23 years clean and sober
And here I am working on another 4th STEP. we do recover one day at a time but life does happen. Resentment, fears, anxiety, and depression rise up. So what do we do in moments like this.
Here’s my experience, my strength and my hope.
Through the past 13 years of my sobriety I’ve had a lot of pain a lot of sorrow, a lot of life circumstances.
From 2011 to 2018 I had to fight court to protect my children.
I had to go through the loss of my mom in 2018
The loss of one of my best friends of 17 years who relapsed in 2018.
In 2019 my father passed away I had to go to that loss.
And then two 2022 my wife and I separated I had to go through that loss!!!
2023, my cousin lost two of her children, Her daughter, from an overdose and then one month later a drug dealer killed her son. I had to go through the loss of losing a niece and nephew and filling the pain. And see and feel my cousin go through from losing two children less than a month apart.
The amazing thing is I didn’t have to pick up a drink or a drug. I was able to be present. I was able to walk through the pain. I was able to be there for the ones that needed me most. My family, my friends, my loved ones!!!
Now I’m working another 4th STEP AND I’M SO GRATEFUL I GET TO GET OUT MY FEARS, MY RESENTMENTS,MY HARMS. And most of all my part.
So if you’re out there and you’re struggling and you don’t know how to get to the other side.
Please find someone that you can fully trust work the steps. And please work the steps.
WE DO RECOVER