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Advocacy has often resulted from a scramble to create something independent and responsive to people’s needs. In other words it has been reactive rather than organised. It has evolved into a movement that is now recognised as a valuable commodity by individuals who use it, services and government alike.
I’ve had a shitty day today. Then I remembered to take my friend’s advice! I have to learn to take the rough with the smooth; the tears with the laughter; the richness with the poverty. That’s what being sober is about.
This is something i wrote when I was six months free from active addiction. As I re-read it now, I see lots of questions that I believe come from fear of uncertainty. Not knowing who I was, and not having discovered my identity in recovery at that time.
And as for choice what is all that about? Am I choosing to sit here and be some kind of confused mad woman who doesn’t even know herself any more? Or should I leap up and down and scream or calmly start writing a plan of action?
It’s not what happens to us that gets us into trouble; it’s how we react to what’s happening to us. In our drinking days our reactions would be ‘black or white’ – we’d go to that ‘catastrophe thinking’ mode where the things that had happened to us would be the worst ever.
Personal life solid. Always room for improvement, but I stay blessed and continue to trudge the road of happy destiny one day at a time. Convention season approaches but before I get into it Monday of next week I’m off to my place of recovery, Weymouth, Dorset for three days.
I have been in a really good place. Serenity my sponsor calls it. Things are going well. I’ve got two interviews this week for voluntary work. One with Doncaster DIP and one with the Doncaster drug strategy unit. So fingers crossed.
In possibly one of the most divisive interviews given within the recovery community in the UK, Joe Gerstein, described as the founder of SMART Recovery, talks to Guardian journalist Denis Campbell in an article published on 10th March 2010
And yes this is another step on my journey and my own recovery. It still amazes me how I have had so many lovely supportive e-mails and yes, challenging comments, which have been good to think through.
Just a brief note about this up and coming showing. We now have a screening confirmed with Hebden Bridge Picture House as part of Bradford International Film Festival. Hope anyone who is local gets a chance to see it.
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