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    1. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
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      Seven years ago, it was worse. I was out of the job and "underemployed," which turned out to be the perfect excuse to drink basically daily.

      2 replies 3 retweets 17 likes
    2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      It was bad. It took a friend buying me a flight, another friend loaning me money, and other friends letting me live with them to move to DC.

      1 reply 5 retweets 19 likes
    3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      Six years ago, I was still very much lost. I had started full-time at Metro Weekly, but was still drunk too often (& knew it had to end).

      1 reply 3 retweets 10 likes
    4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      I still was living with those friends, had very little money, and honestly didn't know how I was going to hold this new ~career~ together.

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      At the end of June 2010, almost six years ago, I did decide it had been enough and stopped drinking. That was just the first step of many.

      4 replies 5 retweets 28 likes
    6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      It was rough at first. Perhaps the toughest thing about getting sober, though, was realizing how much else I was avoiding with my drinking.

      3 replies 5 retweets 27 likes
    7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      And so, I started down a new path. As I continued onward, I found many things improving—besides not drinking. It was, truly, a new life.

      2 replies 4 retweets 22 likes
    8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      I had to work at it, yes, and I had to be willing to ask for help — two things that I really hadn't been willing to do previously.

      2 replies 3 retweets 19 likes
    9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      But then, by continuing to ask for help and continuing to try and do the next right thing, so much changed.

      2 replies 3 retweets 17 likes
    10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      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.

      2 replies 11 retweets 58 likes
      Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016

      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.

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        2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Addiction sucks, and things can feel hopeless, but they really, truly are not. Not at all. Ask for help. Reach out. Talk to people.

          2 replies 24 retweets 73 likes
        3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          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.

          1 reply 5 retweets 18 likes
        4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          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.

          5 replies 8 retweets 28 likes
        5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          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.

          1 reply 3 retweets 13 likes
        6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          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.

          3 replies 3 retweets 21 likes
        7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          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!

          1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
        8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          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.

          1 reply 3 retweets 7 likes
        9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          The point, for me, is that I now have the opportunity to make such changes if I'm willing to do so.

          2 replies 3 retweets 12 likes
        10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          In a relatively short time, my life is unrecognizable from the direction in which it was heading. For that change, I am so grateful.

          1 reply 7 retweets 29 likes
        11. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          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.

          2 replies 4 retweets 25 likes
        12. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          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 ...

          1 reply 3 retweets 13 likes
        13. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          ... 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.

          4 replies 3 retweets 30 likes
        14. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          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.

          1 reply 3 retweets 20 likes
        15. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          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.

          2 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
        16. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 19 May 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Night, all, and let us be good to one another.

          3 replies 10 retweets 38 likes
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        1. Cicely's Hat‏ @KimShoeCrzy 19 May 2016
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          ConGRATS! Do you still have butterflies?

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        1. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 19 May 2016
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          but for real this is poignant and I'm really happy for you

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        1. Demeralda‏ @demeralda 19 May 2016
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          America.... F yeah!

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