The Candid Conversation

Photo by  Danielle MacInnes  on  Unsplash The moment you take your first actual step towards sobriety is the moment you save your life. It will not be easy, but you will get there. Backstory Before you read on, I want you to know some of my backstory and why I want to help. In less than two months, I will be two years sober; before that was a cringe-worthy four to five years of drug abuse and sadness. Cringe-worthy is precisely the term to describe that part of my life because I was not acting like my true self. Drugs change you; whether you want to consider those decisions as good because they molded your newfound personality and intelligence, or you think of them as bad because you almost killed yourself, whichever way you want to remember your addiction, it changed you. And, in the second you took action on your decision to get clean, YOU changed you. No one else can make that choice for you, so be proud of yourself. I do not even rememb...