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‘Do you have a problem with drugs and alcohol, so did I…’
‘When I crashed into the rooms of Cocaine Anonymous at 25 years old, I was overcome with the sensation that life had ended. 3.5 years of sobriety later, I can see this conclusion was a truthful one, just not in the way I initially perceived.
For a long time “Living” had been a difficult, arduous, and painful process. Toward the end of my childhood I found drugs, and although consequences progressed drastically from the ages of 11 to 25, I’ve always had an abnormal reaction to mind altering substances in the bodily and mental sense.
Flash forward to the end of active addiction, everything had been stripped away from me. Isolated, cold, frightened, wounded, I found myself in a situation where I couldn’t continue this way of living, but I was also unable to stop. This position is unique to those who are experiencing powerlessness and unmanageability.
Since being introduced to a beautiful Fellowship, a loving Power, and a program of action providing the solution to addiction, I’ve been given a full, beautiful life that gives me freedom in the face of grief, pain, trauma, and challenge whilst also being able to experience joy, love, expression, peace, and contentment.
I am extremely grateful to have been given this new way of life so young.’
25- year-old Izaak was right, life had ended. The life of addiction, harm, carnage, and chaos died a quiet death inside my flat during March 2022, and something infinitely more powerful has emerged from that tomb.
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