Sick and tired of being sick and tired
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Sick and tired of being sick and tired
I was just finally sick and tired of being sick and tired. So here is my story and why I know any who wants it, can get it.
Born and raised in a small town an hour north of Detroit and born to two alcoholic parents.. Played hockey my entire childhood. Unfortunately, this gave sick and twisted indivuals time to abuse me, and they did so for over 10 years and to top it off, they did this almost daily to me. My hockey arena was the safe place and I would go at any chance.
In my teen years I turned to isolation and marijuana on a daily basis. Hung with the bad people, to make myself feel better. Did the wrong things in life to make my life a living hell, by lying, running, and never being me. I didn't like me, due to the abuse so I got high to make that feeling go away. Both of my parents drank excessively and were never around and this just allowed me to up my intake of drugs.
Now when I was about 20 I decided to start drinking* (My father would get sober when I was 25). Yeah well, this lead me to being a complete alcoholic within a year and then turning into a drug addict as well, as I started to snort cocaine in large amounts. From age 21-34, it didn't matter what I did to stop and didn't matter who wanted me to stop, but I couldn't. I was consuming a 1,000.00 a week in cocaine and always drunk. I did this and held great jobs that paid me way more than I was worth. At my peak of using I slept under my desk, and had employees completely on board to cover up for me.
June 27th 2009, I was sick and tired of being sick and tired and walked into a AA club in Daytona Beach. My father had built this club and was 11 years sober when he passed away from lung cancer. On this day, I had had enough. I knew there was a better way of life and someone had something planned for me. It took me about 6 months to come to believe that a power greater than myself could actually do something for me. Since the day I got sober, I've been able to build a few succsessful companies. My main employee pool comes from the local transistional housing programs. Us alcoholics/addicts shouldn't be shunned, so I go out and actively look for more of us and give them a chance at a job and to get back up when they are down. So far I've been able to touch the lives of more than 32 alcoholic/addicts.
Someone once told me that praying is speaking to god, and meditating is listening to god. I've taken that and practice it everyday in my life. Today I couldn't be more grateful to the life I've been blessed with. In all of this I've been blessed to have a wife who is my best friend and 2 kids that I couldn't be more proud to be a dad of!
Jeff A.
Born and raised in a small town an hour north of Detroit and born to two alcoholic parents.. Played hockey my entire childhood. Unfortunately, this gave sick and twisted indivuals time to abuse me, and they did so for over 10 years and to top it off, they did this almost daily to me. My hockey arena was the safe place and I would go at any chance.
In my teen years I turned to isolation and marijuana on a daily basis. Hung with the bad people, to make myself feel better. Did the wrong things in life to make my life a living hell, by lying, running, and never being me. I didn't like me, due to the abuse so I got high to make that feeling go away. Both of my parents drank excessively and were never around and this just allowed me to up my intake of drugs.
Now when I was about 20 I decided to start drinking* (My father would get sober when I was 25). Yeah well, this lead me to being a complete alcoholic within a year and then turning into a drug addict as well, as I started to snort cocaine in large amounts. From age 21-34, it didn't matter what I did to stop and didn't matter who wanted me to stop, but I couldn't. I was consuming a 1,000.00 a week in cocaine and always drunk. I did this and held great jobs that paid me way more than I was worth. At my peak of using I slept under my desk, and had employees completely on board to cover up for me.
June 27th 2009, I was sick and tired of being sick and tired and walked into a AA club in Daytona Beach. My father had built this club and was 11 years sober when he passed away from lung cancer. On this day, I had had enough. I knew there was a better way of life and someone had something planned for me. It took me about 6 months to come to believe that a power greater than myself could actually do something for me. Since the day I got sober, I've been able to build a few succsessful companies. My main employee pool comes from the local transistional housing programs. Us alcoholics/addicts shouldn't be shunned, so I go out and actively look for more of us and give them a chance at a job and to get back up when they are down. So far I've been able to touch the lives of more than 32 alcoholic/addicts.
Someone once told me that praying is speaking to god, and meditating is listening to god. I've taken that and practice it everyday in my life. Today I couldn't be more grateful to the life I've been blessed with. In all of this I've been blessed to have a wife who is my best friend and 2 kids that I couldn't be more proud to be a dad of!
Jeff A.
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I do agree it's important to listen to your child's music however. Some kids are the type to really get into the lyrics and buy into what the artists are saying - and some other types of kids it just doesn't seem to phase them because it's the music that gets their attention not the lyrics. Be in tune with your children well enough to know which type child(ren) is (are).
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"A free pass when it comes to the content of their work" is called freedom of speech. People can buy and produce whatever music they want, about whatever they want. Your kids are going to listen to what they want to listen to. If your kids take everything they listen to literally and take drugs or whatever because of a song, that's more of a commentary on your parenting skills than anything else.
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Jane
Jane
This is such a great story. You turned your life around in such a meaningful way and it's amazing that you are also able to help those that have been affected by the same disese of addiction as you have. Really inspirational!
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