Episode 1: Thinking for Ourselves
Let us start to learn how to think for ourselves.
“What were you thinking,” is an open discussion on topics related to seeing the world differently, thinking for ourselves, and self-improvement within substance abuse and mental illness. With real current news within the world, we will make you laugh, cry, and help you open your minds to ideas of becoming the real you. We are raw, honest, and nonjudgmental individuals seeking your insight and perspectives. We want to know what you were thinking.
There was no interest, desire, or pursuit of getting clean and sober until I decided for myself that this was the best thing for me. Unless we teach people the ability to think for themselves, inspire an interest to value ourselves, encourage and develop passions that intrigue us, and empower control that is internal while rejecting demands of others that don’t hold true with our interests, nothing will change.
No government wants this freedom in such a clear fashion as I have defined because control is the foundation of authority. Our educational system teaches through minimization and forced curriculums designed to control thought and maintain control.
Since much of the recovery community doesn’t teach the principles of making good decisions for themselves, we can understand the vulnerability and danger behind the power of not thinking for one self. If I am always with someone who can make good decisions for me, never am presented with drugs or alcohol, and never have a desire to use drugs and alcohol; my sobriety will most likely be safe.
Will I always have someone present when I find a bindle of methamphetamine on the ground at a gas station? Will a thought, craving, or desire to use be eradicated from my existence? Not likely. With all my personal experience, clients I have worked with, and many friends in recovery; the thought to use will periodically present itself and for that moment, we may be alone to decide our course of action.
