anxiety led me to trapping myself in my house, rarely venturing outside at all, mixed with heavy drinking that ended up with a lengthy hospital stay, losing my house and my wife.
One of the big things I learned was that adventures can be smallWith the support of family, friends, medical professionals and local substance support groups, I spent 2019 trying to “get back out there”, to dip my toes back in the world (and I wrote a book about it).
Then, Covid struck and it was “everyone back inside"!Although initially there was a sinking feeling of back to square one, I found that what I’d learned during my year of what I call “adventures” helped keep my anxiety about the future at bay.
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