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Having practical life skills has always been a big problem for me and I would assume it is for most of the clients in the Back2Basics program. I have always been the type to get by with the bare minimum while knowing people around me and close to me to do basic essentials. Learning basic life skills is something very beneficial to me in this program like waking up early and doing something productive or going to the gym and cleaning throughout the day. Back home, my girlfriend would do everything for me and I would take advantage of that by letting her live with me in return for buying me drugs and food. I took major advantage of my mother too, by banking on her to always bring me food and apply to jobs for me, For me, it is either one thing or the complete opposite.
An example of this is with school. I would do my best for the first couple weeks and it seemed that once I got my first C or even B I i would almost purposely start tanking. In regards to life skills it is either everything is beyond neat and clean or everything is left out and garbage and mess start to just pile up on each other. Coming into this program especially the first week I saw no connection in cleaning and having a standard hard day to my sobriety. Now I see that it has everything to do with my sobriety.
My mind is now more clear then it has been my whole life and having a structured day with aspects I may not necessarily enjoy doing, is essential in becoming a successful productive member in today’s society. Now that I am getting past the whole idea that I don’t want to do those things and letting myself expect to enjoy everything this program is based off of. Hopefully I can learn to do these basic life skills and needs when I am finally on my own and not just look at it as a chore. Its amazing how much I am realizing the correlation between learning base life skill that any productive man in society has to to do with my sobriety and just loving like as the American dream it is set for.
Client Journal from David