Tag: recovery

  • Don’t miss me too much …

    Don’t miss me too much …

    It’s been a grueling 6 months beginning in August putting myself in the hospital for 8 days at Ocean View in Long Beach. Even though I got lucky twice hospitalized left on adderrall my luck ran out when placed in residential October 2023 and was taken off the med what’s now for good. At first…

  • Be Addicted to Bettering Yourself …

    Be Addicted to Bettering Yourself …

    The drive to improve is in all of us. Who doesn’t want to be better than where they are right now. It’s a good thing for us to push ourselves to be better people. The only problem with wanting to be better than we are is that sometimes we may feel like we’re not doing…

  • Not New to Sobriety ….

    Not New to Sobriety ….

    My sober journey began when I started college at CU Boulder when I stopped smoking weed. I used to be an athlete and played club soccer including my freshman year in college. I lived in the engineering quad. We would travel on weekends all over Colorado so just didn’t drink or smoke weed. I didn’t…

  • You Don’t Need to Be Perfect ….

    You Don’t Need to Be Perfect ….

    You don’t have to be perfect. Look at me hospitalized August put on a 5150 hold, twice and again in October then sent to residential for 22 days, PHP, then rehab for 8 days and now in sober living. No matter how you get there, get there and be proud. I’m proud to say I’m…

  • Friendship After Disability …

    Friendship After Disability …

    When you have friends you never worry about not having friends. Getting diagnosed with schizophrenia was one of the most painful time periods in my life in recovery and took the longest to get going and back up to speed. It also caused me unreasonable amount of difficulty mentally accepting voices as symptom and being…

  • Getting Back to the Old You …

    Getting Back to the Old You …

    Before you became a self-obsessed nut about life, assembling all that you can say, between now and when you began to be invested in the successful turn around we have all witnessed time and time again, there was a person, who was merely a fly on the wall, taking notes, and figuring out what to…

  • Right Now is About ….

    Right Now is About ….

    Right now is about getting well and staying well. From my shoes things can not be worse than they were going into the hospital that’s how little was on my side at the time of being placed in the ER it seems like the more others are involved in your health and the worse you…

  • Getting Back to Normal …

    Getting Back to Normal …

    We all go through this, when we just want to get back to normal. The most frustrating part of not feeling well, is trying to communicate how we are feeling and not push ourselves further away from our goals in life. How to get help, and how to know when to just sit with things.…

  • Today in Treatment …

    Today in Treatment …

    Today in treatment we learned about self-compassion and its three elements: self-kindness, mindfulness, and common humanity. Self-Kindness According to positivepsychology.com “self-kindness” is “Self-kindness is about showing kindness and understanding toward ourselves when we fail at something, or when we are hurt.” [1] Being kind to yourself means to accept yourself as you are in this…

  • Surprise Yourself …

    Surprise Yourself …

    Surprise yourself, you’re stronger than you think, history isn’t always right about you including your past. If in the past your last attempt to get strong either didn’t last got burnt out or lost momentum so much so you thought you slowed down in life due to old age, you haven’t lived enough life yet…