in this video I'm gonna teach you how to stay sober for 30 days from drugs and
alcohol so make sure that you stay tuned
what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the
problem but focus on the solution and yeah hey don't leave don't you leave yet
if you're not an addict or an alcoholic trying to get sober make sure that you
stick them out because there is some very important information in this video
but maybe you can share with somebody else that you know who might have a
problem with drugs or alcohol and they're wondering how to get started one
of my favorite quotes out there I love quotes in case you didn't know that what
my favorite quotes is something to the effect of the journey of a thousand
miles begins with the first step right so it's important to talk about how to
stay sober for thirty days from drugs and alcohol like how you get this first
thirty days under your belt I'm gonna start doing a little bit more of this
just different increments of sobriety because there's very different things I
had to do in order to get my sobriety those of you who don't know me I have
been clean and sober since June 23rd 2012 got sober
Oh my 27th birthday so if I stay sober until this June it'll be six years
that'll be pretty cool and the first thing I'll say is when I first got sober
I never ever ever ever ever in a million years thought I was gonna stay clean not
only did I not think I was gonna stay clean but literally nobody else did like
my mom was ready for me to die like she didn't think I was gonna stay clean and
like throughout my first year she always said to me like I never thought you were
gonna stay clean I'm like in your face right but anyways so I'm not gonna go
through my whole story I have some other videos that I'll probably link up in the
info cards if you want to check that out I talked about withdrawal I talked about
what led me to getting sober and things like that so I won't dive too far into
that so anyways I didn't go to rehab to get sober I was given an ultimatum to go
into a sober living or be homeless and I'm
all right guess I'm going to sober living so I wouldn't do this sober
living and like I mentioned in my detox video I did a cold turkey detox from OBS
all right my alcohol withdrawal had already kind of diminished so I was no
longer really detoxing from alcohol it was just opiates and I go to the
sober living house and there was some rules one of the rules was that we had
to go to five 12-step meetings a week AAA or NA or I guess whatever a I could
find but because of my cold turkey detox I was bedridden aside from that like I
guess I could have gotten up and gone to meetings but I'll be honest with you
guys like we had to get a little piece of paper signed and I forged those
signatures so like when I got sober I hated people I hated people so much and
it's hard for people to realize that because I'm always so happy and cheery
and I'm very sociable but I used to just absolutely hate everybody almost as much
as I hated myself so I isolated in my room just detoxing going through misery
forged signatures and didn't do anything that first week so when the detox
started to end and that fog started to lift the insanity the pain and all those
things that don't get me wrong the pain was still kind of there but the fog
started or left and then everything's just sort of flooding into my brain all
the guilt all the shame all the remorse everything that I had done to my son
everything that I did to my son's mom everything that I put my mom through my
dad through all of my friends all that stuff was just eating me alive
while I'm sitting in that bed alone right and I've talked about why you
don't isolate right like I always say this when you isolate it's like being in
a horror movie and locking yourself in the room with a killer we can be our own
worst enemy even if you're not a drug addict or alcoholic you know this to be
true so I was trapped in my head and usually when I feel guilty shameful
remorseful anything like that you know what I do I get really high but now I
couldn't do that now I couldn't get high so what am I gonna do so I rolled out of
bed and went up to one of my roommates who had a
car and I knew they were going to a meeting I'm like yo I might do you have
room in your car I need to go to a meeting right because I figured maybe if
I go to a meeting I can keep myself busy right so I go to a meeting it's an hour
long and I go to this meeting and for that one hour at one score this thing
turned off and absolutely I'm like whoa holy crap so if I go to a meeting I
don't have to sit in my head right so I started asking more and more and more I
can't go with you to a meeting can I go with you to a meeting is every time I
wasn't listening to other people I was listening to the insane voices going
through my head those heads telling me that I couldn't stay sober my head
telling me that I didn't deserve to stay sober my head telling me that I should
have died like that tens of thousands of other people who can't get clean right
so I started going to meetings every single day and then I started going to
two meetings a day three meetings a day but that's when it kind of stops for me
I've never I don't think I've ever gone to more than three meetings in the day
but I was purely going to meetings just to get out of my head they were free I
had friends that I knew who are going to him and I started to get to know the
guys in my house but aside from that aside from that here's just some other
useful tips for your first 30 days sober like I just had to sum up all of my
willpower just to stay clean just to stay clean right like everything in me
was like just don't use just don't pick up just don't pick up just don't pick up
like I knew drug dealers in California I knew where the liquor store was I barely
had any money but it was enough you know what I mean and I had to use all of this
willpower so something that I do and this is a trick that I teach a lot of my
clients at my rehab procrastinate so most addicts and alcoholics are great at
procrastinating so during that first 30 days what I would do is say you know
what I'm not gonna get high right now I'll get high in an hour right or I'll
get high like at 4 o'clock you know and that's what I would do I would just push
it off push it off push it off and then at night I'd be like you know what I'm
just gonna get high tomorrow like the more I procrastinated it next thing you
know I was going 10 days 15 days 20 days 30 days but just
a lot of the time I was just trying to find things that kept me busy
whether it was zoning out on watching TV whether it was just listening to my
roommates talk sometimes it was going to play some ping-pong or some video games
with them I was just doing whatever I could to just stay busy all right so I
want you all to know to like even though I'm talking about going to meetings like
I was extremely close minded like even though I was listening to people like I
was like you guys are full of crap like I literally thought that 12-step
programs we're gonna just teach me how to manage my alcohol and manage my drugs
and when people were sharing like I haven't used in five years I'm like you
are so full of crap I can't believe it because that's how crazy we are like we
think that it's impossible how do you even live a life like I'm like you must
at least have beer like you all leave here and you go have to be like that's
how twisted we are like even to this day when I meet people who like don't really
drink I'm like what are you you know so I was just sitting there I wasn't listen
to this these people but I didn't believe a word that they were saying all
right so even though I didn't believe them I just kept going back to them so
if your motivation is just to turn this thing off just go there free you know
every like pretty much every city has 'm there's also apps like in the rooms
where you can attend meetings online like I just had to do that to get out of
my head most of the time but eventually
something changed and something happened which I will cover in another video all
right so leave your comments down below if you're somebody in sobriety let me
know where your best tips are for staying sober for 30 days because maybe
somebody will come across it and they'll get some help too
okay but again please please PLEASE even if you're not in Harrington recovery and
you just happen to watch this video please share this with someone you know
who is struggling with a drug or alcohol addiction because if they can at least
get to 30 days that's probably longer than they've been
sober or clean in a very long time so please do everybody a favor
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busy for 30 days and I'll see you next time