WAW #6 Addiction and Redemption with David Hall pt. 3/3

In this episode David and I talk about how he came to get sober and regaining trust from his family.  We learn that the consequences of numbing consequences result in larger consequences.  Recovery treatment taught David how to find the center of himself.  “You can not forget about home because now you know about it” David reveals the big secret that trying to get sober for everyone else fails until the pain has to become so bad that the individual wants to make a change. Going from addict to fanatic- David experienced emotional distancing instead of enabling from family and intensified using substances.  Taking the path less traveled to his home, David took the last minute chance decision to take the long road home and ended up driving himself into a psychic epiphany. - Gaining a new perspective on life after realizing his decisions have been affecting his life and family.  This ended up with him calling his sponsor and making a deal to get sober.  He speaks on keeping his promise of delving into the 12 step program with private meetings a few times a week to study about sobriety. How his sponsor was a preacher who could help him in learning how to study and cross reference the recovery literature.  David talks about the importance of knowing where the center of yourself is and releasing secrets to a trusted confidant without judgement or worry of confidence being broken. He talks about the importance of having a trust built relationship with your sponsor- having a reliable person for your secrets and having developed trust with that person.  David says you can not be sober until you decide to be sober.  Finding the catalyst for a paradigm shift.  “The secrets will make you sick” David speaks about having to divulge his deepest secrets to his wife and parents.  He ends on the importance of acknowledging the good things in life.