2021 !

🥳 Hello friends !

I want to say thank you to everyone who has read my blog over the past year! It has close to 4,000 views which is pretty cool !

January 14, I get the honor and privilege, to celebrate 3 and a half years sober ! I never thought I could make it 3 minutes, let alone be in a position to possibly help someone else by writing an honest blog about my life. I don’t take it lightly, and I appreciate my friends and even strangers, taking the time out of their lives to read all of this.

It still amazes me when people reach out to ask for advice, or to say a few kind words.

I want to say the biggest catapult for change, for me at least, was to be completely honest and vulnerable, and to take responsibility. I have noticed, the people who don’t change are the ones who put blame on others, or blame situations repeatedly. The second I took responsibility for my life, that’s when the opportunity to change myself came. I took that opportunity and ran with it, and never looked back. I only look back to see my progress, and that’s the only reason you should.

This past year has been bad for substance abuse and domestic violence. Folks who have issues were quarantined and left with no resources, and lacked the tools to cope. It’s a very sad situation and I’m hopeful for this new year.

Coping skills are one of the most important tools I have in recovery. But the number one thing I did, was completely change my life where I didn’t even want to use drugs to cope. Drugs do not even fit into the equation here. There’s no way I’m speeding up the end of my life. I love it way too much, and I have an obligation and responsibility to be a mother to my kids, and I am all they have.

Watching Mary blossom and Maxx say his first words gives me a natural high, nothing can beat this life, and it’s totally organic. No synthetic anything here. So Happy New Year!

Prayers for the still sick and suffering, and for the souls we have lost due to Covid 19 and addiction.

Thank you for reading.