Aug 19, 2026 · 59 min · 16 segments
This week, Dave E. stops by via Zoom from Toronto, Ontario. He is a person in recovery and has found deep passion in working wirh humans along their journeys through life; with a focus on walking with…
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And, and, you know, I, I think, I think the main thing and I'll, I'll tell my story and this will be whatever it is.
Oh, wow.
But then I'd come into these rooms, which is infrequent at this point in my life, but I still haven't attacked.
And I would kind of end up kind of putting on like a different persona and speaking in a way and about things in a way that I don't really fit with how I actually think about recovery anymore or how I live my life.
Yeah.
And so to me, it's a beautiful thing when someone recognizes it's okay to have more, right? Yeah.
yeah it's okay to do more for yourself than just one thing and if one thing works great that's awesome it still doesn't mean you don't you shouldn't do other things you know right
yeah yeah and and and i i think like it really brought me back to a time in um in early recovery where i'd sit in in aa meetings and almost be brought to tears out of frustration looking around the room just dying for somebody else who appeared to be struggling with some of the same things that I was within that space, but then being told over and over, this is the only thing that you can do.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
And, and, you know, I, I think, I think the main thing and I'll, I'll tell my story and this will be whatever it is.
Oh, wow.
But then I'd come into these rooms, which is infrequent at this point in my life, but I still haven't attacked.
And I would kind of end up kind of putting on like a different persona and speaking in a way and about things in a way that I don't really fit with how I actually think about recovery anymore or how I live my life.
Yeah.
And so to me, it's a beautiful thing when someone recognizes it's okay to have more, right? Yeah.
yeah it's okay to do more for yourself than just one thing and if one thing works great that's awesome it still doesn't mean you don't you shouldn't do other things you know right
yeah yeah and and and i i think like it really brought me back to a time in um in early recovery where i'd sit in in aa meetings and almost be brought to tears out of frustration looking around the room just dying for somebody else who appeared to be struggling with some of the same things that I was within that space, but then being told over and over, this is the only thing that you can do.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
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