Look don’t you love this farm picture? It is one of favorite locations just outside Park City, Utah
I am ashamed that I have neglected this blog since Valentines day and here we are on October 1st. Yikes. The building of a groundbreaking, remarkable one of a kind treatment program requires that me – we – us spend countless, seemingly endless days and nights working. The effort it takes to walk through the mire of mud that working with government agencies requires makes blogging seem like a luxury activity and I honestly haven’t had the time nor have I been very inspired.
But I decided today to renew my efforts to make an impact ( however nano small) on the addiction universe for again…not the addict as much for the parents, spouses and siblings that suffer too.
My favorite thing to do is to engage our members in conversations of creativity and question. You can be a person with purpose, passion and possibilities. You can.
You can send your demons to the light – letting the universe and it’s attending guardians fight your battle. You can heal but don’t just trade one bad habit for another habit of instant gratification. Great – thanks for being clean from heroin but if you are having random sex with people you don’t know just for the big bang effect – you are not clean nor are you sober.
This is the moral confusion that creates relapse. Find your compass, restore your moral integrity and be YOU – who the great Creator intended you to b e.
Love you. Oh so what this means is that I too have decided to love myself more and I stopped drinking soda… specifically coca-cola. Not that I am particularly invested in the need to have caffeine or a particular brand but I admit I love the burn of the carbonation as it is sipped and slowly gurgles and burns down my throat. Yep. love it. with a big AAAHHHH that is where my craving is. But I have given it up.
Cold turkey – I took some Advil the first morning but really not even a headache ( yahoooo ) and no cravings. I’m sure soon someone will have to talk me off the ledge ass I scream ” I need a coke” but I am happy to hope for a cleaner more sober me.
I was thrilled to note to myself that I wasn’t all controlling and angry if I didn’t get to the market fountain each morning – that has brought peace to my day. Not only will I save some cash but I know I will drop some weight – that 500 empty calories a day has been nasty to my waistline.
A woman of my mature age doesn’t need her body to be an enemy – I need my wits about me to run this program. I love being able to say ” No one has expanded a comprehensive multi- dimensional approach to recovery like we have – solution designed recovery” ( Thanks JLO )
Every step we make moving forward is a step towards a fearless mind and one of gratitude for being addiction free ( even if it is free from Coke) Eliminating those external influences that paralyze our success’s – ya that is what High Performance means.
So I encourage anyone who may be fence sitting about being enslaved by soda – Be free my friends.
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