There are basically two kinds of deadlines, those that YOU MAKE and those that LIFE MAKES FOR YOU. Agreeing to be an advocate for HIR was a big thing for me. It was the first real commitment I had made in sobriety— except for the time I promised Sallie Mae Henson on the playground that I would be her best friend forever. I think I was six years old; I was sober at six! Recovery is what I’m passionate about these days. I took my position and my deadlines seriously. The past 2 and a half years were filled with everything I had ever wanted to do but didn’t have the time to do before.
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Alcoholism and drug abuse is a world-wide epidemic that doesn’t just vanish when a person makes a decision to change his way of life. Although a person may have chosen a new way of life for himself, there are still millions of people struggling with the same issues the person in recovery is seeking refuge from. Anyone currently in recovery for an addiction can tell you that they didn’t change until they wanted to change.
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In active addiction, my connections with life were completely severed. I excised all else from my soul. My priority was “to anesthesize the pain of living, to ease the passage of the day with some purchased relief.” Russel Brand gets credit for those words.
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As any person in recovery will tell you, life during recovery isn’t perfect. I recently asked a friend of mine what life is like for him now that he is in recovery. He said, “Life is still life. There are still a lot of downs.”
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Fear. The gripping four letter word that holds the most suffocating power over human beings at this time. From fear stems doubt, anixiety, depression, loneliness, angst, longing, want, and self-defeat.
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September 7, 2012 by
Nate
What I’d like to talk about is not the event itself but an interesting interaction that happened there. Once everyone had arrived, Jordan and I introduced ourselves and gave a quick presentation on Heroes in Recovery.
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