Welcome to Recover Catholic... Our purpose is to help our fellow alcoholics and addicts. We welcome Mom's, Dad's, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, friends and colleagues of loved ones afflicted by the disease of alcoholism and addiction to join us here and those suffering in all stages of the disease.
To better understand and help those suffering and slowly dying in front of our eyes by this very cunning and baffling disease. To hopefully add some encouragement, peace, knowledge and fellowship to the alcoholic and addict. New posts will be available every Sunday afternoon.
It was graduation day of my 30 day inpatient program, in my second stint in rehab in the same year. There were no parties, celebrations, balloons. That's usually reserved for first time rehab graduates, which are accompanied by many well meaning comments and congratulations from family and friends that are happy for you and the fact "you are better now"...
It was 2009, and it was a good year, all things considered. I had a clear head, a clean, honest sense of pure optimism, and I felt good. I was 39 years old, divorced, a father of an 8 year old son, had made a fortune and lost a fortune, born Catholic, with a large Catholic Family and I was lost, I just didn't know it at the time.
I left that day with the clothes on my back, a few hundred dollars and against everyone's advice, a new younger girlfriend. What happened to everything? All was lost while I was in the throes of my addiction, it was a horrible tragedy to me at the time, but today it doesn't matter. It's rare that I think about any of it, I have been blessed by being released from all of it's burden.
There are many things that finally get alcoholics into a rehab or an honest recovery. Some say their family encouraged them to go, some say children, parents finally got through to them. In my case though, it's money that finally forced me into rehab. I ran out of it...
I invite you to join me as I tell a tale of recovery, faith, love lost, found and lost again, hope, success, failure, ridicule, self destruction and redemption. Subscribe via email, it's free or join us back here next Sunday.
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