Mountain Girl Silver - Hand-Stamped Customized Silver Jewelry - Portland, Oregon

If you go and google “medical alert jewelry” or “recovery jewelry”….. just about all you’re going to find is stuff that makes you go.. “EWWWWWWWWW”…   I’m sorry,,, not a fan of dream-catchers and sterling silver Indian feather charms or big ol hunks of turquoise nuggets in the shape of the AA symbol….. or big ol stainless steel medical alert bracelets that are going to turn your wrist black… or green… or whatever cheap stuff does.  And so the lightbulb went off in my little pea-brain. There is a need in our world for classy, necessity jewelry. The need is there, and I’m not saying that ALL of the recovery jewelry out there is cheezy, I’m just saying that there needs to be more choices to the already existing styles. You can’t deviate very far away from the symbol. It is what it is, and the NA and AA symbols as well as the NEDA (National Eating Disorder Association) are symbols that mean so much to so many……..   including me…………

I started my journey into sobriety 68 days ago. The clarity that sobriety has given me, has filled me with the passion to make a line of jewelry specifically for those like me. I’m proud to be me, and I wear a necklace with a symbol on it, but I had to buy it online. It took me for-ev-er to find the perfect pendant to wear that fit my style, and then it hit me. I’m a jeweler, so why don’t I make my own stuff!!!!   So, I talked this afternoon with my guy who I work with in California to create 4 custom stamps. I spoke to a company in Colorado as well, and I will be casting a one-of-a-kind, simple pendant to stamp these symbols on. This is all very very exciting for me. When I get an idea in my head, I do whatever it takes to put it into play. And I really, truly feel that what I can create with my two hands is going to touch the lives of many. Some people who are members of AA or NA or NEDA aren’t hip on wearing big ol honkin’ symbols around their necks or wrists, but I feel that if I give them the opportunity to create their OWN style, with their own combination of words and sentiments, then there will be recovering individuals, and people with medical issues walking around wearing something they are comfortable with.  And when you have a medical issue, or when you are in recovery, every single ounce of comfort matters. Even down to the symbol you live by……….

It is my mission….. I feel that this is a simple way to service the fellowship and unity of people like me, and people who live with a life threatening medical condition.

All this being said, I have another announcement ;c)   The Mountain Girl Silver website, here shortly, will be undergoing a make-over. There’s going to be new photos, new colors, a new “vibe” if you will. It’s still going to function the same easy way, just going to look different and feel different. And I’m sure if you’re reading this blog, then your eyes are getting all jimmy jacked from the white on black writing…. not good.  My website is a reflection of me…….   I used to be bold and “in your face” and loud……   and, well,…  I think that all needs to change, as I have changed. The word “HUMILITY” hangs around my neck today…..    I’ve said this a million and a 1/2 times in my life… “Change is Good”….  and it is…

If there is something in your life that you’ve been thinking about changing…. but are scared, and don’t know how to go about it……   there’s help out there. There’s help, and a million trillion billion people in your same shoes. Feeling hopeless has got to be the scariest, worst, debilitating feeling that God gave us the ability to feel. Everything can turn around for anyone…….   I know this from first hand experience. There is nothing that matters more to me and my life than my sobriety. Because if it weren’t for my sobriety, then everything else wouldn’t matter anyway………..

Be well……

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