TweetCONGRATS Dzone! Proud of you and sure hope you are of yourself too? I look forward to seeing you in a TED talk a dmaybe I will join you in a TED talk,lol. Keep on doing what you are doing and give yourself a pat and a hug!
Tweet9 years without a drink. 9 years without not ever once wanting one. 9 years ago I was gone. I was history. I was about to become a memory.
I couldnt fucking stop. I went to rehab. I went to a Betty Ford type in patient center. Nothing worked. Religion failed. Friends intervened, it failed. I was about dead. I was in the hospital over 12 times. Doctors in the ER and hospital would tell me "If you dont stop drinking, you will die" I tried and couldnt stop and I kept trying and nothing worked.
When I finally stopped drinking I was over half a million in debt, I had a $150,000 IRS tax lien on my house which was in foreclosure and scheduled every month for sale at the courthouse. My business was basically shut down. I had almost no income. I was alone, I had nobody to talk to. I had my mom to call and talk to and that was it. She was a rock in the middle of my personal hell. I had friends but nobody I wanted to burden with my problems. Trust me, people dont want to hear about your problems anyway. I had no wife, no kids and basically no family. You cant begin to imagine the loneliness, the darkness and the heartache.
Now I have groups ask me to come and talk to their groups to tell them how I overcame alcoholism. I have spoken publicly at many venues now and I dont hesitate to tell my story because I know that there might be one person who can hang on to the hope of my story and can save their own life.
Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson says that alcohol literally wipes out 5-10% of the human population.
People always ask me "How did you stop drinking?" It had nothing to do with religion, I promise you that. Because anything that I was seeking outside of my own self, only weakened me and made things get worse. I tried to be a good christian and it didnt get me off alcohol. If I thought god, or people or a relationship would somehow help me, It just made me outer dependent and kept me helpless. It was only after I stopped looking outside of myself for solutions and began to trust my own ability to do it , my own mind to create, that I was finally set free. I set some big goals in that last month in the hospital. 28 days in a hospital bed because of something you did to yourself gives you a lot of time to reflect and change your life. Thats what I did in June of 2008 and Ive never looked back and I went from the bedrock of pain and desolation and now I have rebuilt everything and business is booming and life is hellatiously good. Some days I cant even believe it happened. It really did. Wow.
June 2018 will be my 10 year anniversary. OMG Its been an amazing journey
TweetCONGRATS Dzone! Proud of you and sure hope you are of yourself too? I look forward to seeing you in a TED talk a dmaybe I will join you in a TED talk,lol. Keep on doing what you are doing and give yourself a pat and a hug!
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TweetI remember the day after I got out of the hospital and I had a new puppy and an IRS agent showed up at my business and flashed her badge, just like in a movie. Asked "Why arent you paying your taxes?" I thought I was going to jail. Alcohol . It will destroy everything and take everything you have. I was struggling to rebuild my business and put food on the table. My house was being foreclosed and I was looking for a cheap apartment to move to just to survive.
Would you believe that IRS agent fell in love with my puppy and ended up on the ground with him rubbing his belly and hugging my puppy??? Yes, she became my buddy and sat there and listened to me and gave me advice and it was fucking surreal.
TweetGreat job D ! Brother that is really good news to hear as well as very inspiring. Congrats and a big hug !
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TweetThank you ty ty ty That means a lot baby1. Yep, I honestly saying beating alcoholism was the biggest accomplishment of my life. Bigger than college or anything. Because it was life or death and so many of my friends died. I am so grateful , especially having my mom still alive to see me save my life right before she died meant everything. It was good to come on this board at the tail end of my 7 year binge. It gave me a sense of community.
Tweetcongrats on the huge accomplishment dzone. you are a good man and should hold your chest and head up high. you have a hell of a success story to be proud of.
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TweetGreat Job Dzone
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TweetAwesome, great job! Must feel so liberating....
TweetCongrats brotha! I have been there with alcohol and then some.
Tweetcongrats brother. I have not really mentioned it but my wife is an alcoholic and she is clean now after $40 grand in rehab and $800 a month vivitrol shots. almost a year............
I say that to say how hard it was for her. (and you I assume) It is more than just "awwww just stop drinking" it got her and strangled her. I am happy for you and wish you many years of sobriety
TweetCongrats brotha!! It's awesome that you've been able to overcome all of that and persevere!! You have so much to be proud of brother. Great job!
TweetGood job!!!
TweetGreat job buddy!
TweetIt is very easy to show all the gains we make in BB or PL here on this site but what really makes us the family that we are is that we can share our darkest times in our lives and yet everyone is still supportive and encouraging of us in our most personal struggles. We all have very compelling stories that would make any normal human give up. We all have the same common goal, "not to be common'.
Dzone, You made it through and have a very bright future helping others how to overcome their obstacles.