Recovery for me began the moment I realized that a life without discovering what I am truly capable of was not a life I desired to continue living. One of my steps along the way was to write a list of my greatest fears and at the top of that list was to not be living the life I knew I was capable of living.

I’d spent my life looking for acceptance, and like some piece of a puzzle I hoped I would find the place in which I fit into the whole. Alcohol became a part of life at an early age and my liquid courage, my way to fit. A friend of mine asked me once “What was the feeling you got from your first drink?” And I replied “it felt like the first time I actually belonged”.

I could give a thousand reasons “why” I’ve struggled with addiction and would take to the bottle rather than deal with life but In truth there is no reason. And the acknowledgment of that would be one of the keys that would set me free.

So recovering from anything begins with a pivot away from story of the past and into making the choices that begin to create a different platform to live from. It takes rolling up your sleeves and getting present with the areas of your life that don’t work and having the courage and kindness for self to find a different way.

Gary Douglas once said to me “If you begin to live from what’s true for you, your life will take off in ways you cannot imagine”. This to me is what it’s all about.

What if you can create the life you’ve always dreamed of? What if all it takes is you recovering YOU?