator
Recovery Innovations of North Carolina
My personal journey began in Carmel, New York, a small quiet town about 50 miles upstate from New York City nestled among rolling hills encircling placid lakes. I am the youngest of 4 children and although we reside in 3 different states, we are still very close.
After high school I studied Biology with a concentration in Community Health at SUNY-Cortland. I left school when anorexia affected my health and made it impossible to continue. As a result, I had my first hip replacement at age 27 and a re-replacement ten years later. Since leaving college, I have tried my hand at several different vocations. Some were really fun, such as working for a Vineyard on the Cayuga Trail in Ithaca, NY. Some were not so fun, like when I decided to apply my biology education to making a career as an exterminator. I lasted one whole month! Couldn’t do it! I found that my lifelong spiritual connection to animals and all of Mother Earth’s beings extended to bugs, spiders, and other assorted “pests.”
I finally discovered what I believe to be my Life purpose, once I found recovery and came to believe that recovery is for everyone! My career in recovery began as a Peer Support Specialist / Wellness Educator at The Oasis in New Bern, NC in 2005. I was promoted to Lead Wellness Educator and relocated to Greenville, NC to open HOPE Station in the fall of 2007. Now in Spring of 2009 I begin my RI journey with the kickoff of HOPE Station Wellness City!
As Recovery Services Administrator at HOPE Station Wellness City in Greenville, NC, I am privileged and honored to have this amazing opportunity to pilot RI’s cutting edge Wellness City model for recovery. I want to see the walls bursting at the seams with people supporting one another on their journeys of recovery. I am fortunate to have had people in my life who held the hope for me. Now it’s my turn to pay it forward.