
The most beautiful thing about my job is watching people transform into miracles. This only happens when they hit rock bottom and quit digging the f#cking hole deeper. They are at the point of knowing if they don't stop they will die. Asking for help is the hardest thing for people like myself to do. There is a lot of shame that people mentally go through in this process.
I have witnessed this with a person this summer. On our long car ride to treatment, we talked about many things. The biggest thing was shame and guilt. Those are hard things to overcome in early recovery. As we talked about it, I could tell he was easing up. That's when he started to open up about the trauma he had been through. After dropping the person off I could see he was going to make a vailed effort to change their life.
Some time had passed and one day I got a call to go pick up this person. The change I saw in them was unbelievable. They were on their way to sober living. They had said thanks for the talk on the way down to treatment. The person finally realized they were powerless over substances and was ready to take the next steps of living life in recovery.
As they hung around the office, you could see so much greatness pouring out of them. They had got a job and continued to work on themselves. Today they have applied for a long-term sober living house. Knowing that only a few months in a short-term sober living house wasn't long enough.
Just to be able to help someone in this capacity in their life is a true blessing in my higher power. I'm so grateful I can change lives today instead of destroying them like I used to do. So if you know of someone needing help reach out. It just takes that one caring person to change someone's life forever.
Later,
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