❤ it's so good to see you. So proud of you for your sobriety and opening up your heart. Therapy is amazing. It has saved me. For sure. Trauma treatment is life changing. Congratulations on your degree! 🎉 Thank you for the updates! Glad you got you some! Lol no matter the awkwardness lol I'm glad you made this video!! Miss you! Keep on keeping on!
@@alicianave9541 long time no talk. How are you? Thank you for the kind words. I’m so glad you are still around. I didn’t even know you follow my page! Miss you girl. Hope all is well and you are happy.
So great to see this update... You know, it's funny, the previous update you did, posted 10 months ago, entirely passed me by. But just last week, I had the idea to check up on your channel and was shocked there was an upload I missed... If you remember, both you and I have a similar quit-date, mine is the 12th of July 2019. I watched you from the early days... Maybe from about eight to ten months in? I came upon your vid and dropped you a comment and you were so nice in your reply. Anyway, after all this time, I've maintained my freedom from that substance also. My use spanned 5 years and I'm about 10 years younger than you, but starting from around the four-and-a-half year point in recovery, I really started excelling again on a number of fronts, and the remaining limitations related to my former meth use faded and faded to far less of an obstacle. Now at the 5 year, it seems that I've secured a very thorough and fortunate recovery. Although I'm not put together entirely at all times, I am appreciably stable, I have security within myself, my mood and my confidence are up, I feel calm, I feel attractive, I'm interested in things, and for the most part, I am actually delivering those who I care about - the love they need from me. I really respect and honour your path, and your commitment to the resolve. Much praise! What would be of us now if we kept using? That's a scary thought. Especially because it's so evident substance-dependability for many years now has been an unmitigated disaster. But we got our kicks in just in time and outsmarted that 🖤
@@borntobone this is an amazing update. Yes i remember talking with you on previous videos. It’s so amazing to hear other people’s stories of recovery. It’s true that it takes years to start to feel really healed. I think all the time about how far I’ve come but also how much conscious work it takes to progress. It really takes commitment to an intentional life style even when that life doesn’t feel exactly right. Even now I struggle with knowing if I’m doing the “right” thing. School is so hard so of course it brings out the quitter in me. But i just keep saying ok make it through this week. And i take it in chunks like that. Do you go to NA or AA or any of the A’s to help you? What are you doing to maintain? Like i said in the video i don’t really do NA anymore but I still do therapy and meds. I’m so grateful to be free of meth. I feel like I got out just in time because now all the meth is cut with Fentanyl. So i would have ended up with more addiction if I had stayed in the game. It’s amazing you got clean in your 30s. That’s hard for many people because they feel like they have so much time left. From my work in social work I see that most of the people who get clean and stay clean tend to be over 40. Not always but it’s common. But also i see that people who are over 60 don’t do well w getting clean. They seem to set in their ways. I mean it does happen but it’s less common. Thank you so much for your beautiful comment and the update on your life. So happy for you! Keep going!!! #solidarity
Heck ya I just hit over 5 years as well I remember watching your vids when I first got off opiates and meth good work! Never quit never fail! I understand about the kids, I have 4 older children I miss a lot, but they grow and have their live now 😢 😢 I am lucky to have one young one left at home!
@@addictionrecoverylife i love hearing this! It is so hard when the kids move away. But yes they are all on their own life adventures. Huge congratulations on 5 years!!! It’s a major achievement
I'm so happy to see you're doing well! Congrats to J and B, they are some incredible young people, best wishes especially to B and congrats on they're college journey! I'm so proud of you and I appreciate your honest stories, it helps me keep it real with me. ❤
@@lolliehannigan4839 awwww thank you. I never know if it’s worth making the videos so i really appreciate the feedback. J and B are all growed up now and it’s so weird. But I’m so proud of them and their journeys.
❤ it's so good to see you. So proud of you for your sobriety and opening up your heart. Therapy is amazing. It has saved me. For sure. Trauma treatment is life changing. Congratulations on your degree! 🎉 Thank you for the updates!
Glad you got you some! Lol no matter the awkwardness lol I'm glad you made this video!! Miss you! Keep on keeping on!
@@alicianave9541 long time no talk. How are you? Thank you for the kind words. I’m so glad you are still around. I didn’t even know you follow my page! Miss you girl. Hope all is well and you are happy.
So great to see this update... You know, it's funny, the previous update you did, posted 10 months ago, entirely passed me by. But just last week, I had the idea to check up on your channel and was shocked there was an upload I missed...
If you remember, both you and I have a similar quit-date, mine is the 12th of July 2019. I watched you from the early days... Maybe from about eight to ten months in? I came upon your vid and dropped you a comment and you were so nice in your reply. Anyway, after all this time, I've maintained my freedom from that substance also.
My use spanned 5 years and I'm about 10 years younger than you, but starting from around the four-and-a-half year point in recovery, I really started excelling again on a number of fronts, and the remaining limitations related to my former meth use faded and faded to far less of an obstacle. Now at the 5 year, it seems that I've secured a very thorough and fortunate recovery. Although I'm not put together entirely at all times, I am appreciably stable, I have security within myself, my mood and my confidence are up, I feel calm, I feel attractive, I'm interested in things, and for the most part, I am actually delivering those who I care about - the love they need from me.
I really respect and honour your path, and your commitment to the resolve. Much praise! What would be of us now if we kept using? That's a scary thought. Especially because it's so evident substance-dependability for many years now has been an unmitigated disaster. But we got our kicks in just in time and outsmarted that 🖤
@@borntobone this is an amazing update. Yes i remember talking with you on previous videos. It’s so amazing to hear other people’s stories of recovery. It’s true that it takes years to start to feel really healed. I think all the time about how far I’ve come but also how much conscious work it takes to progress. It really takes commitment to an intentional life style even when that life doesn’t feel exactly right. Even now I struggle with knowing if I’m doing the “right” thing. School is so hard so of course it brings out the quitter in me. But i just keep saying ok make it through this week. And i take it in chunks like that.
Do you go to NA or AA or any of the A’s to help you? What are you doing to maintain? Like i said in the video i don’t really do NA anymore but I still do therapy and meds.
I’m so grateful to be free of meth. I feel like I got out just in time because now all the meth is cut with Fentanyl. So i would have ended up with more addiction if I had stayed in the game.
It’s amazing you got clean in your 30s. That’s hard for many people because they feel like they have so much time left. From my work in social work I see that most of the people who get clean and stay clean tend to be over 40. Not always but it’s common. But also i see that people who are over 60 don’t do well w getting clean. They seem to set in their ways. I mean it does happen but it’s less common.
Thank you so much for your beautiful comment and the update on your life. So happy for you! Keep going!!! #solidarity
Heck ya I just hit over 5 years as well I remember watching your vids when I first got off opiates and meth good work! Never quit never fail! I understand about the kids, I have 4 older children I miss a lot, but they grow and have their live now 😢 😢 I am lucky to have one young one left at home!
@@addictionrecoverylife i love hearing this! It is so hard when the kids move away. But yes they are all on their own life adventures. Huge congratulations on 5 years!!! It’s a major achievement
I'm so happy to see you're doing well! Congrats to J and B, they are some incredible young people, best wishes especially to B and congrats on they're college journey! I'm so proud of you and I appreciate your honest stories, it helps me keep it real with me. ❤
@@lolliehannigan4839 awwww thank you. I never know if it’s worth making the videos so i really appreciate the feedback. J and B are all growed up now and it’s so weird. But I’m so proud of them and their journeys.
@@SerastarMoon I think of you often, I'm always glad for an update :)