Thank you for this share. Your story really resonates with me. I'm new here and has a story to tell. I've been sharing it for a couple of years with other buddies in private. We're a sober collective where the power of love has healed many.
Now I want to share it with the world cause the power of a collective, community, connection is totally undervalued in this egoistic, liquid modernity era. I'm hoping to build such a collective here on substack and work with others who feel the same way.
Right on, and well done for speaking up with your own experience. There's a huge need for community and discussion around changing relationship with addictive behavior that isn't necessarily AA, "recovery," or dogmatic "sober". I'd be happy to participate in something like that.
So good, man. So true. Especially the lifelong desire to not be ordinary, or not appear or feel ordinary. Sweet Jesus I relate. (And of course to the addiction stuff!)
Addiction as a pathway to normalcy. I get that Bowen. Nice angle and I love reading more about your journey to get there. I shared the mentality you mentioned for so long—I’m not normal—never wanted to be normal. And I got my wish 🙄
I too appreciate the peace and the ordinary joys and can feel them exquisitely now in my sobriety.
Good piece my friend. Now go lay down and take a damn nap with your puppy.
thanks so much for reading, and for your thoughts Andrew.
yeah my feeling is that the hunger for vice is part of our drive to explore, grow, search for new experiences, but/and exaggerated by modern culture. There's just so much more available to us now, it's almost impossible not to over-do it. The underlying impulse though, is the stuff of life!
Hi Bowen
Thank you for this share. Your story really resonates with me. I'm new here and has a story to tell. I've been sharing it for a couple of years with other buddies in private. We're a sober collective where the power of love has healed many.
Now I want to share it with the world cause the power of a collective, community, connection is totally undervalued in this egoistic, liquid modernity era. I'm hoping to build such a collective here on substack and work with others who feel the same way.
Love never fails 🌾
https://substack.com/@soberhorseman/note/c-104987791?r=5g8wzg
Right on, and well done for speaking up with your own experience. There's a huge need for community and discussion around changing relationship with addictive behavior that isn't necessarily AA, "recovery," or dogmatic "sober". I'd be happy to participate in something like that.
So good, man. So true. Especially the lifelong desire to not be ordinary, or not appear or feel ordinary. Sweet Jesus I relate. (And of course to the addiction stuff!)
Addiction as a pathway to normalcy. I get that Bowen. Nice angle and I love reading more about your journey to get there. I shared the mentality you mentioned for so long—I’m not normal—never wanted to be normal. And I got my wish 🙄
I too appreciate the peace and the ordinary joys and can feel them exquisitely now in my sobriety.
Good piece my friend. Now go lay down and take a damn nap with your puppy.
thanks so much for reading, and for your thoughts Andrew.
yeah my feeling is that the hunger for vice is part of our drive to explore, grow, search for new experiences, but/and exaggerated by modern culture. There's just so much more available to us now, it's almost impossible not to over-do it. The underlying impulse though, is the stuff of life!