Everybody wants to be in the cool club, right?
I was recently reading an article about the actor, Rob Lowe (34 years sober) and his 10 Transformative moments in his life. Getting Sober was up toward the top of that list. He talked about sobriety being the “cool club.”
Rob says in the People article:
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"Getting sober was an incremental decision," he tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story that celebrates 10 transformative moments in the Hollywood icon's life. "It's baby steps until you're ready. You can't do it until you’re really ready.”
"I always tell people: you can't get sober... I don't care if it's fentanyl, booze, drugs, coke, pot, gambling, overeating, sex addiction, whatever, you cannot stop…for your job, your wife, your family, your parole officer, because you screwed something up.”
At the end of the day, Lowe says, "You only are going to stop when you're ready, period." (Rob Lowe, People Magazine)
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Later in the article, he talks about his son joining him in sobriety, who now has 6 years sober. What a gift it is to share that with another family member. It IS possible to turn this ship around. Many of us are on that same ship and others in the family may not be aware they are on it. When we turn the ship of destruction and shame around and head back into the light, we are paving the way for others in the family to follow us into the light and on that road to sobriety.
The disease is often deep in the family—more than one of us is suffering. Just as that is true, more than one of us can end that cycle of shame and walk into the “cool club” of recovery.
My brother, Roger, and I were in the cool club together. He passed this last year, but he died sober. I will continue to shine our legacy in the family to be in recovery and remain sober to shine the light for others to be attracted to join the cool club—inside and outside of our family.
My sponsor said to me early in sobriety, “Heidi, this is where the party is!”
Yesterday, I celebrated 7500 days of sobriety.
I am saving a seat for you in the cool club.
Come join me.
“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.”
Ecclesiasties 3:1
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