Too Cool For School

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Incredible story of digging deep and coming back Steve (and Chris too, you and I have talked about it before). It was sneaked in there in Steve's story but an awesome tip he had that I think is worth repeating is that you need to surround yourself with good people in your life. That includes friends and significant others. Bad ones can pull you down a really bad path that some people never recover from. I have also struggled with drinking in excess (understatement) in the past and I've talked about it here before, but a big part of that healing / moving on process I found is that you have to shed off certain social circles who enable you and who aren't supportive of you trying to better yourself. I "lost" one of my best friends down here because he couldn't "get" that I could hang out with him without having a drink. He was relentless and annoying about it every time we hung out for over two years, and I finally gave him an ultimatum that he couldn't deal with. There were other social circles I cut myself off from after high school and college because there was just no positivity coming out of them.

If anyone here is dealing with addiction and needs someone to talk to at any point, just DM me and we will keep it between us. I'm glad to offer wisdom / support having been completely sober now for almost 6 years.