I’ll share, too. 50 something who’s 32 days sober. Didn’t know how to “do” sobriety until it was too late to make a difference in my marriage. So, now I am rebuilding/reinventing/rediscovering me while sober.
Nate, it is so very good to see you. I'm so happy that you are here (for real, I'm smiling as I type) and that you shared. 32 days, man. Be so proud. It's the journey of a lifetime. I know it hurts. I know it liberates and forgives. Let's keep going.
This was perfectly on time for me as my task on the next week or so is to actually write a proper “About Me.” Thanks for showing up and sharing, even when parts of you felt like a cop out. I have those parts, too, and while I know they’re trying to help, it doesn’t always feel that way.
Josh, what a kind and generous thing to say, thank you so much. I'm so happy it was timely for you! That's so cool. Wishing you all the best with tackling your About Me page. It is a most humbling experience! :)
What a thought provoking piece. I was captured by your philosophical intro and then nodding entirely in agreement with making sense of who we are in our fluid narratives. Because who I am slightly changes come every Sunday when I look at my bio and think yeah that’s outdated now, or OK I didn’t mention this huge thing I’ve always been. Thank you for a great share.
Adam, thank you so much for taking the time to share with me. It means a lot coming from you as I know you believe deeply in a philosophical perspective on such things. I'm so grateful this resonated with you! And I'm smiling about your Sunday bio review, haha - you nailed it...This must be why we revisit and revisit. We are really revisiting ourselves. :) Isn't it grand to have so much respect for who we are, and who we are becoming. Happy Sunday, my friend.
I struggled with addictions for many years. As well have a codependency on the insulin Ive needed since I was twelve. I even wanted to say that two weeks without the cost of my life being the cost of the rising prices of the same thing that's been revamped for a cheaper price. When growing up, I'd never had a chance to be taught how I was feeling mattered. But then in the age of 12 to 13 I started to find emotional validations from the fact of illegal drugs and led me to the point of holding multiple lives in my arms as they were passing from overdose. I think I need to be able to say the only thing that's worse than the addiction to the addict is the people who are sick of the same reason as why it's not the person, it's the addiction as the placed blame of the deflections or the groups of those who have a codependency on the people with whom go down the rabbit hole till it's deaths door being opened.
I’ll share, too. 50 something who’s 32 days sober. Didn’t know how to “do” sobriety until it was too late to make a difference in my marriage. So, now I am rebuilding/reinventing/rediscovering me while sober.
Nate, it is so very good to see you. I'm so happy that you are here (for real, I'm smiling as I type) and that you shared. 32 days, man. Be so proud. It's the journey of a lifetime. I know it hurts. I know it liberates and forgives. Let's keep going.
Thanks, Allison. Your kind words mean more to me than you’ll ever know.
32 days is a long time to not drink, Nate. Great work and keep going.
This was perfectly on time for me as my task on the next week or so is to actually write a proper “About Me.” Thanks for showing up and sharing, even when parts of you felt like a cop out. I have those parts, too, and while I know they’re trying to help, it doesn’t always feel that way.
Josh, what a kind and generous thing to say, thank you so much. I'm so happy it was timely for you! That's so cool. Wishing you all the best with tackling your About Me page. It is a most humbling experience! :)
Love it, Allison. No apology necessary. Truly. 💛
I cannot thank you enough for your kind and generous heart, Ann. I'm so grateful you are here. Thank you!
What a thought provoking piece. I was captured by your philosophical intro and then nodding entirely in agreement with making sense of who we are in our fluid narratives. Because who I am slightly changes come every Sunday when I look at my bio and think yeah that’s outdated now, or OK I didn’t mention this huge thing I’ve always been. Thank you for a great share.
Adam, thank you so much for taking the time to share with me. It means a lot coming from you as I know you believe deeply in a philosophical perspective on such things. I'm so grateful this resonated with you! And I'm smiling about your Sunday bio review, haha - you nailed it...This must be why we revisit and revisit. We are really revisiting ourselves. :) Isn't it grand to have so much respect for who we are, and who we are becoming. Happy Sunday, my friend.
I struggled with addictions for many years. As well have a codependency on the insulin Ive needed since I was twelve. I even wanted to say that two weeks without the cost of my life being the cost of the rising prices of the same thing that's been revamped for a cheaper price. When growing up, I'd never had a chance to be taught how I was feeling mattered. But then in the age of 12 to 13 I started to find emotional validations from the fact of illegal drugs and led me to the point of holding multiple lives in my arms as they were passing from overdose. I think I need to be able to say the only thing that's worse than the addiction to the addict is the people who are sick of the same reason as why it's not the person, it's the addiction as the placed blame of the deflections or the groups of those who have a codependency on the people with whom go down the rabbit hole till it's deaths door being opened.