Personal thoughts and rantings Archives - Year Of The Johnny https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/category/personal/ Year of the Johnny an addiction blog that gives hope & no bullshit approach to reaching new highs heroin-free! Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:32:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.12 https://i0.wp.com/www.yearofthejohnny.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cropped-10556343_10205756775226198_5357122596763986884_n.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Personal thoughts and rantings Archives - Year Of The Johnny https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/category/personal/ 32 32 Will The REAL Game Of Thrones Fans please Stand Up? https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/game-of-thrones-premiere-fans-suck/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=game-of-thrones-premiere-fans-suck Sat, 06 Apr 2019 10:53:44 +0000 https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/?p=25601 The post Will The REAL Game Of Thrones Fans please Stand Up? appeared first on Year Of The Johnny.

]]> Kicking Heroin-My Mother’s Sacrifice & Part She Played In My Staying Sober https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/kicking-heroin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kicking-heroin Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:12:04 +0000 https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/?p=25537 The post Kicking Heroin-My Mother’s Sacrifice & Part She Played In My Staying Sober appeared first on Year Of The Johnny.

]]> Everything About Getting Sober Sucks! Except the Happy Ending https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/getting-sober-sucks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=getting-sober-sucks Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:14:11 +0000 https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/?p=25516 The post Everything About Getting Sober Sucks! Except the Happy Ending appeared first on Year Of The Johnny.

]]> I Fled From AA and NA Knowing How Dangerous it was to my Sobriety https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/connections-in-recovery/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=connections-in-recovery Fri, 07 Dec 2018 14:31:06 +0000 https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/?p=25167 The post I Fled From AA and NA Knowing How Dangerous it was to my Sobriety appeared first on Year Of The Johnny.

]]> Gratitude & Thanks On This Thanksgiving Holiday. https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/gratitude-exposed-a-week-after-the-thanksgiving-holiday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gratitude-exposed-a-week-after-the-thanksgiving-holiday Sun, 26 Nov 2017 11:36:57 +0000 https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/?p=24736 Gratitude and Thanks Make Everyday Special and Worth Living. Gratitude and thanks are felt everyday, but we let this feeling get pushed out of our hectic busy lives. Start interupting your habits to express more gratitude. Start each day by being thankful for what you have and who has your back. I wrote a post […]

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]]> What I remembered about my addiction watching TV’s Shameless. https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/shameless-no-regrets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shameless-no-regrets Tue, 26 Sep 2017 00:57:30 +0000 https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/?p=401 Life in this building is freezing and wet, if I once had a brain then I seem to forget ‘Cos just when I caught it, it slipped through the net, now we sedate ourselves slowly no time for regret…Amebix   Showtime’s Shameless resonates with a place inside of me because of the years spent struggling with […]

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]]> Street Junky: Homeless Alone Hungry and Cold. https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/street-junky/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=street-junky Sat, 05 Aug 2017 20:45:48 +0000 https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/?p=353 Homeless, Alone, Hungry and Cold: Street Junky!   I have been focusing much of my time editing the second part of Street Junky, really getting out all of my needless rabble, and marketing. My next few posts, for the month of August, will be about my transformation from Homeless, Alone, Hungry, and Cold in NYC’s […]

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]]> How to Defeat Negative Self-Talk and Adhere to Advice of Mentors when Making Decisions. [Pt IV] https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/crossroads_iv_negative_-self-talk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crossroads_iv_negative_-self-talk Sun, 02 Jul 2017 18:00:49 +0000 https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/?p=328 Negative self-talk started me down a downward spiral of anxiety and unhappiness about having to work for someone else. This is the last part in my series about being stuck at the crossroads pertaining to my day job and freelance writing career and how negative self-talk almost drove me mad. I would first like to […]

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]]> Addicted to Drugs, Sex, or Shopping then READ THIS and Smile. https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/addicted-drugs-sex-smile/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=addicted-drugs-sex-smile Sun, 28 May 2017 16:20:27 +0000 https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/?p=302 When we become addicted to anything we give up our power and control, therefore the problem is the obsession. Addicted? So what is your poison? Heroin, Jack Danial’s, Sex club’s, Swingers bar’s, Cocaine, Lord and Taylor, Walmart, 7-Eleven, Wife-swapping…? Do you enjoy the feeling you feel when you are letting your addiction run free? Or […]

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]]> How to come face to face with your Demons Guilt and Shame https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/guilt-and-shame/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=guilt-and-shame Mon, 15 May 2017 21:53:08 +0000 https://www.yearofthejohnny.com/?p=296 Guilt and Shame Dangerous feelings undermining happiness and success. How do we free ourselves from the emotional bondage that guilt, and shame?   When I was on the streets using 5 bundles of dope a day, I did what I had to do to make my body feel normal and function in the morning. The […]

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