Status Updates From All the Way to the River

Temptations come, and when they do you will have 30 seconds to save your life. Run. After 30 seconds, your addiction will take control over your mind and you will no longer have any agency.

It took me three years and three different sponsors to work my way completely through the 12 steps, which was a humbling experience . It took me nearly a year just to do the infamous step four in which we make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, because I had so many shadows and secrets that needed to be sorted through and inventoried. Stay in your lane and keep working your program

As of this writing, I’ve been clean and sober for almost 5 years. Still a beginner but it’s an important mile stone. They say it takes five years of sobriety before you even begin to get your marbles back. It takes a minute for your brain to land in clarity, and finally start thinking straight.

365 days clean …
She went deeper into her recovery program during Covid which was online.
I moved deeper into my solitude, my artwork, my prayers, and nature. I got off social media, at First for days at a time, and then for months at a time. I started working on a new novel, I went for a long walks all alone in the woods, I practiced yoga, and never stopped talking to God. I meditated and wrote poetry

Withdrawing with drawing

There’s a reason addicts keep a day count. It’s because each day clean is like a pearl on a string and you get to keep them all-until you become a pearl yourself.
It’s a process not without its irritations but it’s pointing toward the good and the beautiful.

Celebrate your discomfort. This is what it feels like to change.

Stay in your lane and work your program.
The results will come.

There is a season for giving things up. It requires the heart of a lion, though. Are you ready to walk away? Are you ready to finally be finished?

Your name is somebody
Somebody around here needs to change.
And your name is somebody.