{"id":41214,"date":"2024-10-25T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/?page_id=41214"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:43:21","slug":"residents-creed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/about\/residents-creed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Portage Resident\u2019s Creed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/portage.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Users-Manual-Residential-2025.pdf.png\" alt=\"User&#039;s Manual - Residential 2025.pdf\" height=\"960\" width=\"624\" title=\"User&#039;s Manual - Residential 2025.pdf\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t<p class=\"lead\">Every morning, residents at Portage&#8217;s <a href=\"\/en\/services\/\">drug addiction rehabilitation centres<\/a> recite the Portage Resident&#8217;s Creed to\u00a0start the day off in a positive and constructive way:<\/p>\n<p><em>I have come here in search of myself. Confused and afraid, I have led my life in the shadow of drugs. I have rejected all who cared for me and loved me. I had become a stranger to my family. Guilt, lies and hurt became my most intimate companions, drugs and alcohol my most cherished friends. I belonged nowhere and to no one. I felt desperately alone.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here at last, I have found true friends. I no longer need to be the giant of my dreams or the dwarf of my fears. I am allowed to be genuine, to express my emotions. My friends act as a mirror for me, our common quest heals me. The strengths, love and dreams that now live within me have become beacons for my life.<\/p>\n<p>From here I will go forth, whole once more, self-aware, confident and assured, never to live in the shadows again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning, residents at Portage&#8217;s drug addiction rehabilitation centres recite the Portage Resident&#8217;s Creed to\u00a0start the day off in a positive and constructive way: I have come here in search of myself. Confused and afraid, I have led my life in the shadow of drugs. I have rejected all who cared for me and loved&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/about\/residents-creed\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read The Portage Resident\u2019s Creed\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10157,"parent":12082,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-41214","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47795,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41214\/revisions\/47795"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}