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One Day at a Time

I remember so vividly sitting in meetings, yes I follow a 12 Step program, listening to people share and talk about being 20 years sober and think ‘How am I ever going to get to that?’ and ‘That’s a lot of hard work’. I really was not sure that I was cut out to be sober. I was so used to living in the ADHD world of being excited by the new, of the quick win, and achieving things quickly, that I really did not have the life experience, the data, to give me any confidence that I would be able to stick it out. And to make matters worse after starting my journey I quickly relapsed. Leaving me feeling like I had proof that I was doomed to fail! But hindsight is an amazing teacher. I can see now that back then I was still trying to live my life thinking that it was all about the destination. Thinking that the 12 Steps were something that I had to complete, as quickly as possible. To prove to the world, to prove to me, that I was a good person and that I was sober. But living my life that way...
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There is another way!

You have found your way to my first blog post. I'm not sure if it is the right thing to offer congratulations or to extend the hand of sympathy and understanding. I say that because if you are here you are likely to have been directly or indirectly affected by addiction, poor mental health, ADHD, or a combination of all of them. 


I have been, and continue to be affected by all three. Directly. Every day. So if this is the case for you, because you are the person who is struggling with addiction, poor mental health, ADHD, or you are just a concerned friend or relative, please hear that I see you, I feel your pain, your anguish and know that you are not alone! And probably, most importantly, THERE IS ANOTHER WAY!


I am pleased to say that while I am still affected by all of the above, the effects aren't solely negative any more. Because I have found ANOTHER WAY. And I want to share it with you all. Now I do not profess to have found a magic cure, and this OTHER WAY is not unique, but I hope that you find some STRENGTH, HOPE and JOY from what I write. I hope that you find some identification through these posts and maybe even find some inspiration that may help support you, or the ones you love, on their own recovery journey.


Throughout the blog series I aim to give you an ‘all access’ pass to my personal recovery journey, where I will share how I have approached the mountain of addiction, the web of ADHD and the curse of poor mental health. Not because I think I am better than anyone else. Not because I feel I have done something special. But because I remember the moment that I felt hopeless. Completely and utterly without hope. Where I wished that there was another way, but I had no knowledge of or access to ‘it’. Where I truly felt that the world would be a better place without me in it. Where I felt death was absolutely the only alternative and only solution to the place where I was in.


What I can say with 100% conviction is that THERE IS ANOTHER WAY! And now that I am living ‘it’, life gets better every single day. It is like I am seeing the world in colour for the first time. Noticing things that have always been there, but have been out of the reach of my vision. Do not get me wrong, noticing these things brings its own sense of pain, remorse and regret. For the moments lost. The neglected relationships. But through living life ANOTHER WAY I am confident in my ability to make amends and reinvigorate these things in a way that will make them more fantasmagorical than they ever could have been.


So as well as anecdotes, reflections and stories, I will also be sharing the actionable steps that I have taken on my road to recovery. Will they work for all of you reading this? Most probably not! But I sincerely hope that they act as a piece of concrete evidence that THERE IS ANOTHER WAY. And that you too can live a life that is free from active addiction, where mental health is considered as stable as every other aspect of your physical health and ADHD no longer exists as a destructive force in your life.


If you are looking for ANOTHER WAY, either for yourself, or for someone you love, then read on! Join our mailing list and subscribe. Because your life is not doomed! It is not destined to fail! It can be freer from pain and suffering because THERE IS ANOTHER WAY!

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