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Here is a raw and honest look into the sober journey of our clients. We have chosen to honor and respect their anonymity throughout this learning process. We thank them for being willing to share the highs and lows of working this 12-step, adventurous program known as Back2Basics. Let their stories take you away…
Doing the Right Thing
I have been in my head a lot about some of the stuff that’s been going on at Back2Basics. One of the clients was continuing to use in the house, which put pressure on me to do the same. That was very hard for me because I’m very serious about getting sober this time. All the other times were not real because of the fact that I figured people get addicted to meth and heroine, not really so much weed and alcohol, which were my drugs of choice. I didn’t like feeling vulnerable because using is not something I want to do anymore. When it happened I was at a loss for words I didn’t know what to do or how to approach the situation. Initially I talked another client about the clients abusing. He was pretty mad at first, and then he had my back about the situation and told me that I had done the right thing. I still had a feeling of discontent with myself, but as my fellow clients and I talked to staff about the incident they agreed that I was helping him in the long run. I learned that it didn’t even matter if the client hated me for telling because I was demonstrating that his sobriety and also mine were more important to me. I just wish that the client would benefit from the experience in all because I know I sure have. I’ve learned a lot about sobriety in the only two months that I have been in the program. I am looking forward to life in general.
— B2B client
Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
So I was pretty worried about going the kayaking trip. I was worried about if I was ready to go on the river in the kayak, also the fact that the teacher was pretty intimidating to me. When we were driving out to the starting point of the trip there were a lot of emotions going through my mind.Most of them were pretty stupid reasons to be having anxiety over the trip. Most of what helped get through the ride over was all the clients joking and laughing the whole way there, which in return made my anxiety not such a big deal.
When we arrived I had anxiety still over our instructor for the trip. It was almost like our instructor just needed to be in his own zone and on the river was definitely his zone. In the actual class I wasn’t looking forward to the trip at all, just because in the actual learning class our instructor was very serious about everything we were doing in the class so I was very worried about the way he was going to act on the river, but man was I wrong.
It was pretty amazing the trip in general, I was very excited to do the rapids, rolling was also a lot of fun, I just had to get used to the instructor being real cool and also the fact that he respected us for working hard on the river. He respected me and the rest of the clients with equal respect and he provided very good meals. Overall I connected with the clients in the house much better than I had before we left. What a good sober experience.
— B2B client