@Sober_lifestyl ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹 There’s also a bad ass @SummerRecovery who’s in recovery too! Total respect to this lady who motivates me on a daily basis! ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
Odaat tattoo for 1 year today absolutely substance free. I am so proud of myself. 3 years of being in recovery with long periods of abstinence. There's so many I want to thank and all the friends I have made. #RecoveryPosse
One of those days where I don’t want to function or engage. No motivation or enthusiasm. Still in pjs. Just want to cry, cuddle my dog and eat rubbish. Think I’ll devour a book.
I hope everyone else has a positive day 😊👍🙏
#Recoveryposse#Thistooshallpass
Lies Big Alcohol tells us:
1. You need alcohol to have fun.
2. Everyone is drinking alcohol.
3. Alcohol will enhance your life.
4. You need alcohol to socialize.
5. You need alcohol to celebrate.
6. You need alcohol to deal with pain.
#RecoveryPosse what would you add?
For those of you who don’t know- my husband has asked for a divorce and life at home is not comfortable. My youngest son just came in and gave me this. It’s made my day #recoveryposse
This is my dad. He is the best person that I know. Not always being able to understand me, but always supporting me through it all: the failed schools, the travels, the doctors, the shrinks, the alternative therapies.
Even when he didn't believe in any of it, he believed in me.
Nobody knew how deep my addiction went. When it was time to tell people I was leaving for rehab, telling my dad was the hardest of all. We were driving in his car and he thought I had gone to another psychologist.
He said: "I thought you didn't want to do that anymore."
I took a deep breath, heart pounding in my throat: "Actually, I went to a rehab intake. For addiction."
He went silent for a few seconds. Softly he asked: "What are you addicted to?"
"Alcohol, mostly."
Then he got really quiet. He focused on the road for a while taking it all in. Cleared his throat a few times. Finally, in a broken voice he asked me: "Is it my fault?"
Bless his heart, I thought. "No dad, it's nobodies fault."
He put a hand on my knee and right there and then I felt everything was gonna be alright.
Now we are on a sober holiday together. Yesterday we had a restday from all the hiking. I cooked for him and we spent hours talking about our lives. Our old lives, and our new lives, with a newfound positivity and strength.
Everything I ever did had a ripple effect on the people around me, even when I thought that it didn't. Now that ripple effect goes the other way. By saving my life, I am saving the people around me, and my dad deserves it most of all.
I have difficulty saying it, but I love him a lot. He knows. I show it by being present, by being strong, by doing my best.
Take care everyone.