Hope McCron of MacTier

Loving mother conquers addiction and mental illness and serves as a role model to families everywhere.

Hope McCron grew up in a home with serious family problems, no running water, and never enough money to support all ten kids at once.  She married and started her own family at 15, but her married life soon began to mirror her childhood.  She looks back and describes herself as being continually penniless and pregnant.

Hope soon became severely depressed and began drinking.  Things got worse when two of her four children were born with learning disabilities.  She finally hit rock bottom when two of her children became wards of the Children’s Aid Society.  She knew what she had to do – leave her husband and embark on a path to recovery.

As it turns out, Hope was well named.  She began attending AA meetings and with the determination to save her family and herself, she got sober.  She also began individual counselling sessions and is continually working on coming to terms with her past.  Hope recently retired from a successful career as a systems administrator with the Government of Ontario.  She now serves as a leader and a teacher for a support group in her community, and as an inspiration and a role model to anyone who seeks her help.

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