About Me

Thought I would add this page "About Me" so I could tell you a little bit about myself and add to it as my life may change from time to time.

My name is Janie and I am a 47 (at the time I started doing this blog) single woman.  I have been in recovery since Nov. 2009.  Have been married and divorced twice and have one child.  She is from my first marriage and she in now married and lives out of town.

I live with my mom and dad.  Am dealing, on a daily basis, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis and being over weight.  I didn't know until after I entered recovery that I suffered from fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis.  The over weight part did not come in to play until I got clean and started a medication regiment for the fibro and osteoarthritis.   Living with mom and dad helps me and them out.  There are things around the house they can't do and things I can't do, so we all work together and things get done.

It is my hope and prayer that you enjoy and maybe learn about the disease of addiction in the writings I will post.  These are my experiences and beliefs.  Some of the posts are about others that have shared their experience, strength and hope with me, but most of the time you will see that I keep in all on myself as not to be telling anyone else's story.  Just my own.  But I must include input from others as they have helped me in some way to get to where I am today.  Not all will agree with me but they don't have to.  This blog is something I only did on Facebook until a few months ago.  This site is still a work in process and you may see somethings change from time to time.

In the 12 step program that I attend, I have learned that it doesn't matter what, who you are, were or who you knew or know.  So you will never see me name who or where these experiences had taken place.  Everything can change when you enter in recovery.  I feel that it is important to share my experiences with you, especially if you are an addict to, so that the is a better understanding of addiction and that treatment is out there.  In my recovery program, this is how we help each other, by sharing our experiences, strength and hope.  There are people with the disease of addiction that have had many experiences with most, if not all, of the things that you can think or come across of.

I am trying to help educate more people about the disease of addiction and if this blog should put  you on coarse for your own recovery process, than I am an extremely happy woman.  There are a lot of misunderstandings out there about the disease of addiction.  Yes, it is a disease.  It is trying to kill the ones of  us that have it.  It can be arrested and as long as we continue to do the next right thing for the next right reason, all will be well.

My recovery program is a selfless program.  But in working it and going through my own process I, this is just for me, have to be selfish with my program.  I don't work a "perfect" program, but I do try and that is all that we can really do and not use.  Have made so many friends in the program that I never, never have to be along for anything that may come down the pipe at me.

May also be posting about my fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis as they are a big part of why I started using in the first place.  Dealing with life on life's terms is not always the easiest thing to do.  It takes work and a belief in God (who is my Higher Power).

There may be posts from time to time that may offend some of you, I am sorry, in advance, but there are things that I feel very strongly about in addiction and the recovery process.

It is my hope and prayer that I help just one person from this post.  If there is every anything that has been posted that you don't understand or have a question about, please feel free to leave a comment or you may email me.  I will do my best to find an answer and an explanation.

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