Well, here it is: A look back from eight years ago to this week —> https://instagram.com/p/BFnXBZJKFou/ pic.twitter.com/KIpqYUx5Tc
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This week, I spent the afternoon in the Roosevelt Room of the White House and nearly a half-hour interviewing the President of the U.S.
If you would have told the me of May 2008, May 2009, or May 2010 that that could happen, I wouldn't have been able to see how.
Addiction sucks, and things can feel hopeless, but they really, truly are not. Not at all. Ask for help. Reach out. Talk to people.
It's still not always easy for me. But, it's less about drinking than about all those other things I learned about myself when I got sober.
That's my challenge today, to keep being willing to ask for help when I need it, to keep being willing to work to improve my life.
That's the whole fitness kick I've been on since last March. It took 'til then for me finally to be willing to work consistently on that.
My focus on it might seem, whatever, but working out has been a big mental health boost for me. Some days I work out b/c I know I need it.
I get depressed. Now that I don't just go black myself out, I eventually tried to find a ~healthy way~ to deal. Working out & running works!
It works for me, that is. In any event, that's just an example that I think of of something ~other than drinking~ that I've changed since.
The point, for me, is that I now have the opportunity to make such changes if I'm willing to do so.
In a relatively short time, my life is unrecognizable from the direction in which it was heading. For that change, I am so grateful.
I am also grateful for all of you. It truly inspires me to be able to share w/ so many folks ~why~ I'm grateful for weeks like this one.
Yes, interviewing the president is cool, and, yes, I loved being able to talk about SCOTUS w POTUS, but the fact that I am able to be ...
... there at all — the fact that I'm not dead or in jail or destitute — is why I was incredibly, almost disbelievingly grateful to be there.
So, yeah. It's been a good week. But, that's mainly so for me because of the path that I've traveled to get there.
And that path that I'll continue on when I wake up in the morning. For now, y'all are wonderful — and I'm off to bed.
Night, all, and let us be good to one another.
amen brother.
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