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Hey everyone, welcome back to On the Mend. My name's Matt Willis and today we have another solo episode.

Today's going to be a bit different because I did a call out on social media for like a Q&A episode.

So people sent in lots of questions.

I put a little box on Instagram and you could fill it in.

And I got some really cool questions.

So I haven't looked at all of them, but we've made a little list and I'm going to just shoot from the hip and see what comes out.

But we've been starting these solo episodes with something

which I feel really passionate about, which is my gratitude list, which I do every day. And I haven't

done one today because the last couple of episodes I've been coming in, having already done one in the

morning and then trying to think of other ones, of other ones, on the spare of the moment.

And I thought, you know, I won't do one today

because I'm going to be doing one with you guys. So this is a fresh kind of gratitude list.

And what I normally do is I just sit and I kind of think about, you know, I kind of think

about what instantly comes up in my, in my head and my body about what I feel grateful for.

So one that comes up again and again and again

for me, which is coming up right now, is today I'm grateful for being clean and sober today.

You know, I think that's, you know, it's always top of my priority list, which is, which is hard

to say being a parent and a husband,

and that has to come first.

But in my life it kind of does, because if I lose sobriety, if I lose the ability to live my life free from drinking drugs,

then everything else falls to pieces. I lose my marriage. I

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