Alyssa Yarnell and her daughter MacKenzie at their home in Tulsa, OK. Yarnell grew up with a single mother who had a drug addiction and sold drugs from their home. Though Alyssa was determined her own motherhood would be different, Alyssa became addicted to heroin and eventually lost custody of her daughter MacKenzie. After prison time, rehabilitation facilities, and attempts to get clean on her own, Alyssa was admitted to Women in Recovery, an 18-month intensive recovery program. Alyssa knew that she wanted to go due to her responsibility to her daughter and her desire to be a good mother.“I had let my daughter down enough and I was done,” Alyssa said. “When I left for Women in Recovery, I explained it to Kenzie by saying that I had made bad choices and that I was going there to make better ones, to be a better mom and person.”