Pat Groeper asked Robert Imbeault:

Just finished your book! What a journey you have had! Obviously you are one intelligent,full of passion & fortitude! Your life in no way resembles mind BUT! BUT! As a child of 2 alcohol addicted parents, a mother that drank herself to death at 30! A Dad who never saw a sober day till I was 18! DID I MISS SOMETHING? Did you ever admit you were an addicted to drugs or how you became sober without rehab?

Robert Imbeault Hey Pat, thank you for reaching out and sharing. I absolutely did admit to my addictions a few times throughout the book and as for sobriety, it was the series of smaller victories over the course of years such as meditating every day, daily gratitude practice, forgiving myself when I slipped early on, focusing on my purpose which when I found out my wife was pregnant with our first we adopted a zero-tolerance policy. I found a great therapist, I reached out to people I wronged, and my wife might be considered my sponsor so even tho I didn't enter a 12-step program I feel I checked most of the same boxes. I might have healed faster and less painfully had I entered one I don't know.

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