I just built this blog today and will send a link to those whom have known email addresses. The goal is to get this blog address into everyone's hands before they leave the Lodge. This can turn into a powerful tool allowing us to stay in contact, meet new people in recovery and, most importantly, one more resource to help in our battle against addiction. The only counselor I am able to send this to is Mille so if she approves of this blog hopefully she can help get this into patients hands before they are discharged. I will also be attending the Alumni night on Friday, November 12th and will give this information out if I am allowed.
As for me I am in a halfway house in Cookeville, TN and everything is going very well. My wife still intends on getting a divorce....that really sucks. It is, after all, her choice and out of my control so whatever happens is the way it should be. I have made all my meetings and found a temporary sponsor at a group I seem to enjoy.
Crazy as it sounds I really miss The Lodge. The time I spent there went very fast and the saying "Accept life on life's terms" hits hard and fast once you are standing at the bottom of the mountain of crap you leave in your wake during active addiction. An old saying came to mind while thinking about all I have destroyed...How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time just like anything else. Every time I chip away at that mountain I will forge it into a shovel until eventually my shovel is so damned large and tough that the mountain won't stand a chance!
Fight the good fight, I'll be seeing ya!
Jim Jarman
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