I don’t know if you heard of this thing that the world went through called the Covid Pandemic? But it was a big deal and it sucked. All the meetings in my area were closed and a lot of them went to online versions. They were alright as far as meetings go but as a person that spends most of his at work time on MS Teams meetings and conference calls…the Zoom recovery meetings got real old, real fast. This included my Alumni meetings from my recovery treatment centre in Toronto. I went to Renascent in the Annex of Toronto, which has a wonderful alumni program that allows those of us that have graduated from their program to come back and talk to the guys in the house currently going through the early stages of recovery. It was something I was grateful for while I was in the house and I was excited to be a part of when I graduated. I made a commitment to try to get to one of the bi-monthly meetings on a regular basis. I did this for a few years until the stupid pandemic shut them down too. Yesterday was my first chance to get back to one, it was so great. I am so happy that it worked out and I could get to one again. Hopefully I can get back into that habit and get to them again.

While I was there I met a new comer that is from my area, he’s going to reach out to me as soon as he gets out and comes home. I’m very excited for this lad to get out and come to the groups up here. I hope falls in love with the program and recovery as much as I have. Being able to be a part of a round up and to have gotten to more AA events this year, I’m feeling really stoked and revitalized in my recovery.

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