I always watch your podcasts and I really enjoy them as I am going through recovery myself. I go to an alcohol and drug recovery service and mentioned your podcasts in one of the sessions and they’ve now added your RU-vid channel named on material they hand out to everyone who access the service because of me 😊.
As someone who has 4yrs 1mo and 6days of continuous sobriety (12 Step + spiritual/esoteric studies + work in recovery) it's about people, places and things. I'm a musician and have played in Death Metal bands and Black Metal bands for decades. My old friends, while I'm cordial and run into them in public I will not go around them because my boundary is not getting loaded around me. If I go to gigs, I go with a recovery buddy. I can still go out to dinner with trusted friends who support me and they may have a glass of wine or one beer, and that is no problem. But I will not step foot into a bar, and that's one of my boundaries. Bars exist for one reason, to drink alcohol. So being around those who do not respect my path, my journey, my health and my life, I have pushed away from that table and move on with my happiness and throughout myself with people who are doing shit, changing, growing and who are sober/clean or only drink rarely. There's enough studies now, with legitimate researchers, that nobody should be drinking more than two alcoholic drinks a month. It is that toxic to the body. So I was just introduced to this channel recently and look forward to diving in. Here's to another 24 hours, everyone who is sober clean right now is a miracle and don't give up, You are worthy of a life worth living.
