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In this episode of My Sober Addiction, we are going for a little ride. During a relapse, I had a really bad overdose and found myself face to face with nothing, and everything at the same time. One of the many things addiction taught me was that all the religious programming I had received did not match up to what I experienced. I had been living sober for 16 days and the withdrawal symptoms were brutal. I came into some money and, as most addicts do, I talked myself into buying some heroin. Of course, it wasn’t really a relapse, right? I still intended to ride it out, kick my drug addiction and get sober once and for all…after this once. Once is all it takes! I overdosed and found myself in what I later learned to describe as the Quantum Field, where God creates from.

At that point in my addiction, I knew how to get sober but had no clue how to actually stay sober. That’s where treatment and rehab come into the equation. Even after that profound spiritual experience, I still didn’t find a life in sobriety, but it did plant a seed in me that then sprouted after I did. This is the story and what I learned.

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In this episode of My Sober Addiction we are revisiting the idea of being mindful of those traits, those tendencies, we had during active addiction. The thing is, if we really look back on life before and after active addiction, we realize that those traits are part of who we are. We carry them over into life when we are sober in our jobs, exercise and heath, relationships, hobbies, etc. We have to be aware of our mental state and not allow burn out to set in and risk relapse.

In the past, I’ve said that i would recommend someone hire addicts in recovery because of how dedicated they are. Of course that comes with a price to the addict in recovery, you may have higher expectations placed on you to maintain and prove your sobriety. Does that not sound fair? Maybe it isn’t but it’s just the way it is. Unfortunately, addicts do relapse and when they do…well, let’s just not do that.

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In this episode of My Sober Addiction, we have Kitty back for her 3rd appearance. We are looking into Empathy, Sympathy and Compassion and what are the differences. It is very important to know those differences because it could help to prevent you from being an Enabler. People that we love are sometimes still suffering in Active Addiction and while we want to help, we have to know when we are helping and when we are just perpetuating the addiction. Our goal is always to help people get sober and live a happy, healthy life in Recovery, of course, but we also know that people will not change until they are truly ready to.

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