A LITTLE ABOUT ADDICTION STUDIES – PART 16 – A TESTED SOBRIETY;
In 2021, I enrolled for a two-year diploma course in addiction counselling. It felt like the right step, both for my own growth and for the vision I carried of helping others in recovery. But when Ann and I separated in 2022, I didn’t have the strength to keep going. I was broken, emotionally torn apart, and the course became one more weight I couldn’t carry.
It hurt deeply because this was the second time I had dropped out of a program: first at Nkumba, and now here again. I had managed to complete two semesters, and it was right in the middle of the third, out of four, that everything fell apart. The unfinished course became a symbol of my pain: so close, yet cut short.
In as much as I dropped out again, I came to believe that life itself was qualifying me in its own way to have a voice when it comes to overcoming addiction. Life taught me the reality…
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