After a bout with Shingles, I am in recovery and back on track! In the interest of preserving my sobriety, I steered clear of the pain meds and was reminded how important it is that we, addicts in recovery, stay healthy so that we aren’t faced with the possibility of needing pain medicine in the first place. Just sayin! Shingles is one of the most painful and miserable things I’ve ever had to go through…and I’ve detoxed off of heroin in jail, so…yeah…
As stated in a recent Substack post, my beliefs are starting to congeal and while I’m sure i will still research other philosophies and ways of thinking, I find myself leaning toward Hermeticism and Gnosticism. These are not religions, they are philosophies and ways of viewing reality. I do believe that we are in some sort of simulation be it spiritual or otherwise. I have found myself thinking that this whole thing is layers upon layers deep, so maybe it’s some spiritual and some technological mixed in deeper down the spiral. Anyway, this episode begins my unraveling of all that.
Also, recent deaths in the family have caused me to do a lot of reflecting on relationships. Particularly, those relationships that our active addiction all but destroyed. Now that we are in recovery and living sober, we can now go and repair and restore those relationships. We may have to give our loved ones time to come around, though. Remember, for years they watched us go down the spiral of addiction. All the lies and everything else we did to lose trust don’t just go away because we went to rehab and got sober. Let’s do everything we can to show that we are dead serious about our recovery and so very sorry for the damage we caused while in active addiction and, now that we are sober once and for all, we are focused on getting our lives back on track and repairing relationships. We have to do it before it is too late.
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