I've been asked so many times in the past 2 yrs how I've managed to stay clean, after a lot of thought I've come to the conclusion that I've gotten to where I am today by having people around me who love me.
When I was in a facility I was asked to invite people in for a day of counselling and to have them tell me how my using was affecting them, I invited my Father, Mother and Sister and I had asked my Nephew and Niece to write how my drug use was affecting them.
To this day I still think about the response I got from everyone, you see when your using life only circles around you and you don't really think of anyone else. I still remember my brother in law coming to visit me in the rehab center and I think he was so embarrassed and so was I.
My success to this day and only for today is an accumulation of the people that were in my life from the beginning and up to today, they are the ones that keep me strong and let me know that they care and are behind me all the way. Today their are more people in my life that I meet because I am living a clean life and they are the people that I interact with on a sometimes daily bases, from the people that I meet at the park with our dogs or more importantly the people at work who know my past to the people now that I share my life with like my teachers who don't judge me but are there as friend, new friends that I thank from the bottom of my heart for accepting me for what they see.
The answer to that question of how I stay clean is far more complicated than just a, well this is how I did it, It is all of you and a lot of me that keeps me going each day.
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thankyou for this story it is very helpful to me
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