LotusT battled addiction and lived from motel to motel. But with prayer, help from others, and her own desire for more, she is now sober. She has a job, a beautiful daughter, a step daughter, a loving husband and a home. She is thriving. In our podcast, Unsealed Poets, she Shares her story and her poetry.
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Transcript of video:
I wanted to give up. I was so tired of going through everything. I was so tired of grieving because I had lost my only brother some many years back. But I still live with that. I was dealing with addiction, and I felt like I was never going to get out of that. It was a very dark place, but because I had gotten tired of it and because I wanted better, not just for myself but for my now beautiful daughter that I have, along with my now sober husband, I wanted more for us. So I can’t get more. If I gave up, I can’t do better. If I just stay in the same spot. So my advice is just, just push yourself. I know it’s hard. I know the struggle is real. But trust me when I say you’re going to make it, you’re going to be okay. You’re gonna. It will get better. It won’t be. It won’t be better overnight. It’s not going to happen that quickly. You have to give yourself enough grace because you went from somebody who either had it all or at one point was not struggling as much as you are now to one trial after another. And that’s okay. It’s okay to take a break. It’s okay to sit and cry. It’s okay to, you know, scream, shout, whatever it is that makes you feel better, whatever it is that will help you get to it in a positive way. Do it. But don’t sit there for long. Don’t. Don’t stay stuck. You have to. You have to keep going.
