it was just reported today that demi lovato is healing up alright after her
drug overdose and now she's going back to rehab so in this video we're gonna
talk a little bit about Demi Lovato's relapse and what she's gonna have to do
if she wants to stay clean what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired
soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and today we got
great news that Demi Lovato is going back to rehab this is a big deal and I'm
gonna dive more into what you got to do after we lapse to stay clean but it's a
big deal because a lot of people realize and they don't try to get treatment for
a multitude of reasons all right so this is awesome I'm very very happy for Demi
Lovato and I'm glad that she has a strong support group to help her out
through this so Before we jump into this let's get caught up on the story so on
July 24th I think it was it was reported that Demi Lovato overdose she went to
the hospital there was a lot of stories going around whether it was heroin or
other drugs and things like that that came out that it wasn't heroin and real
quick I'm just gonna touch on this very slightly a lot of people a day or two
later started like tweeting out or saying things like it wasn't heroin
these are terrible lies terrible eyes and like here's my thing that just shows
the stigma from drug to drug like what if it was alcohol poisoning would it be
lesser that she almost killed herself because of alcohol and not heroin
who cares or what if it was benzos what if those pills does it really matter if
it was pills or wasn't heroin address a drug alcohol is alcohol
addiction is addiction it was killing you who cares what the substance is
anyways that's my quick little rant alright but she's been in the hospital
she was having some medical issues so she hadn't gone to treatment yet but
today we found out that she's healing up better and my beautiful girlfriend sent
me an article from People magazine in which it talks about Demi Lovato going
to treatment so I'm just gonna read a few quotes from this article it says
sources tell people the 25 year old sorry not sorry senior has agreed to
enter a drug treatment center following a relapse and overdose that has left her
hospitalized for the past 10 days Dimmie is well enough to leave the
hospital this weekend she has agreed to rehab and will go straight to an
inpatient facility one source says it's her choice to go to rehab this is not
anything that can be forced she understands the severity of her overdose
and the recovery has been very challenging for the source continued she
wants to be sober she wants to get help she understands that it will take a lot
of work and commitment to stay healthy but this is what she wants alright so
beautiful awesome news alright so before I jump into this thing alright you might
be sitting there especially if you don't know me and you're not subscribed yet
which you should do you might be saying like who is this guy
to talk about Demi Lovato's relapse well on June 23rd of this year I celebrated 6
years clean and sober my substances of choice started with alcohol went into
prescription painkillers and I did a whole assortment of other drugs alright
and I am somebody who has relapsed many many many times before I was able to get
the clean date that I have right now aside from that I've been working in a
drug and alcohol treatment center for the last three years and my facility
specializes in dual diagnosis what this means is not only do we treat addiction
but we also treat underlying mental illnesses anxiety depression bipolar
disorder PTSD and all of the other ones out there so I have a little bit of
experience when it comes to this topic alright so I'm going to be talking about
how to stay clean and sober after a relapse
these are lessons that I've learned for myself as well as seeing thousands
literally thousands I'm not exaggerating thousands of people who have come in
after a relapse and what works and doesn't work alright so do me a favor
and share this video share this video even if it's not to share news about
Demi Lovato share this with somebody who has relapsed or you know is dealing with
addiction like I'm gonna provide some very valuable information alright so I
just want to hit on a few quick topics about how Demi Lovato can stay clean and
sober alright this this is just from my
experience and what I've seen what works on what doesn't work obviously I don't
know Demi Lovato but this is just from what I've seen alright so the first
thing is don't lose hope never lose hope I see people who have relapsed
and time and time again and they're just going through the motions and it's
because they've lost hope right like I'm somebody where I laid in a hospital bed
dying and I wanted my family to give up on me I might just let me die just let
me leave this world as a drug addict alcoholic nothing's gonna work for me
I've already tried this thing before clearly it didn't work this is just the
way it is I lost hope so one thing she has to do is just realize that there is
hope available and all of you out there I've met people who have relapsed way
more times than I did and they're staying clean and they're living amazing
lives today so never lose hope the next one which is
more important than anything this is the biggest one stay humble and stay
teachable all right this is probably gonna be Demi Lovato's
biggest challenge have you've been clean especially for like years and Demi
Lovato had like six years when you're going after your sobriety again you
think you know everything you know everything trust me
and my rehab I see this all the time and I experience this too like what are you
gonna teach me that I don't already know don't do drugs right don't drink right
like that's what we hear so when people tell me like now Chris I already know
this I know that clearly something didn't sink in something didn't sink in
or you wouldn't have relapsed right and sometimes we got to start back wider
square one and just stay humble and stay teachable this is hard because it means
letting go of our ego letting go of our pride and admitting to ourselves I don't
know everything I don't know everything and there's
something that I need to learn I need to have a new experience with this so Demi
really needs to stay humble and stay teachable take all this and see what
happened to valuate what happened to led to her last relapse and what she can
learn from it to avoid these pitfalls in the future next is Demi is going to have
to again humble herself and realize that she's not better than anyone all right I
can't stress enough and I've done videos about this in the past right like drug
addiction doesn't care it doesn't care who you are it doesn't care how much
money you make it doesn't care how famous you are doesn't care about any of
that stuff it will kill you okay I interact with people all the time who
walk in there like oh I'm not bad as that person oh you did that I'm not that
bad I'm not this bad right and it's gonna be a struggle for
demi lovato because she's rich she's famous so when she goes to treatment I'm
guessing she's going to like a pretty fancy rehab but it's easier for people
to think they're better than other people oh I never did that I never sunk
to this low down it out of doubt and it's like we're all the same we're all
suffering from this same illness and again addiction doesn't care what you
have it will kill you so that's one of the issues that demi lovato is going to
have to deal with for the rest of her life because she's in the public
spotlight right she is rich he is famous she's an amazing artist right but she's
gonna have to remember she's just like the rest of us when it comes to this
insidious disease of addiction so the last thing I'll say and like I said I
don't know Demi personally but what I like doing research about Demi Lovato
like aside from like her mental illness and drug issues the number one search
result is like Demi Lovato drama Demi Lovato drama or do me like you know
sassing somebody on Twitter and all this other stuff like timmy is gonna need to
cut that out she needs to be nicer she has to be
nicer and I know Timmy's work 12-step programs before I know it and in these
programs we talk about practicing certain principles and some of those
principles are patience tolerance understanding love kindness forgiveness
all these things right and here's why that's so important I think this is
gonna be the key to Demi's recovery is that she needs to be nicer to people she
just has to be and here's why like let me play this tape out for you because I
was I was there too I was a jerk I was so angry and frustrated with people on
the inside I always had to tell people when they were wrong or when they were
dumb or not and all this other stuff right what it does is is that people
attack you more often okay people come at you when you're on the
offense all the time or even on the defense right you're getting all
defensive about stuff people are going to attack you even more because you're
not treating them with kindness you're not treating up with compassion you're
fueling the fire so you are increasing your own anger by not letting go but not
tolerating stuff okay like this is something like in 12-step programs we
take this moral inventory we take a look at things in our life that are not being
useful to us and it is not useful to be a jerk to people all right but
on another level too is people don't want to hang out with you it's very hard
to have loving supportive people when you're being a jerk and pushing your
friends away and having all this drama and stuff like that you need to learn
how to let stuff go so I think huge part of this is that dhimmi is gonna have to
work on anger management right she's gonna have to work on some love and
compassion and things like that like this is going to be huge huge and this
is something that a lot of people struggle with our anger will take us
back out they often say that resentments are like drinking poison and hoping the
other person dies it's only hurting us it's only hurting ourselves so I hope
now that Denny is going back into rehab that she starts all over and she gets
involved in the 12-step program she works the steps and a lot of people who
I see relapse and then they succeed is they go back and they say you know what
I wasn't really thorough with that or clearly that lesson went over my head
because I don't practice it well I did really good and this is something I see
a lot with people who get years as a body they were doing really well with it
in early recovery but as time went on they forgot those principles and that's
why we need to humble ourselves state Icha ballanced are back at square one
one of the reasons I love my job and working with everybody trying to get
clean is they remind me on a daily basis of these lessons that I learned very in
the very beginning that I still need to practice to this day all right
but anyway is best of luck to Demi Lovato I'll be following her and seeing
how things going not following her life literally that'd be creepy but it's
following her story and see how she's doing keep you guys posted but let's do
this for any of you out there who are in recovery and you struggle with a relapse
leave comments below what are your best tips for staying sober and clean after a
relapse alright anyways that's all I got for you today if you like this video
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