I never would have linked MLMs to drinking/isolation. I just thought people were trying to make extra money. However, I did notice behavioral changes in a couple of friends trying to sell me stuff I didn't need. Fascinating and enlightening!
I'm so happy to see a "recovery based" outlet publish the obvious fact (to me, at least) that sobriety is personal and has absolutely nothing to do with the drinking habits of others. Even family. I've had to forgo helping people in their journey because of my "unorthodox " views on recovery. That hurts because my experience, my success in recovery, can be helpful to people. I want to be of help and it sometimes feels as if all I've been through is wasted, somehow selfish, in that I'm healthy and happy and others struggle.
My writing rebirth occurred three years into sobriety and it's been the greatest change of my life. The quiet, solitary hours around dawn, pen and paper in hand, provide me a vessel of self understanding and expression that alcohol enabled me to rob from myself. Note that I didn't say alcohol robbed me, I did. Alcohol was simply a tool. I know the whole "cunning and powerful" shtick. It's an inanimate object, I however have Free Will.
I'm now into my 59th month since my last drink. I would love to be able to make a living writing, but write I must.
All the emotional, psychological, and spiritual work I've done bleeds through my pen. If that's the only method available to me, I'll leave something of value behind for anyone who's interested. I feel less selfish in a sense.
I never would have linked MLMs to drinking/isolation. I just thought people were trying to make extra money. However, I did notice behavioral changes in a couple of friends trying to sell me stuff I didn't need. Fascinating and enlightening!
I'm so happy to see a "recovery based" outlet publish the obvious fact (to me, at least) that sobriety is personal and has absolutely nothing to do with the drinking habits of others. Even family. I've had to forgo helping people in their journey because of my "unorthodox " views on recovery. That hurts because my experience, my success in recovery, can be helpful to people. I want to be of help and it sometimes feels as if all I've been through is wasted, somehow selfish, in that I'm healthy and happy and others struggle.
My writing rebirth occurred three years into sobriety and it's been the greatest change of my life. The quiet, solitary hours around dawn, pen and paper in hand, provide me a vessel of self understanding and expression that alcohol enabled me to rob from myself. Note that I didn't say alcohol robbed me, I did. Alcohol was simply a tool. I know the whole "cunning and powerful" shtick. It's an inanimate object, I however have Free Will.
I'm now into my 59th month since my last drink. I would love to be able to make a living writing, but write I must.
All the emotional, psychological, and spiritual work I've done bleeds through my pen. If that's the only method available to me, I'll leave something of value behind for anyone who's interested. I feel less selfish in a sense.
Thanks for reading, Frank! Keep bleeding through the pen. We need your words!
Ah, but do you read The Archer's March? 😉