I sat with a closed mind and a closed heart, focusing only on the differences and not seeing any of the similarities. All while possessing the job of knowing every f'ing thing. Until one night your story was the mandatory recovery video we had to watch. Tomorrow I celebrate 90 days 🎉 I'm so in love with my new life. With all my heart I thank you 💓 God bless you 🙏
Love & respect brother i have 3 years 5 months 3 days… some days still better then others the dreams are gone an the need to want is gone during my sober time my daughter mother overdosed an passed dec29 2021 right after Thanksgiving after Christmas right before New Year’s, and my daughter was born January 4, 2016 so during that time everybody supposed to be happy and smiling with their families for the holidays and for the first year I was a mess I didn’t use I didn’t pick up a drug or drink. I didn’t even grieve the process of losing the love of my life of 10 years. I can tell you that I miss her every single day because when I was in my drug induced coma for 6 to 10 years of my life, she didn’t use a drink or a drug. She used to beat my ass. Leave me…take away my daughter from me…have me locked up. She left me once I got clean and dated some guy who was using IV heroin me being such a drug addict. you would think I could tell somebody who is using well with her I couldn’t she wasn’t losing weight she wasn’t missing work she was having a little things happened to her never red flag me everybody knew because she told everyone in her family and my mother I was the only one who did not know and my daughter did not know so I go back and I try to think maybe I could’ve helped her and everybody and I mean everybody says everybody makes thier your own choices. There’s nothing you could’ve done, and when I heard that for the first year of her death, I wanted to punch every single person that said that in their mouth, she didn’t have all the chances that I had all the 10 rehabs 15 detoxes years in jail three years in prison she did a 28 day program in December. That’s when I found out she was using and when she came home after the 28 days I seen her on Sunday with my daughter at my mothers house and I said hey I hope you’re OK and I would love to work on our family and she said yes that sounds good. Come Monday morning I get a call she had just left at 5 AM with my daughter crying behind her saying don’t leave mommy, that would be the last time my daughter seen her that would be the last time on Sunday that I’ve seen her. I got a call on Wednesday around 11 o’clock in the afternoon I was eating strawberry shredded mini wheats. I will never forget that day I got a call from my mother saying, she’s gone she overdosed I said OK and hung up the phone. I didn’t cry I didn’t break things I didn’t use. I was basically stuck in a trans Took a few days off from work to deal with the wake and funeral and I will tell you the most pain I’ve ever felt in my life and I’ve been through a lot of pain. I’ve caused it and I’ve been through it, but I will tell you the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my entire life was walking into that wake with my five-year-old daughter at the time, and as you walk in they they play slide shows with pictures of her and my daughter some with me mostly not, and all my daughter could do was cry and say I want my mommy and there was nothing that I could do to help her I felt helpless because like I said, I can’t bring back your mommy but if there’s one thing that I can do for you is, I will stay sober. I will stay healthy and I will always be here for you now. She’s seven hasn’t been that long. She remembers bits and pieces of her mother they say that to addict parents have a 90% something chance of having an adict child well, I’m here to tell you I’m going to beat that statistic and for the gentleman that gave her the drugs her boyfriend at the time nothing happened to him. Everybody in my family and her family even her twin sister, identical twin knew who gave her the drugs, and nothing happened to him. All she became. What is the percentage in the overdose rate in our county of New York I’m glad you have that many years sober and I just wanted to get this off my chest. You may not relate to it. I just had to speak about it because I don’t talk to nobody about it when I should get it out there, so I hope you’re doing well. I know I am I’m doing the best I can for myself my family and my daughter and that’s all I can do and believe me when I say you have three years clean and sober. That’s a great thing. It’s a great feeling knowing that because I just lost a friend a week ago childhood friend and I know there’s more to come whether it’s my other childhood friends doing or friends doing 12 years in the federal prison or another friend, who is just gonna pass away and die from an overdose or drugs, but I know it’s coming, when I first went to my first rehab, they said drugs are only gonna lead to three things and I’m sure you know what those three things are, if you’ve been to programs or any sort of meetings, and they are not joking when they say that jails institutions and death is all that brings of course I didn’t believe that at time I didn’t give a shit what they said, I was gonna get high regardless jail. Been there prison been there death is the only thing that hasn’t came for me, and I will not let it through drugs or alcohol, nor my health that I’m now working on because I’ve abused my body for so long that I need to recover and it’s gonna take more time to recover. Then I probably have left on this earth but I will every day eat better, do healthier things and work harder. Some people never get over that you were an addict or stole from them and we have to just understand that the only thing we can do is apologize anyways, my rant is over. I’m glad you have that much time I figured I would give you a little background on myself because we have around the same time clean and sober and I know it’s not easy some days, but as long as we don’t pick up that drug or drink, we will wake up the next day able to do better in life society and for our families anyways, thank you if you read all this and message back if you’d like Love&respect -nicolas from NY
Go Novak one of my heroes. Im struggling at the moment and these clean addicts are my heroes because its lethal fatal disease clean or not that youre dealing with daily.
Good luck and I hope you succeed in beating it. 13 years ago I was finally able to beat it and it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I couldn’t stand rehabs or AA’s so I basically cut myself off from the world for 2 years locked away in a bedroom at my parents home. Everyone is different and need to find a path that works for them but the common factor is things will get better as long as you cut out and get far away from people you use with or score from.
It's an higher power's grace that decides when you'll get it. Keep praying for it, hit your knees, and don't forget what's beautiful about your soul and worth saving. Addiction is mental illness.
When I mess up. Nobody tells me what an ass I am more than I do. My friends have to tell me to go easy on myself. So please believe me when I say You deserve recovery. Despite whatever you have done. Draw a line. Be a better person from hereon. If you slip up. Draw a new line. Try again. Be open minded willing and honest. Peace.
1-5-24 i will be one year clean. Heroin/Fentanyl almost took my life. Many years as a functioning addict. I am struggling and have been stressed lately and today this video showed up recommended. Thank you Novack you just helped me stay clean. Your story is truly remarkable.
Praise the Lord. Just keep hanging on, my dear friend. My brother was addicted for about 19 years. he died in 202. :''( Keep going don't give up my friend. No matter what anyone does or says it is not worth it to go back. Tc and GOD bless you!!! :))
Love this man! He is the most motivational speaker on addiction I have ever heard. He certainly had to endure a lot to get to the position in life he was created for…saving addicts lives.
Novak…. You blow my mind bro You fuckin look great! It took a minute… but, You are loving your purpose and it wouldn’t have happened without your history. Man addics want to hear this stuff from a true source not somebody who has a degree who is not an addictive personality. Thank you for your courage,persistence,honesty,etc. You really are an inspiration! I have your number just waiting for the courage to make the call Love you man and thank you for
Recovery is not just about giving up the substance or activity, is it ? There must be reconnection of the sufferer to their true inner feelings, so that they are not numb and distressed and seeking comfort or numbing as a way to cope with distress. That must be achieved as well as the change of habit, otherwise the original cause is still there.
Ya very true for me I’ve stayed sober 2 years now, but I was still sleeping in late, binging video games, eating like shit etc. I’ve now changed all of that. I wake up early, eat clean, exercise daily etc. trading bad habits for good ones 👊
I was a heroin and crack addict. 16 years of addiction and Jesus Christ saved me from it and healed me of my traumas. Jesus said “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, but by me.” Truth is objective, if it were subjective then it would contradict itself. Believe in Jesus Christ and be saved or face the due penalty for your sins in hell. A holy God must punish us for our sins, Jesus took those sins upon himself so they would not be counted against us. All you need to do is accept what he did, turn away from your sins, and live for Jesus to be saved from eternal punishment.
Infuriates you? It was you. So yes. Who are you to... But thanks 👍 and I have heard the same tales from him, every time I have tried to learn from him. I do appreciate You*, your honesty, and what worked for You ❤️🔥
Novak spits out more cliche sentences than I've ever heard anybody lol. But it's a good thing that he's staying sober, and if the cliches can help him then that's great
He is an amazing speaker. I hope he continues to help others and stays on track. He will be tempted 24/7 and has easy access to whatever he wants. Talk about having very strong willpower! My only vice is drinking wine at night. I used to drink apple ciders or fruity alcohol drinks during the day. Used to drink at work. Had a few years of vodka and raspberry lemonade. Sooo good but all it did was numb me and i'd pass out on the couch. I was avoiding life and choosing the numbness. Then i reduced my drinking to just mostly night and usually only boxed wine. I recently broke my daily habit and have been sober for 4 days. Going to bed with a belly full of wine can't be a good. I can still be happy without drinking. I needed to break the schedule. So i drank water instead of wine and letting my body heal. I'm not quitting drinking but it definitely won't be everyday. Once you interrupt a habit you will look at it totally differently. It loses its imaginary power you gave it.
You're not going to be better until you can put it down for good and commit to saying you will. Because if you wont proclaim it, it's not going to happen. You have to make your mind up that your desire to be healthy in mind, spirit, and body is greater than your desire to drink. The latter does NOTHING good for your mind, body, and soul. You're running from something. Figure out what it is, face it, and prioritize your health and peace. Growth can't happen if you won't step outside your comfort zone. If it's hard, then you're doing the right thing.
Yeah and do you people not realize that BAM MARGERA os a dear and loved friend of Brandon Novak and currently Bam ks suffering greatly from addiction so that hopefully Bam sees this and realizes he can do it.
This is the SAME EXACT speech given on the Rehab Road Trips RU-vid channel. He comes off a little better here. The other speech he seems really disingenuous and almost like he's high. Not judging. Just my opinion. Hope he keeps doing well.
Y'all had no problem making him the butt of destruction, knowing he was high, it is horrible to see the abuse that was laid on him. You guys are abusive bullies!
The opiates were a issue , the fentanyl overdoses are a crisis ! Ive been on longterm MAT , while taking care of my mother who is on pain management cannot get hermeds because none of the pharmacies could get her oxymorphone ! I wish more emphasis would be placed on the fentanyl coming across the border , not doctors prescribing legit pain meds !!
