I am a registered nurse with a BSN, a casual photographer and a mother who lost her son to addiction. ChasingNirvanaClean was created to honor my son’s fight against addiction. ChasingNirvanaClean is searching for the how and the why people enter and stay in sustained recovery. The goals of ChasingNirvanaClean are to rebrand those who are struggling with addiction as people struggling with a chronic disease, rebrand people in recovery as modern day heroic role models, educate the public on addiction and recovery, promote old and new recovery models, and change the art work we see in recovery facilities to more purposeful artwork.