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Last Sunday, I had the pleasure of attending the Bad Bunny concert.😈😈🐰🎶🇵🇷
Since moving to Puerto Rico in November of 21, Bad Bunny has been a part of the cultural zeitgeist; his music blaring in bars, thumping from the stereos of cars driving by, and inevitably playing from one or more boomboxes at any popular beaches.
🎶🌅✨️🏝🐰😈🐰 🇵🇷🎶🏝
I'm far from his number one fan, but I wanted to be able to share in this cultural experience. He's become something of a folk hero, especially with his latest album honoring traditional salsa roots as well as island culture and history. He also chose to host his entire tour in Puerto Rico as a residency to bring more economic opportunity to locals. He fittingly titled his tour, "No me quiero ir de aquí ", or, in english, I don't want to leave here.
And, while I'm still far from fluent in Spanish, that's a phrase I do know and fully identify with. 😍🏝✨️🌅🇵🇷🌿

12 years ago today, I put myself in treatment for alcoholism. In hindsight, I recognize this as one of the best decisions I ever made in my life. And, it's very possible I might not have had much more life to live had I kept going on my way. I didn't know what type of recovery I was looking for, I just knew I was sick and tired of being sick and tired.
With the support of amazing staff at Valley Hope as well as the support of my fellow struggling addicts and alcoholics, I gained new humility and perspective. I left treatment directly into a sober living house, which was absolutely catalytic to my long-term recovery. I ended up becoming house manager of 31st Day Sober House for 7 years, right up until I moved to Puerto Rico in 2021. Living in and managing that house helped create shared community on my recovery journey as well as accountability, and I got DEEPLY involved in other recovery communities, taking on a plethora of different service commitments statewide.
In addition to taking on new engagements in recovery, I also began picking up new healthy hobbies like acro yoga. Filling my time with rewarding activities and engagements continues to be catalytic to my long-term recovery. I believe that if I am living a boring, monotonous, unappealing life sober, my addict tendencies will be itching to break-out and dice-roll for some "fun" AKA chaos.
12 years of not drinking has not made me impervious to mistakes or my share of misery, but I KNOW, with conviction, that picking up a drink will only make my situations worse. And I'm committed to staying sober because it's not just me that benefits, I also get to see the quality of all my relationships flourish as well. 😊✨️🫂💜💙🌿

If you've ever questioned your own sobriety journey, know that you have the potential to pursue that path, and that there are a BOUNTY of resources to support you on that endeavor (me being one of them😊).
And if nobody else tells you today, I love you & you are worth loving!
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**pics from the week before treatment ( I still don't know how I got that scar, but I know I was wasted drunk), and me today, enjoying the new life I'm cultivating