Real Corner House Math

3 + 1 = 4
4 + 0 = 4
2 + 2 = 4
                  ....and so on and so on.  

What does this have to with learning to live a life free of addiction?

                 Maybe a LOT.   The point is -- there are many ways of saying the same thing.

Let me also say that this is in no way a bashing other drug treatment facilities.  But after having sought help numerous times to understand why I have behaved in a manner that seemed to contradict my desire to live,

I found relief at Corner House!

I fed my appetite for drugs in the streets of where ever I may have ran to in any attempts to escape myself.

I found rest from my running's at Corner House in Emporia, KS.

Corner House provided for me real street level recovery.  Real people with Real answers to Real questions that for that I am Real grateful.   Thank you to a staff that really knows their math.

He Who Writes
recovering addict

 

There is God

I lived in a world where nothing made sense.  Formed and deformed by addiction.  By the time real questions began to surface, I could find no real answers.  I found myself trapped and lost and at a loss as to how to be free.  Fear and depression were constant as I sank deeper and deeper into myself and into the knowledge that I was powerless to do anything about it.  I needed help!!  But who would purchase anything where everything is broken.  God will.  He did for me.  What He continues to do in, not only my life, but in every life that seeks freedom from themselves.  He fixes those found broken.  Anytime, anyone, anywhere that one breaths the words "Help me, Please, help me"   There is God. 

A Storm is Coming! A Storm is Coming!

In my life there have been many storms.  And many times I have been unprepared.  The result has been more than three decades of I.V. abuse.  Corner House has shown me how to build a shelter from the storms of my life that will surely continue to come.  Thank you, Corner House Staff!!! 

A sense of depression...

So I have a year and three months sober, when I first got sober I was quite angry at almost everything, the person driving in front of me, the lady on line taking too long, my parents for not calling me on time. Everything. Well that subsided, since then I have gotten over the anger (not 100% trust me), I can tell it's stablized. To tell you a litle about myself I am ambitious, I work hard every single day. Lately I have not been able to shake this funk that I am not where I am suppose to be, I am about to turn 32 years old and have accomplished very little. I have gotten a good job but feel like I am working on selling someone else's product, I have experienced working on my own product and I really like it, I am an Entrepreneur at heart but this entails working almost 12 hour days. It gets in the way of meetings which takes some time to drive to. I think about all of the time I spent drinking and wasted in a bottle and I get mad that I am this old and do not have a successful company of my own, I see and hear of friends that are doing quite well and I get envious and throw myself into a hole of depression. This in turn makes me want to isolate and I have to crawl my way out of the funk. So here I am, I'm waking up each day no longer hung over but feeling like I am not where I should be. Anyway, it's nice to get it out, any comments are welcome.

This is the first day of the end

I have so much running through my brain that I am feeling the overflow big time! These past few days have been just a jumble of brain farts that I forgot what day it was this morning. LOL!! I don’t know what to say or what to do….I don’t know what the real problem could be, for the most part, my life is sailing along smoothly at this moment. I have a mountain of chaos going on around me and I have one issue that has been plaguing me for awhile now but I don’t feel as though it is hindering me. I am just going to start today by writing what I can when the “feelings” start to arise…so this will be a multiple part blog entry I have a lot of feelings going on but too much stuff going on to stop and feel them. Now I know that I should not be burying them but I have been busy for the most part enjoying my time with my son before I find a “real job” and he starts preschool. So I have been pushing blogging, networking and life coaching to the back burner…I can not and will not do that anymore…I was having thoughts that what I was doing was keeping me in a cynical frame of mind or maybe holding me in my addiction…I was feeling as though I had nothing worthwhile to say….I was feeling negative…I was not feeling inspired Small wonders have been happening to me…basically certain events have thrown me a ladder and I am crawling out of this hole I have been hiding in…look out world, I have been sleeping and I have a lot of stuff to get off my chest before it consumes me and I fall down again. TO BE CONTINUED……………………………. Check back later for another entry after I go and play mom for a bit…what is it that those showbiz folk say, “The show or life must go on!” Staying positive…Staying strong….Staying in touch with my feelings….that is all I can do at this point

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