3. I'm not waiting for the next drink to feel better.
4. Alcohol and drugs are not in front of everything I do and everything I am. They were always a wall between me and life because they came first, no matter what I told myself to the contrary.
5. I have a chance to find out who I am and my life feels very meaningful now...only, of course, I don't know WHAT it means. Who cares? :)
1 I enjoy coping with challenges sober and not avoiding/escaping them 2 I like being able to feel deeply and without ambivalence 3 I love the quality of my relationships, the renewed trust 4 I love the energy that comes with restored health 5 I love having my sense of humour back
Hi. I'm Angela. Eclectic Recovery is my blog and I welcome you to its pages.
ER began as an exploration into my ongoing issues with addiction/mental illness and the solutions I employed and experiences I went through attempting to navigate a course to health. Mostly they have been unsuccessful and ridiculous. Such, I find, is much of life.
My own problems with addiction have led me to catch onto the fact that virtually the entire world is addicted and that a forced detox is imminent. Peak oil, climate change & continued destruction, imperialism, corruption, global financial and food insecurity - these things will not go away just because we don't look.
My recent intense self-education into these issues still feels way behind the curve. At the same time, I realize that the majority of folks still can't stomach the topics and are in deep denial of our dilemma. But becoming informed and taking action, accepting responsbility and stepping up to the plate are going to, at the very least, make it much easier when you release that last breath. At best, you could get to be part of a revolution for change that will move us from an oiil-based, patriarchally defined way of life towards a reverence based society wherein all life is honored and we become, again, just another part of that life.
There's a lot of information out there and I believe I've gotten pretty good at separating the wheat from the chaff. I am called to provide anyone who happens to visit ER the good information I'm finding and attempt to engage them in action.
Peacefully. Respectfully.
ER is no longer just a personal blog. It's political, too.
7 comments:
1. Don't have to wonder what I did last night.
2. I'm not sick.
3. I'm not waiting for the next drink to feel better.
4. Alcohol and drugs are not in front of everything I do and everything I am. They were always a wall between me and life because they came first, no matter what I told myself to the contrary.
5. I have a chance to find out who I am and my life feels very meaningful now...only, of course, I don't know WHAT it means. Who cares? :)
For me, it's definitely the ability to make conscious choices. Even if they are wrong, at least I can choose again without too much damage.
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Congratulations, Angela...I like just feeling free and clear! xxoo, O
C, you crack me up. :)
Yes, Chani, I'm with you on that.
Me, too, O!
Good to see you back and posting again.
At 21 months sober
1 I enjoy coping with challenges sober and not avoiding/escaping them
2 I like being able to feel deeply and without ambivalence
3 I love the quality of my relationships, the renewed trust
4 I love the energy that comes with restored health
5 I love having my sense of humour back
Love
Mary
1. Not doing or saying things I might regret later.
2. Being present in the moment.
3. Being able to trust people.
4. Feeling healthy.
5. This.
EOH, oh yes, definitely that.
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