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Sobriety gave me a second chance at life

I drink and do drugs. That's who I am. It's in my bones. It's in my soul.

Turn your pain into purpose.

Dear future me... I don't know what's ahead of us, but I'm ready for it.

I got to that point where I was pretty sure this thing was gonna kill me.

You really owe it to yourself to give this a shot, because this can be life changing for you if you're really struggling.

I experience pain now but I experience joy too. I was so hopeless for so long and now my life is filled with hope.

We believe that life is for growth and growth, though painful, is always worth the effort.

I was very blessed to be in a situation to get better. You're worth it.

You can't get too high or too low. It's the rhythm of balance.

You are never too young or to old to shuffle the deck of life.

I can see myself in that lens because I was there, and now I'm here.

You're still going to get to that same destination. You just have to change that way.

I remember my why through my purpose.

Great is one of those little words that doesn't even begin to cover what I feel about my sobriety.

Waking up motivated instead of wanting to die is a great day.

It is glorious when you get to the other side.

I get to live life now.

I never imagined what all sobriety could be until I finally surrendered and gave it a chance.

Don't Quit On Quitting

I was definitely using alcohol to switch my brain off.

Anything we put before sobriety, we lose.

At the end of the day the only why is love because we have to love ourselves to stay in recovery.

Alcoholism, addiction- it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless you're in it.

Try to find it within you to want to get clean. Don't ever give up hope.

I'm not a bad person. I made some bad decisions, but I'm not a bad person.

Maybe there's a reason we had the past we had, so we can give back now.

Addiction is an actual illness... an actual mental illness that makes my brain works differently.

You're not alone and you're certainly not unique.

All we need to do is humble ourselves, put our hand out and ask "Help me, help me please. I don't know where to go."

It's not until I get to a meeting that I realize why I'm there.

Everyday I thought, this is it for me, this is how I am... I'm a drinker. I'm just a drinker.

I honestly believe that nobody is beyond redemption.

There is literally an entirely different life ready & waiting for you... you just have to be brave enough to take that first step.

How did I even deal with life being impaired, because life itself is hard in general. How did I do this drunk & high?

At the end of the day I must take care of myself first above everything else. I have to maintain my spiritual condition. I have to stay on point.

Gratitude is one of the key elements in my recovery. Everyday I wake up grateful to be alive.

My why is because I still feel... I know physically, mentally what it feels like to be on that 5th day of a bender.

Find somebody who has something you want & ask how they got it.

Sobriety is this amazing string of miracles I get to be a part of.

Take it minute by minute. Take it step by step.

You're worth recovery. Give it a go.

You're looking so much at the destination you're not learning anything on the journey.

I want to grow up before I die.

Once you accept that you have a problem with alcohol, that's when the change will take place.

I was the victim in every circumstance, but I was also the cause of every one of my circumstances.

Once you start taking a chemical, whatever your poison is, everything else comes second.

All the willpower and all of the thought that you think you have to be able to combat this is not enough. There is a solution out there for this that is rooted in the WE.

You know how you got here & you know how to fix it.

Reach out and let someone know you are struggling.

One of the biggest gifts I got from recovery is being able to momentarily be in the moment. Right here, right now.

Some thoughts are like a little black hole pulling me in and I'm fighting to not get pulled in. Like a tug of war with my thoughts.

Living with addiction is a daily reprieve... it never goes away

There was just nobody home anymore. I was a shell of a person.

I would take my worst day sober over my best day drinking.

I don't know who that person was... I never knew... I'm just figuring out who I am now

I'm a true believer that everything happens in God's time & everything happens for a reason.

I just try to be a little bit better today than I was the day before and not have to numb myself to the feelings that I have inside.

Be honest enough with yourself. This is all about self-honesty, rigorous honesty.

I had to earn all of my feelings and emotions... because I didn't know what they were.

We can give it all up and have one thing or we can give up one thing and have it all.

Keeping my sobriety on top & letting nothing come in between that is the biggest thing I have learned.

Heroin was the drug that finally brought me to my knees.

You can get sober at any point & you can get off the elevator at any floor. You don't have to go to the bottom.

Life reminds me everyday to 'Remember My Why' because the old me is always there

I kept thinking I'm drinking because I'm depressed as opposed to realizing I'm depressed because I'm drinking.

The thing that you thought was keeping you alive; the thing that you thought was allowing you to function, was the thing that destroyed you.

When things aren't going my way and I am feeling that spiritual cholesterol, I maintain the grind and know I will be alright.

I came to realize I was completely powerless over the disease of addiction.

I didn't realize I was having problems until alcohol took them away.

Take that leap of faith and give yourself a chance.

My life doesn't exist today until I figured out that drinking doesn't work.

There's no one way to the top of the mountain; it's a journey.

The gifts of recovery are beyond my wildest dreams.

I was meant to "fail" to find the path that I was meant to take.

Drugs made me feel absolutely nothing but I also felt like Superman at the same time.

I never had a legal drink or a drug in my life.

My 'Why' is to help the struggling addict, because I've been where they are.

I had to perform CPR on my son 5 different times due to overdose.

The struggle is part of the journey. It made me who I am.

Addiction does not discriminate. It can happen to anyone.

Sobriety is an easier and softer way of living.

I have the honor and the privilege of enjoying the things that I love in sobriety.

My addiction and sobriety journey led me to believe in myself.

If my eyes were open, alcohol was touching my lips.

The gift of desperation became a saving grace.

Getting clean was the best thing hands down I've ever done in my life.

If I want to be the husband and father I can be, I need to get up from this stool.

If you're open to change, the possibilities are endless.

Am I a good person who does bad things or a bad person who does good things?