I look at the books I gathered around me over the years: Nelson Mandela’s Long walk to Freedom (from my time in Africa), Che Guevara’s The Motorcycle Diaries (from the trips I took through Latin America) and Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog (from my career at Nike). These people touched million’s of people’s lives, because they believed it could be done. Just do it, right?
My ultimate goal has never been to build a website, or start a blog. I didn’t even want to just tell a story, everyone has a story to tell in the end. Sharing my (recovery)story is just a means to an end. I have a dream as a peer worker: Give people faith in one’s abilities to overcome.
What I get from talking to my peers though, is that not everyone will get it straight away. I might tell people parts of my recovery story, but they see my recovery process as something dreamy and elite. Not for them. I want to show people what can be done if they just have faith.
🫶🏻 G.
~You can surf life, like riding a set of waves~
The Surf of Life 