Hermetic Addict and Relationship Recovery
06/01/24 • 34 min
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After a bout with Shingles, I am in recovery and back on track! In the interest of preserving my sobriety, I steered clear of the pain meds and was reminded how important it is that we, addicts in recovery, stay healthy so that we aren’t faced with the possibility of needing pain medicine in the first place. Just sayin! Shingles is one of the most painful and miserable things I’ve ever had to go through...and I’ve detoxed off of heroin in jail, so...yeah...
As stated in a recent Substack post, my beliefs are starting to congeal and while I’m sure i will still research other philosophies and ways of thinking, I find myself leaning toward Hermeticism and Gnosticism. These are not religions, they are philosophies and ways of viewing reality. I do believe that we are in some sort of simulation be it spiritual or otherwise. I have found myself thinking that this whole thing is layers upon layers deep, so maybe it’s some spiritual and some technological mixed in deeper down the spiral. Anyway, this episode begins my unraveling of all that.
Also, recent deaths in the family have caused me to do a lot of reflecting on relationships. Particularly, those relationships that our active addiction all but destroyed. Now that we are in recovery and living sober, we can now go and repair and restore those relationships. We may have to give our loved ones time to come around, though. Remember, for years they watched us go down the spiral of addiction. All the lies and everything else we did to lose trust don’t just go away because we went to rehab and got sober. Let’s do everything we can to show that we are dead serious about our recovery and so very sorry for the damage we caused while in active addiction and, now that we are sober once and for all, we are focused on getting our lives back on track and repairing relationships. We have to do it before it is too late.
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After a bout with Shingles, I am in recovery and back on track! In the interest of preserving my sobriety, I steered clear of the pain meds and was reminded how important it is that we, addicts in recovery, stay healthy so that we aren’t faced with the possibility of needing pain medicine in the first place. Just sayin! Shingles is one of the most painful and miserable things I’ve ever had to go through...and I’ve detoxed off of heroin in jail, so...yeah...
As stated in a recent Substack post, my beliefs are starting to congeal and while I’m sure i will still research other philosophies and ways of thinking, I find myself leaning toward Hermeticism and Gnosticism. These are not religions, they are philosophies and ways of viewing reality. I do believe that we are in some sort of simulation be it spiritual or otherwise. I have found myself thinking that this whole thing is layers upon layers deep, so maybe it’s some spiritual and some technological mixed in deeper down the spiral. Anyway, this episode begins my unraveling of all that.
Also, recent deaths in the family have caused me to do a lot of reflecting on relationships. Particularly, those relationships that our active addiction all but destroyed. Now that we are in recovery and living sober, we can now go and repair and restore those relationships. We may have to give our loved ones time to come around, though. Remember, for years they watched us go down the spiral of addiction. All the lies and everything else we did to lose trust don’t just go away because we went to rehab and got sober. Let’s do everything we can to show that we are dead serious about our recovery and so very sorry for the damage we caused while in active addiction and, now that we are sober once and for all, we are focused on getting our lives back on track and repairing relationships. We have to do it before it is too late.
Don’t forget to give me a quick rating and review, and a subscribe, to. Also, my YouTube channel needs some love so please go subscribe there, too
Much love and respect!
Visit the MSA website at https://MySoberAddiction.com
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Check out my YouTube channel https://youtube.com/MattStevensMSA
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My Creation Addiction, Relationship With The ALL
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It seems like every time I get on here saying I need to get more consistent with my uploads something always happens. It’s not unlike back during active addiction, something would always come up giving you a reason to put off getting sober until tomorrow. The difference is, though, during active addiction, an excuse to keep using drugs was always welcomed. This time, the lovely Kitty’ s mother passed away and we’ve been dealing with that. I have lost my stepmom and that has been extremely difficult but this is the only parent Kitty has really ever known so. It has been different this time. She’s getting there, all your thoughts and prayers are greatly appreciated. Also, I am currently getting over having Shingles. This came as a huge surprise since I was always under the impression that I’ve never even had chickenpox...well, apparently I have...so there’s that. Shingles is one of the most physically painful things I’ve ever endured, and I even got it in my eye and the possibility of going blind was very real. I couldn’t even look at a computer screen for a couple weeks, so getting this podcast edited and published has not been possible until now. I really appreciate your understanding and support. All these things all happening at once tells me that we are on the verge of something good and the adversary is trying to hit the brakes on us. All we can do is keep pushing trough it.
In this, the 25th episode of My Sober Addiction, I mostly go into some clarifications and expand on some things that were brought up in episode 24. Our purpose here and what we are here to learn aren’t always the same thing but can (and often do) intersect. For example, I feel that we are here to learn to be creators, just like The Creator is. In my case, learning that also crosses over into addiction recovery and how I have came to understand that active addiction taught me the dark side of Manifestation. We are always taught that the Law of Attraction is this love and light and rainbows and unicorns and everything we ever wanted type thing, rarely are we taught that we are always manifesting, be it good or bad. I have learned that while Law of Attraction is almost everything we need to know to create amazing lives, it isn’t everything. We must also get into action, give the Universe a means to bring us the end we desire. Intention, emotion, vibration and action is what I have found to be the Secret. The part that is usually left out is the part about action. We have to DO something!
My Sober Addiction has grown quite a lot despite my inconsistency and I am so grateful for your support and understanding. I am writing a lot, and have every intention of continuing this work so I am pushing through all the adversity with the knowing that it is a sign that I am doing the right thing and on the verge of something big. Please consider giving me a rating and review wherever you get your podcasts as well as a subscribe. Also, a subscribe on Substack (Matt Stevens) and on YouTube (MattStevensMSA) would be so appreciated. I haven’t done anything on YouTube yet but have recently been shown how it would definitely be good for me to do, so please give me a subscribe there, too, so that I can begin doing live streams there.
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Transmuting Addiction and Toxic Positivity
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Our time in Active Addiction was most likely the most negative time in our lives. What we have learned from this is that we can’t always turn a blind wye to our problems. Yes, I am a firm believer in “Where attention goes energy flows,” but that doesn’t mean to completely ignore past traumas or bad things that have happened in our lives. A lot of times we need to forgive ourselves so that we can truly get over it and move on. Transmutation is when we take something and turn it into something else. In the case of addiction, we get sober, forgive ourselves, and then transmute the addiction into something good. We can be examples to others who haven’t yet gotten sober and are feeling hopelessly lost in addiction. Sobriety is possible and we are living proof of it. We are living proof that you can take the worst thing that ever happened to you and turn it into something good, and then be inspirations to others.
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