From Addiction to Recovery: Reclaiming Everything You’ve Lost

Addiction steals everything, leaving you with one thing—but recovery is about flipping that script and taking back your life. You’re not alone, and you’re never too far gone to fight your way back. 👊

There's a one-sentence description of addiction that pretty much sums it up...

Addiction is giving up EVERYTHING in exchange for ONE thing.

Addiction in an insidious MF'er!

It feeds on everything you care about it. It converts everything into pain.

Happiness, success, joy, even love.

So much pain that it forces you to feed it.

But it's a trickster.

It forces you to feed it, to lessen the pain so that you can show up for the things you love.

It literally twists shit up and makes it so sideways it makes your own mind turn against you.

You lose the ability to think with any kind of rational thought.

Everything becomes focused on building an environment that feeds the addiction.

It doesn't matter what the catalyst or pain relief mechanism is.

People automatically associate drugs and alcohol and a fucked up childhood with addiction.

It doesn't matter how good or wholesome of a person you are. It will use your morals, ethics, and values against you.

Because its waste products are guilt, regret, and shame.

It's not exclusive to people who had hard abusive, neglectful, and trauma-filled lives.

People get hurt at work taking care of their families and get addicted to pain pills that lead them to a pawn shop selling their wedding ring that sealed the most important and powerful love of their life for $30 bucks or in a dingy dark alley doing shady shit for heroin.

And before you get all judgy and say "it's a choice", I agree with you. It is a choice.

We always have a choice. But many times, it's a choice that requires a comparison so graphic I won't even write it out.

No one has great aspirations to be an addict who watches everything they love get consumed by the addiction, including themselves.

But it can and does suck ANYONE in.

And make no mistake here, eventually, it will completely consume you and your entire life!

I don't care how badass or strong you think you are.

If you're lucky, you'll escape the clutches of that shit long enough to flip the script.

Recovery.

Recovery is giving up ONE thing in exchange for EVERYTHING...

I don't know your personal battle, the intensity of it, or how many times you've gotten into the ring to fight it and got your ass handed to you.

I do know that The PowerLife Principles were basically born from necessity for myself so that I didn't go back to that life.

And we've seen a few dozen people get clean and get their lives back because of The PowerLife Principles.

They didn't know that was going to happen. But it did.

And I'm super proud of them.

So just know, if you've walked away from that fight a beaten, battered, bloody, defeated mess...

Get yourself back to that state of ultimate courage and get back in that fucking ring! As many times as it takes.

Because it's possible and there's no universe where nature's laws work by giving up everything for one thing.

You're meant to have it all.

And you can.

September is addiction recovery month. That's something I can support and give some attention to.

This, I am 100% certain I am qualified to say 🔥