Thank you for letting me know!

Congratulations for the freedom you chose to give yourself to live life with options outside the pot. Even better that you can sell the pot – sometimes our pots become stepping stones to help someone else who can rest for a while in our pot, get the benefit of what we had created, and grow from there.

My best wishes for you,
Jane

I just found your site, and as far as “what’s outside the pot”, you may not even know how right you are…

In mid 2006 I sold my “pot.”

My website that had begun when I had 6 months sober and 6 months with no mental health relapses; it began as a single page of links to dual diagnosis resources
and was compiled on a donated computer while living in a dual diagnosis sober living home.

When the sale was finalized it had over 10,000 pages, 35,000 registered members on the message boards, and received between 8,000-11,000 visitors daily.

And it was killing me. I was working 15+ hours a day. Every day.

looking back I made so many decisions based purely on emotions. My work on my pot wasn’t done…I “knew” that, but didn’t know how to stop a process that had already begun. And once completed, I felt like I was standing on a corner…empty handed…my pot was gone.

And for the next year and a half, so was I. Living in darkness. Just staring at my computer screen for hours, sometimes days at a time.

I had forgotten something I used to share often…as long as I am sober, as long as I am taking care of my mental illness…I have options. Every single day, of every week, month and year…I have options, choices, room to move around, and plenty of gray area.

But having forgot, or having decided to forget, I was stuck with the exact opposite.

I never want to forget again…there is life, there are options, outside of the pot.

Thank you for reminding me.

JJH