Dedicated To Mariah

This page is dedicated to Mariah Hull who lost her battle with depression while fighting addiction, taking her own life on October 25, 2015. This page was inspired by those who love her to do something in honor of Mariah. Mariah loved to read and would lose herself in books for hours which gave us the inspiration to build a small library in memory of Mariah Hull at Crossroads recovery for women in Phoenix, AZ. 

Crossroads is where Mariah first found recovery. Crossroads was gracious enough to approve a small but humble library in their common area where the Counts family painted the walls purple (Mia's favorite color) and put up brand new book shelf's along the back wall and filled them with donated books. The library was completed on March 7th, 2016 on Mariah's Birthday five months after her death. Crossroads for women in Phoenix has relocated to Mesa, AZ. 

Our recovery community needs a little kindness a helping hand and solicitude, they are broken and at a loss greater than you and I will ever understand. Some are lucky and have family who are willing to help but most of them are homeless coming off the streets. Sadly, there is hardly any compassion for recovering addicts. What people forget that these are people too and they are fighting addiction, depression, anxiety, mental illness and could use some humanity.  

 The hope of this page is to inspire others to seek help, to break the silence  and to show human kindness.

Mariah's Favorite Poem (tattooed on her back) 

HOPE IS A THING WITH FEATHERS by Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.