jdusty45

Thank you guys both. I've not navigated this site much so I hope I am responding in the right place. :-/ I have been wanting to call in to speak with Stef for a long time now but I want to wait until after I can donate some money to him. He does so much for everyone and I don't feel good about asking him for more before I am able to donate financially. I do share his stuff but money makes the world go round ya know. Thanks again for your support. It means a lot.

Hello FDR friends! I have been a FDR listener for about a year now and love this community. My life took a crazy turn a few months ago. (not in a determinist way) I had a son from a previous relationship and he lived with his mother. I am now married and have been for a few years. I am an ex-heroin IV user and used to be homeless and in and out of jails for about ten years. My sons mother was also an ex IV drug user. She had years of clean time until last November. She past away in April and the evidence points towards an overdose. My son now lives with me and my wife. (I have been sober for many years now.) Some really shady and appalling things happened to my son during the last days with his mother. A lot of it is speculation so I won't go into any details about it but I have since placed my son in CBT play therapy and I have been in therapy over the last 8 months. When I knew my son would be living with me I chose to quit my job so I could be with him all day. He is now 4 years old. I have started a Youtube channel called Teegz Adventures that "stars" my son. We film many different fun adventures that we go on and the channel is 100% kid-friendly. If any of you have little ones yourself or would like to check out his channel, I would love to have some philosophical, self aware, wonderful people in our community of friends there. As we all know how many youtube commenters are. I want my son to be surrounded by great people and I know no better place to find great people than here at FDR. If you enjoy our content, please subscribe and share our videos with your friends. I know this is a plug and a lot of people sigh at these sort of posts but it would mean the world to me and my son. Good people are hard to find so I want to take my chances here. Thanks everyone! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjA-Gv2bbV4Qr-nJ8696usQ

Hello everyone! I hoping there are others like myself who are philosophical, but also having a history of addiction. I would imagine there are a few of us so I thought I would put some of my info out here to you guys. I have an addiction blog where I write about my daily recovery and I also advocate many of the principles found here. I hope to build a network of thinkers who also have fought addiction in their pasts. A little about me- I am sober from heroin for about 7 years and other (Rx) drugs since Feb 1, 2012. I live in Utah and I am 36 years old. My father and I started writing a book that detailed my decade long battle with heroin and homelessness and when we got to the last chapter of the book, my father became ill with Amyloidosis. It took his life before we could publish the book. The writing of the book was pre-FDR and I never had the chance to speak with my dad about my childhood concerns. I have tried talking with my mother but it has not gone very well. Regardless, our book will be published in a month or 2 and is called A Walk in His Shoes. I hope this post isn't too out of place. It is my first post so I hope it is in the right place. If any of you are interested in more of my story, please check out www.jdusty45.wordpress.com Let me know if any of you are interested in further discussion about addiction/philosophy. Thanks everyone. Dustin J.