Your story is so impactful and hopeful and told with intelligence, wisdom and humour. I hope that your writing about it will one day infiltrate and encourage a wider audience. In the meantime, it's great work and I enjoy it immensely.
While I appreciate having open conversations about addiction and helping normalize how we talk about it, I remember going to the Mahtay with you another time when a random person you seemed to know did almost the exact same thing (though he was much less angry). It made me realize there's a difference between reducing stigma and unloading deeply personal trauma onto someone who hasn't consented to that conversation. I think part of recovery is also developing the self-awareness to recognize when someone is willing and able to have that conversation. We absolutely need spaces where people can be honest about what they're going through, but we also need to respect other people's emotional boundaries.
It sounds like you walked into an ‘80’s post punk bar and listened to a whole lot of country instead.
Haha. That sums it up nicely, Mauro. ;)
Your story is so impactful and hopeful and told with intelligence, wisdom and humour. I hope that your writing about it will one day infiltrate and encourage a wider audience. In the meantime, it's great work and I enjoy it immensely.
While I appreciate having open conversations about addiction and helping normalize how we talk about it, I remember going to the Mahtay with you another time when a random person you seemed to know did almost the exact same thing (though he was much less angry). It made me realize there's a difference between reducing stigma and unloading deeply personal trauma onto someone who hasn't consented to that conversation. I think part of recovery is also developing the self-awareness to recognize when someone is willing and able to have that conversation. We absolutely need spaces where people can be honest about what they're going through, but we also need to respect other people's emotional boundaries.