Sean Fogler
Jul 22, 2017 · 1 min read

Tremendous article ! Being honest with ourselves and seeing things for what they are is the solution and certainly no small feat, but worth it in endless ways. I know for me when I carry the belief at my core that I am no better or worse than another I am free to experience all the authentic thoughts and emotions that life can bring. For me growing up in a wealthy family with two narcissists as my role models I was taught to believe I was special. That I deserved better just because I existed and that the world owed me everything it had to offer. This was a lie that set the foundation for a life of excess, pain, emptiness and truly the death of my soul. I was numb, never feeling emotions never feeling the natural highs and lows that make life beautiful. Always searching for something that was unattainable. There could never be enough of anything to medicate my empty soul. I was sprinting on a gerbil wheel trying to find happiness everywhere but within myself. It wasn’t until I was flirting with death that I was able to break the chains and let go of a life and a belief system that was slowly killing me. Today I am free. I am free because I can see reality as it is and I know there is something greater than myself, and though I am a nobody I am important and deserving of love and happiness in this vast universe.

    Sean Fogler

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