Wednesday, October 8, 2008

A THANKSGIVING GIFT

When are you going to realize that all you're doing when using is masking the pain you feel inside. When I was in rehab they had a bunch of different exercises to do. My group of men had about 12 people. Each time they got us easing into being able to talk about our feelings as a group and it got easier each time. My or our councellor was a man also.
Do you know what? each and every one of us have been hardened by the life we were living but in that group you would have never known it. I told my story, they told theirs and we became a family. I loved those guys, I really did. I have not seen any of them for a long time now because we moved on but their always on my mind. The point is, REHAB IS NOT SCARY....
Go and find yourself again...please....
I asked my girlfriends family over for Thanksgiving dinner, our first, and its escalated to my family now and we're at 16 people and the funny thing is, i'm the cook!!!!!
I am so nervous but what a difference to where I was 3 yrs ago.
You can have this too. Sixty days is all you need to start a new life.
Sixty days of peace and quiet, no chaos.
What else do you need for me to say to convince you that you should go to a centre.
Ok as my drug councellor said to me,,,if you don't need to go then I will make an appoint. for you in two weeks and if you haven't used then you don't need to go. I'll give you the same test...for me I was already looking for the nearest payphone so I could make an order as soon as I left.
He put me in for a centre after our next meeting!!!
Give yourself and your family a reason to be thankful this year and take that step.
Ask me if you need some help and I promise I will do anything I can to help. I know if you're on the street that you probably won't be reading this but to the people that are, you must have people that you love that need help so ask....lets all join together and help the people that just need some help to get started... I believe in you, believe in them too.

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