Welcome back to another episode of the show, everyone.

On this episode, I connect with Will.

Tell you a little bit of the story of how I met Will.

He'd sent me a message over on Instagram or email, one of the two.

And then we ended up connecting on Instagram, and he had some videos and some pictures.

He's like, I want to show you this stuff,

really paint the full picture of how my life was

and everything like that.

He sent over these pictures.

And I was like, wow, man, it really hit me.

It really did because he was alive.

But just seeing that, I'm no medical expert or professional, but I just knew what I was seeing that he was not headed in a good direction when he was in that place in his life.

And we got into it in the episode and found out a lot more about what it kind of ended him up there. And when we first connected,

he had made a ton of progress and he was doing, you know, really well in his life. And then I think even like he's going to share here in this follow-up, there can be these, I call them kind of lulls,

kind of like comfortable with our new life of not drinking and insubriety.

And for whatever reason, I'm guilty of this as well.

And this is one of the times when my life went downhill really fast.

As I had convinced myself that I didn't need to go to the support groups anymore, I didn't need to see my psychiatrist anymore. I didn't need to talk about this journey that I was on anymore. And then I found

myself in a really difficult spot about four months later. And Will didn't take it to that level,

but did share about the lack of, you know, maybe plugging into this whole sobriety thing can put us back on shaky ground.

Which is really interesting because in a lot of other journeys, but I feel like they're very relatable too.

I mean, if you're going to the gym and you're eating well, and then you all of a sudden stop going to the gym and stop eating well, you're probably going to lose your progress.

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